Biodiesel Rulez!!! [ARCHIVED]

[RafRaf]

share ko lang... found an add on estrol kasi...



This write-up struck me... can 2% blend really do this?

"What are the results from the 2% blend?

Sustained use of this blend increases mileage from 10% - 40%, boosts engine power and acceleration, and reduces harmful emissions up to 80%. After around five months use, the need for change oil will be reduced to once every 25,000 kilometers."

[garyq]

yung increase mileage by 10-40% I seriously doubt it. To be upfront hindi ko ito nakita sa mga studies that Senbel presented to me (2 years ago) when I started handling Estrol. Also wala akong data nakikita sa Net to support this. Yung harmful emissions and prolonging engine life, ok tama. Boost engine power and acceleration, depends on the engine BUT side effects lang ito. Reduced harmful emissions is the No.1 good effect of using BD My2cents.

[MadMax]

Senate committees OK 3 energy bills

April 20, 2006
Updated 02:13am (Mla time)
Philip C. Tubeza Juliet Labog-Javellana
Inquirer

AS WORLD crude prices soared to new record highs, the Senate moved closer to approving a measure mandating the use of locally produced fuel in the transport sector.

Three Senate committees -- energy, agriculture and food, and finance -- approved Senate Bill No. 2226, the proposed Biofuels Act of 2006, which aims to reduce the country's dependence on imported oil by tapping biofuels like those obtained from plants and animals.

The bill seeks to establish the Philippine Biofuel Board (PBB) to implement the Philippine Biofuel Program, including the setting of standards for biofuels and biofuel-blended gasoline and diesel.

Twenty senators signed Committee Report No. 55 which will be up for approval by the plenary when session resumes next month, including Senators Miriam Santiago and Manuel Villar, chairs of the energy and finance committees respectively. Senator Rodolfo Biazon signed the report on behalf of food and agriculture committee chair Senator Ramon Magsaysay Jr.

The Arroyo administration is also scrambling to come up with contingency measures to mitigate the impact of rising oil prices on Filipino consumers.

"That's why it's important that we push for our programs in search of other sources of energy like coco bio-diesel, ethanol from sugar, LPG, compressed natural gas, windmills and others," President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said yesterday at a new housing project for soldiers near Fort Bonifacio in Makati.

Crude oil futures surged to fresh record highs on global markets yesterday amid growing fears of a possible military conflict between the United States and Iran.

The benchmark May contract for light sweet crude hit a closing high of $71.35 a barrel and traded as high as $71.60 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, an all-time record.

That crushed the record of $70.85 a barrel last Aug. 30 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged US oil operations in the Gulf of Mexico.

Brent crude hits $72.64

The price of Brent North Sea crude oil also hit records in London as the market feared that an attack on Iran could lead to a disruption of its oil exports. The June contract for Brent traded as high as $72.64 a barrel, an all-time record, before settling at $72.51.

Adjusted for inflation, current oil prices remain below levels reached after the 1979 Iranian revolution when they surged to upward of $80 a barrel in today's money.

Washington has accused Iran, the world's fourth-biggest crude producer, of working secretly to build nuclear weapons under cover of a nuclear energy program. The US government has declined to rule out possible military action as an option.

Global Insight analyst Simon Wardell said prices could rocket to above $150 a barrel if Iran retaliated to any US attack by disrupting oil shipping off its coastline.

Because its shores line the narrow Straits of Hormuz, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, Iran could quickly hit both military and commercial shipping with missiles launched from land, air or sea as well as cripple maritime traffic with mines or sunken ships, analysts say.

Greenhouse gases

The Senate bill cited three reasons for tapping into indigenous and renewable sources of fuel: To reduce the country's dependence on imported oil, to mitigate toxic and greenhouse gas emissions and to increase rural employment and income.

The measure seeks to order the mandatory use of alternative fuels like bio-ethanol, bio-diesel, natural gas, electricity, hydrogen and automotive LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) on vehicles instead of gasoline and diesel.

It will involve the use of bio-ethanol produced from sugarcane and biomass such as animal, municipal or industrial wastes and bio-diesel or fatty acid methyl ester derived from vegetable oils or animal fats.

The bill provides that a minimum of 1 percent bio-diesel shall be blended in all diesel engine fuels sold in the country immediately after the enactment of the Biofuels Act into law and 2 percent within two years of the law's implementation.

The PBB shall be empowered to increase the percentage up to 10 percent within four years after reviewing the viability of the biofuels program and availability of sources.

Tax incentives will be given to encourage the production and distribution of biofuels. To ensure the mandatory use of biofuels, the bill provides for a penalty of three months to one year imprisonment and a fine of P50,000 to P300,000 for those found violating the law.

In the House of Representatives, Majority Leader Prospero Nograles asked the Senate to give priority to the approval of House Bill No. 4629, the proposed Biofuels Act of 2005, which would help make the country self-reliant in the fuel sector.

In a statement, Nograles said the bill had long been approved by the House after Ms Arroyo certified it as urgent, "and yet the Senate is seemingly just sitting on it."

Take control of Petron

Warning of an imminent "economic meltdown" due to soaring world oil prices, Cebu Representative Antonio Cuenco called on government to take back control of Petron Corp. and to "strongly intervene" in setting oil prices in the country.

The government sold 40 percent of Petron to oil giant Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco) in 1994.

"The smaller oil players [have] dismally failed in offering a more competitive pricing mechanism through the years that would have leveled the playing field long ago as envisioned by the Oil Deregulation Law," Cuenco said.

Cuenco, chair of the House committee on foreign affairs, also said that the country needed to "adopt a stronger state intervention in the pricing of oil prices and its distribution in the domestic scene."

"Among other things, we need to immediately introduce amendments in the Oil Deregulation Law which has failed to address vital reforms that should have been long achieved so that the Filipino masses would not be heavily burdened every time (oil-exporting) countries cough a hike to fatten further their bloated coffers," he said in a statement.

Cuenco likened the administration's energy-saving proposals to "using a spoon to paddle our way out of the crisis rather than finding a bigger oar."

Summer of discontent

Anakpawis party-list Rep. Crispin Beltran said the impact of the administration tax measures last week and soaring oil prices would lead to a "summer of discontent," particularly among those already mired in poverty.

Aside from programs which would help ease the impact of high oil prices on the local economy, Ms Arroyo said she was expanding her pro-poor programs, including making cheaper medicine available all over the country.

Ms Arroyo reiterated her earlier announcement that the administration was able to set up more than 5,000 drug stores selling the most commonly used medicines at 2001 price levels. With a report from Agence France-Presse

Editor's note: Re-posts to clarify headline.

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[Skywalker]

May data ba ang Estrol to prove the 20% increase in mileage?

I use biodiesel also, pero different brand, and I only observed a very minimal increase of mileage pero hindi 20% or even 10%.

[RafRaf]

Biodiesel in the news again (together with other alternative fuels)... specially with the constant increase in oil. Namigay nga ako ng biodiesel flyers yesterday sa subdivision namin eh. Sana maging open minded yung mga nagbigyan ko.

[Djerms]

Sa akin walang pinagbago sa mileage ng trooper ko. Pero ok talaga ang naging response ng engine ko. And I get peace of mind knowing that im giving my engine enough lubrication.

Share ko lang.

[falken]

Biodiesel doesn't improve your mileage that much, the major benefit is improved emissions and better engine response.

[aaron drin]

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may Biodiesel na ba dito sa gensan? where? d pa ako nakatry ng BD, wala kasi ako mabilhan eh.

[rsnald]

Sa akin walang pinagbago sa mileage ng trooper ko. Pero ok talaga ang naging response ng engine ko. And I get peace of mind knowing that im giving my engine enough lubrication.

Share ko lang.

clarify ko lang 'tong issue na 'to. ang nalulubricate daw ng biodiesel is not the engine itself.. but the fuel injectors. by the time na makarating sa loob ng combustion chamber yung fuel, atomized na sya and in a split second, combusted na sya during the compression stroke of the engine. so hindi talaga yung engine pistons ang nalulubricate but the parts of the engine where the fuel passes thru before reaching the combustion chamber, w/c in this case is the fuel pump. yan ang contention ng ilang biodiesel users sa mga forums. ang isa pang sinasabi nila na beneficial effect is that the fuel injector tips are not fouled easily if you use biodiesel. so theoretically, less frequent ang calibration or change of fuel injector tips. just my 2 sentimos ;)

[Psalm136:2]

meron... nung DOE fuel economy run back in 2004 or 2003 yata(?), a crosswind manual tranny was loaded with B100. Senbel yata nagvolunteer nung unit. But it was a one time test run only. Forgot the fuel mileage they got.

Nung nagpi-pilot test pa lang kami, we also loaded B100 in our mitsubishi L300 FB van... I was able to test drive it and it ran very well until it conked out one day. Turns out the fuel injectors got clogged. We were not yet aware then of the specifications of B100 (that was back in 2001).

Sir based on your experience, is it really feasible to use B100?