Letter: Golden Pen Award: Biodiesel offers wealth of advantages

Letter: Golden Pen Award: Biodiesel offers wealth of advantages
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
... Biodiesel can be made from a variety of crops that can be easily grown in Montana. Many farm communities around the country are ...

Fossil fuels are going the way of the dinosaur. We all know it is just a matter of time before the reserves run dry. Maybe huge new deposits will be found, supplying us for another 500 years. Then again, why stay in a rut of dependence on foreigners?

With today's technology and current fuel prices, renewable fuels are becoming more and more appealing. Biodiesel can be made from a variety of crops that can be easily grown in Montana. Many farm communities around the country are implementing processors in co-ops to produce large batches of biodiesel.

Biodiesel can also be made in small batches with do-it-yourself sized processors. There are private citizens throughout the world, already making their own biodiesel with used cooking oil from restaurants. The only modification most diesel engines need is synthetic fuel line.

It's time we stop paying exorbitant prices at the pumps. It's time for big oil to stop reporting record profits every quarter. It's time we bring money back into the local community with locally grown renewable fuels.

Anyone interested can briefly research biodiesel and find it is not just an alternative to fossil fuels - it's an opportunity for the little guy to compete with big business. As Montanans, let's lead the nation.

Let us be known for starting a new era of American self-reliance. Let us get off our foreign oil fix. Let us organize and embrace the future.

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