Biodiesel Offers Extensive Benefits*
- Renewable energy
- Environmentally friendly
- Contains no sulfur
- Displaces imported petroleum
*Source: USDA, EPA, EIA
Biodiesel Performs*
- Increased lubricity extends engine injector life
- Superior engine performance compared to other alternative fuels
- Unmodified diesel engines can burn biodiesel
- No specialized service or training needed for engines
- Approved by major motor manufacturers
*Source: EPA, USDA
Biodiesel Reduces Emissions
Biodiesel meets EPA Health Effects
Testing Under the Clean Air Act*
- Carbon monoxide
- 48 percent lower than diesel
- Particulate matter
- 47 percent lower than diesel
- Hydrocarbons
- 67 percent lower than diesel
*Source: EPA
Biodiesel Makes Sense Economically*
- Creates additional value-added markets for agriculture
- Enhances economic development
- Highest energy balance – units of energy produced for one unit of energy consumed
- Soy biodiesel 3.24 units produced
- Ethanol 1.35 units produced
- Petroleum .88 units produced
*Source: USDA
Biodiesel Fills Increasing Energy Needs*
- Annual U.S. demand for diesel is
55 billion gallons with annual
market growth of 5 percent** - If biodiesel was used in 2 percent of all diesel fuel, 1 billion gallons would be needed
*Source: Frazier Barnes & Association, LLC feasibility study conducted for Western Iowa Energy
**Source: Energy Information Administration
Biodiesel Uses
- MaritimeTrucking
- Home heating
- Agricultural
- Construction
- Municipalities
- Military
- School Buses