why dont we use bio fuel to fuel cars and homes,etc?

Question

If biofuel is more efficient and cleaner and better for the environment and cheaper why dont we use it instead of regular oil?

Answer 1

Are you talking about biodiesel? If so then lets begin. Why are you people so stuck on making BIO fuel? Veggie oil needs NO alteration! I can burn veggie oil clean with NO remnants. This is used veggie oil simply filtered. Go to youtube and watch it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkWAIK5fzqc
If this link doesnt work just go to youtube and search for High Temperature Furnace. 2 vids should come up. My volcano is in the title. These vids show used filtered veggie oil melting down a stainless steel muffler pipe. If you cant see that this stuff burns like mad, I dont know what to tell you. This is NOT biodiesel. Just straight used veggie oil. Converting veggie oil to biodiesel costs time and money. My process goes straight from the frying pan into the fire. Don't mean to sound so straight forward, but making biodiesel is great for diesel engines but for heating purposes is a complete waste of time.

Answer 2

Because ethanol and biofuels use more energy to make than they release. Think about it......
A biofuel has to be processed in a processing plant. That takes energy.
The material (grain, plant, whatever) has to be harvested by machines (that run on diesel). They have to be grown in fields. The fields have to be worked by machines (tractors that run on diesel). The fertilizers the fields are fertilized with take a tremendous amount of energy to produce. It takes a lot of petroleum to produce inorganic fertilizer.
If ethanol was the answer, farmers would be using ethanol to run their grain dryers. They don't, and it isn't.
If you've bought gasoline lately, it's expensive, but whiskey's about $54 a gallon. Ethanol's not the answer.
If biodiesel was the answer, farmers would be using it to power their tractors and combines. They don't, and it isn't.
Basically we're screwed. We won't be able to use the vast amounts of energy that we always have been able to use. That's going to change our lifestyles big time.

Answer 3

It's cleaner, but it's not clean. Burning of ANY biomaterials still results in generation of carbon dioxide, so that's not going to do much against global warming.

Answer 4

they're more expensive than coal and other fossil fuels.

until we're using renewable resources to derive hydrogen or ethanol or bio fuel, we won't see a major shift in usage.