I was at a trade show in Iowa yesterday and Iowa Biodiesel had a booth. She said MN mandated B2 by June of 2005. I did a little research and this law has it roots back in 2002. The next thing will be everyone in rush hour having the uncontollable urge to eat deep fried foods.!!!

B2 ain't gonna smell like deep-fried food. Consider B2 as an additive that'll will add lubricity, which will be even more important when we get Ultra Low Sulfur fuel next year.

It should be at least B5 with that low sulfur stuff---I think the ULSD will cause more lubricity related failures.

:eek: The "corn lobby" has given it to the people of MN with the ethanol in their gas. It was only a matter of time.

I think it's a great idea especially with ULSD coming. Who would you rather support? The guy on the back of a John Deere or the guy on the back of a camel? Seems like an easy choice to me.

:rant: I quess I remember back when reformulated gas was forced on us in the metro Milwaukee area years ago. It's my opinion that not enough testing was done prior to it's release to make sure that it was compatible with the majority of cars on the road at the time. It was eating parts in carburetors, fuel injection systems, and fuel pumps. The newer cars were improved to handle it, but many older cars required expensive repairs as a result; mileage also dropped off with it's use. Reformulated gas is still detrimental to 2 cycle products that mix gas and oil. Just recently in our area there was a rash of fuel system maladies directly attributed to bad reformulated gas; do you think the oil companies or government regulators volunteered to pay for any repairs? If the new bio-diesel doesn't have any adverse effects on motors or mileage, I'm all for it.

The biggest problem with switching to biodiesel is the cleaning out of the fuel lines and tanks. All the crud in there from the dino fuel gets loosened up and ends up in the fuel filters. We've been running B20 in the Duramax in the summer and it loves it. The tractors have run up to B100 w/o problems. Some of the much older diesels will need to get the tanks cleaned and lines flushed but then you'll want to replace the fuel lines anyway. Got to cut the Bio back to blend and use additives as it really gells up in the cold. The added lubrication is great and should really help out with the ULSD.

I'd rather the money go to the US farmers anyway,
Michael

Guys---these trucks with higher need for lubricity over the older diesels really run better with some blend of Bio--IMHO I think we need it.

I have tried over doing the additives in terms of lubricity adders and Cetane boost and nothing comes as close as just running B20--the truck just runs the smoothest and starts quicker and runs quieter. Remember...additives are not fuel but the bio is but gives the cetane boost and lubricity boost.

Where I work, the University of Iowa has been using a 90/10 blend of Ethanol (gasahol) since the early 80's, it originally would cause gasket problems mainly on the Dodges with the Thermo Quad Carb.
Here of late with the newer fuel injection there has been practicaly zero problems with the blend and since the state gives it a tax break we get it two cents lower than regular,also mileage seems to be comperable.
The local Farm Service place has soydiesel that I have been eyeing for my vw Golf TDI
but have been hesitant to use it mainly cause I don't know the first thing about it.
Also I agree about the earlier comment about the guy on the John Deere vs the camel I believe in keeping my money as close to home as posible and we need to keep as many jobs as possible going here at home.
Merle