Why “The Cost of Fuel Will Continue to Rise” is a Lie – And Why You Must Start Making Biofuel

July 9, 2011 By

Article by Mike Copinger

It seems like every day now I read or here somewhere some luminary saying that no matter what the cost of fuel will continue to rise. The fact is that’s a lie. Let me qualify that; I can say for certain that the cost of fuel does not have to rise, it’s a choice.

Since the summer the fuel you buy at the pump whether gasoline or diesel is blended 5% with biofuel – ethanol in the case of gasoline and biodiesel in the case of diesel. As part of the governments plan this will be progressively increased over the coming years to 20%.

Simply put that means that 20% of the fuel that goes into your tank will not be dependant on the price of fossil oil. But will that mean that the cost of the fuel you put in your tank goes down by 20%. Sadly no. In fact you’ll be lucky if it just stays the same.

Why? After all biofuel is cheap and easy to make. It can be made locally from local waste products removing transportation costs and waste processing costs. Duty on biofuel is discounted – so why won’t the price of fuel go down like it should?

Your government has a vested interest in maintaining the cost of fuel – it is one of the highest reliable tax earners in the governments arsenal. They know that after a century of promoting private car ownership and use they have created a captive market of fuel users. We have followed their advice and built our career choices, social lives and family lives around the automobile and the fuel it runs on.

Fuel Duty in the UK is £0.5035 per litre (2.2890/imperial gal or £1.91/US gal). Value Added Tax (VAT), currently at 17.5%, is also charged on the price of the fuel and on the duty. At a pump price of 128.8p/litre (typical for diesel as at May 2008), this would put the combined tax at 69.53p/litre, or approximately USD.20 per US gallon. Thus without tax, the retail price would be 59.26p per litre, making a combined tax rate of 117%. Fuel taxes in the United States vary by state. For the first quarter of 2008, the average state gasoline tax was 28.6 cents per US gallon, plus 18.4 cents per US gallon federal tax making the total 47 cents per US gallon (56 ¢/imperial gal; 12.4 ¢/L). For diesel, the average state tax is 29.2 cents per US gallon plus an additional 24.4 cents per US gallon federal tax making the total 53.6 cents US per gallon (64.3¢ / imperial gal; 14.2 ¢/L).

Why else do you imagine with two viable, long range performance electric cars now available from two manufacturers (the UK Lightning and the US Tesla) that the government hasn’t leapt into action to promote the technologies they have developed, to subsidise their manufacture to ensure that we all drive clean green machines? Because with your garage roof covered in solar cells and a usable electric car in the garage you don’t have to pay them a bean!

So instead the government will continue to charge up to 117% tax on fuel – regardless of what actually goes into your tank.

Fortunately whatever side of the Atlantic you are on there IS something you can do about it. You can make biodiesel at home, you can even make ethanol at home. All the equipment you need can be purchased or assembled from £200/0 upwards, the consumable supplies easily ordered online and the process in each case takes no more than a couple of hours in the weekend. The government even sanctions home production tax free (because they know most people won’t bother).

However unless you make biodiesel or make ethanol at home you are surrendering your self to a future or spiralling fuel costs, 85% of which will be government tax.

And consider this; the average cost of homemade biodiesel and ethanol is around £1/ per gallon, which if you do some simple napkin maths means Joe Average could easily save £2000 / 00 per year, every year, and that’s just the average value.

About the Author

Mike is an expert in the field of alternative energy. He runs http://www.ultimate-biodiesel-guide.com providing easy access to biofuels for the average man on the street.

Question by gladys_dy: how do you make biofuel from malunggay plant?

what part of the plant will it come from? and what is the process?

Best answer:

Answer by Brigitte H
Biofuel is made from seed oil of malunggay plant, Moringa oleifera:
see Biofuel source

http://www.stuartxchange.org/Malunggay.html

Biofuel Production:

http://www.humboldt.edu/~ccat/biodiesel/makingbiodiesel/celesteSP2001/makebiod.pdf

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/biomass/pdfs/biofuel_production.pdf

New Biofuel Manufacturing Process

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/517307/new_biofuel_manufacturing_process_could.html?cat=3

PRODUCTION OF BIODIESEL FROM PERENNIALS

http://www.stuartxchange.org/Malunggay.html

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Flex Fuel Vehicles to Drive Brazilian Biofuel Demand

June 28, 2011 By

Article by RNCOS E-Services Pvt. Ltd.

Brazil has led the world by sustainable increase in biofuel production for more than 30 years. The country is emerging as the world leader in advanced, sustainable biofuel investments, along with new technologies from the private sector partners in the US and EU. According to our research report “Global Biofuel Market Analysis”, ethanol demand will increase in the Brazilian market with the rising number of Flex Fuel Vehicles (FFVs) on the roads. The number of FFVs is considered a leading indicator of potential ethanol demand as almost half of the ethanol used in Brazil is pumped straight into the tanks of those vehicles. Ethanol demand is projected to grow at a CAGR of around 7% during 2010-2013.

Our research has found that Brazil is the second largest ethanol producer in the world. With the government support, large sugarcane crops and high sales taxes on gasoline, the country will see an upsurge in the ethanol industry. Besides, the rising use of ethanol in transportation will raise ethanol production, which is projected to grow at a CAGR of around 6% during 2010-2013. We have also found that Brazil is one of the largest ethanol exporters in the world due to its cost-efficient production. The country has trade with big countries like the US, China and India.

Our team of experts has found that biodiesel demand in Brazil has been consistently rising for the past few years. In 2008, biodiesel demand rose by around 167%. The blend ratio increased to 4% in 2009 that raised biodiesel demand by around 39% against the previous year. In 2010, the mandatory blend ratio for biodiesel has increased by one percentage point which is expected to raise biodiesel demand during 2010-2013.

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Biofuels is expected to replace 27% transportation fuel in 2050

June 6, 2011 By

Article by Lixiao

The G8 group of energy minister, recently submitted a report that, by 2050 biofuels could meet the transport fuels demand 27%. The report also warned that to achieve this level, the application of new technology to improve crops, algae and other organic substances into energy efficiency. The international energy agency, sustainable energy policy director bo’s BoDiczfalusy) can be method Lucy (, said: “in the long run, fossil fuel and the cost difference between biofuels will narrow, we even say, biofuels solutions will become more economy.” Bo • dean can method, points out that Lucy the next 40 years earlier, biofuel demand will come from developed countries, in 2050, close to 70% of the consumer demand will come from China, India, Brazil and other developing countries.In traditional fossil energy exhausting, human beings are facing with the environmental pollution increased cases, countries in the world to actively seek to develop renewable energy. Biofuels, especially biofuels, can use a broad agricultural production material, not only as scraps can be directly replace a vehicle fuel, but also can reduce carbon emissions, in the new energy industry to accelerate the development of today, biofuels by global countries value, become “to be bestowed favor on newly”.

Biofuels is through the biological resources of fuel ethanol and production of biodiesel, can replace obtained by gasoline and diesel oil, development and utilization of renewable energy is an important direction. By the world petroleum resource, price, environmental protection and global climate change impacts, since the 1970s, many countries pay more attention to the development of biofuels, and have achieved remarkable results. China biofuel development also made great achievements, especially grain as raw materials of the fuel ethanol production, and has initially formed the scale.Nonetheless, China’s biofuels industry is still at the initial stage of development, still have a long way to go. But, the United States, Brazil and other countries of the biofuels industry development has been relatively mature, using biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, biological butanol substitute partly petroleum-based gasoline or diesel has become America’s state policy. American targets is by 2025 through the use of biofuels oil imports from the Middle East, an alternative to the 75%.

Brazil is the world’s leading producer of biofuels, the sugar cane crops for produce the country not half above 40% of diesel transportation fuels. In the United States, grain crop 15% for the production of the diesel transport fuels about 2%, ethanol production to faster speed in growth. According to estimation, Brazil and the United States is the production of ethanol and gasoline costs already is below the current. The 2007 ~ 2011 Brazilian oil companies from investing in renewable fuels will be more than 3 billion dollars.Spain in 2005 made renewable energy plan, 2010 biofuels will total fuel consumption 5.83%. According to plan, Spain late 2010 become the largest producer of biofuel.Biofuels are clean energy, biofuels on economic development, and promote the sustainable development of energy alternative, control urban air pollution has important strategic significance. For many oil companies in the gulf of Mexico oil leakage accident, the environmental impact of prompting they will look to biofuels.

Can see, the world for biofuels value degree intensified, many countries have will biofuels industry development ascend to a very high level. Because the world food crisis increasingly serious, biofuels long-term development potential is to use non-food raw materials, including agriculture, cities and forestry waste, and rich in cellulose high growth of energy crops such as seasons forage to ease biofuels and grain competition.

In the future development of the new energy and biofuels will gradually highlights, to biofuels application will be much more than just the tip of the iceberg for now. Biofuels will have greater stage in the global energy conservation and emission reduction, and low carbon economy road on the way, will play more and more important role.

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Question by Hawra: Biofuel ??

how can biofuels compete with food ??
i mean they are both made using the same resources i know that producind biofuels will decrease the land used for planting food But what else ??

and if you thiis that biology is not the right Category for this essue tell me where it will fit

and thanx

Best answer:

Answer by Zombie Killer
That’s why we need to legalize hemp for industrial use. No need to use corn and wheat for fuels when hemp could do it all.

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How Biofuels Are Moving Into Top Status As An Alternative Fuel Source

September 25, 2010 By

Biofuels are made by taking matter and making it into fuel. I recently was watching dirty jobs on the discovery channel and saw an Isuzu pick up truck running on bio diesel. Now I thought to myself how in the world and what is bio diesel. Bio diesel is the oil from fryers like a restaurants deep fryer. The makers will take gallons of used vegetable oil and peanut oil basically any fryers oil and use them to make bio diesel. It is a long process but it only cost about 55 cents a gallon and gets about 40 mpg depending on the vehicle. I can’t exactly remember how it was made but there was a chemical reaction with the methanol that made all the sludge stick to the bottom of the gallon and after that you have bio diesel.


Even though the government still has a long way to go to get these alternative fuels many Americans have already learned the chemistry to producing these fuels. A recent study by a Pacific Northwest university said that they cannot find a way to make the fuel as good as gas made from oil. Gas will only go so far but the bio diesel will go a long way because it is cheap to make and isn’t hard to convert motors to run on them they just have to already be a diesel motor.


Biofuels are made by using matter from the environment to make a usable fuel to burn. These biofuels better to use then the fossil fuels that we burn every day. The bio fuels need to be able to use in cars or vehicles because that is where most of out fossil fuels go to. They need to make a way or fuel that can run in any car and can make it at a very cheap rate.


Even though it has a long way to go till everyone is using these there are still a few people in the United States who have these bio fuel labs in the garages at home. The study done up north by a university still cannot find out why they can’t make a small amount of bio fuel and that is because you don’t have the right properties. You are probably trying to use something with no significant bio value at all.


Even though the oil has been though in the stock exchange does not mean that we Americans cannot make something that can be used as an every day alternative, dropping all the oils prices are not going to do it because then people will continue to use them. The people just need to take the matter into their own hands and make something that can be used every day as a fossil fuel alternative. It isn’t hard people are already using bio diesel every day. Nothing stopping them from making their own. The government knows how to make these fuels they just don’t want to because they want to keep stealing all our money even though they are the ones printing the money.

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