Asheville Real Estate Journal
REALTORS®-- If Gas Mileage is important to you andyour clients, check this way to get 40 MPG out...
So you desire 40 miles per gallon(40 !! MPG) ? I have an answer for you, and, it can come from your local restaurant.
North Carolina is fifth among the 50 states in use of biodiesel- And in Asheville, NC this July,Blue Ridge BioFuels opened the only commercial biodiesel pump in Western North Carolina. I asked them about their source for this fuel and discovered it comes from Asheville area restaurants' waste vegetable oil. Good thing about it? It burns cleanly in any diesel engine., " reported Brian Winslett, who "walks the walk" when it comes to being eco-friendly. Brian's goal is to produce 500,000+ gallons a year.
Blue Ridge BioFuels has a two-fold objective:
1) Educate potential users
2) Bring locally produced clean-burning products to Asheville and Western North Carolina.
" I mostly try to ride a bicycle," said Brian Winslett, the almost 30-year-old general director and part owner of Asheville-based Blue Ridge Biofuels Cooperative.
But when he has to drive, he uses the
nonpolluting biodiesel fuel that his company makes from used cooking oil.
What kind of gas mileage?? "Forty(40 ! ) miles to the gallon."
xoxo
BusinessNC.comreports: " Customers bought about 1,000 gallons each week in the first six weeks. Blue Ridge Biofuels gets used cooking oil - most of it free - from 25 restaurants and filters out particles and water. The oil is then heated, and lye and alcohol are added. Every gallon of filtered vegetable oil yields a gallon of biodiesel, and nontoxic glycerin is the only significant byproduct. No engine retrofitting required .
FYI:
1. Biodiesel can also replace heating oil!
2. If you join the boiodiesel coop, you can get a discounted price on the fuel.
3. Blue Ridge has five employees, 100 member-owners and a nine-person board
4.Customers include Warren Wilson College and UNC Asheville.
See my first post on Blue Ridge Biofuels
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Biodeisal? Great report JaneAnn. That sounds like a very interesting concpet. I'm quite interested in how the demand/supply will result. Thanks for posting.
They say wait to buy a small car rumor has it new and used are coming down end of year do to supply being up.
Thank you for sharing and best of luck.Cathy~
Could be good news. I see a number of Mercedes diesel models on the road around Asheville...and a demand for them in the local papers and online ...
Just the other day I took a ride in a neighbor's new, Prius. I was shocked at how fast and especially quiet it was. I'm glad that North Carolina is among the top 5 states to embrace this new green technology.
We have many gas stations that are selling the bio diesel. I drive a diesel but don't know if it is for everyone JaneAnne.