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Biofuels - A Way To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

Biofuels are fuels that are produced from biological sources such as trees, plants or micro-organisms. They are carbon neutral, because they do not result in fossil carbon being released into the atmosphere. All of the carbon contained in a biofuel was absorbed from the atmosphere by photosynthesis in plants, just a few months or years earlier. This means that when you burn a biofuel, you simply release the carbon back into the atmosphere, and have no overall effect on atmospheric CO2 levels. Read More

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The Complete Guide to Using Vegetable Oil as an Alternative Fuel

The Passion, the People, And the Politics of the Next Renewable Fuel

Biodiesel: Growing A New Energy Economy

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Biofuels - A Way To Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

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