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Powerful Biodegradable Fuel
Biodiesel is a powerful biodegradable fuel that comes from fats, including used cooking grease from animal or vegetable oils. Biodiesel is renewable, safer for the planet and widely available to consumers, making it a particularly eco-friendly resource. At Baker Commodities, we create biofuel at our biodiesel processing plant and provide rendered fat ingredients to biodiesel processing plants around the world.
NEW LEAF BIOFUEL
In California, Baker Commodities has a biodiesel production company called New Leaf Biofuel, which processes used cooking oil from more than a thousand local restaurants, hotels, schools, hospitals, casinos and other industrial kitchens throughout the state.
New Leaf Biofuel provides Southern California communities with an environmentally sound vehicle fuel source, produced from renewable or recycled resources at a reputable biodiesel processing plant. They make high-quality biodiesel, which fuels diesel vehicles with little or no conversion, from waste cooking oil collected from area restaurants.
GREENHOUSE GASES
In addition to using renewable energy sources, biofuel also reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Once the finished product is pumped out into holding tanks, it is then sold to local fleets and distributors. These fleets use biodiesel blended with diesel in their engines, which directly displaces diesel fuel usage, thus reducing greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions by up to 80% and allowing everyone to breathe a little easier!
FUN FACTS ABOUT BIOFUELS
Biofuel is a particularly powerful product. Here are a few facts about it:
- About 1 billion gallons of biodiesel are produced annually.
- Biodiesel is added to petroleum-based diesel to reduce emissions and improve engine life.
- Biodiesel lowers particulate matter by 47%, reduces smog and makes our air healthier to breathe.
- Biodiesel reduces hydrocarbon emissions by 67 percent.
- Biodiesel reduces lifecycle greenhouse gases by 86%.
- For every unit of fossil energy it takes to produce biodiesel, 5.5 units of renewable energy are returned, the best of any U.S. fuel.
- Generates at least $3 billion for the U.S. economy rather than spending on foreign oil
- Global biofuels production cuts consumption of crude oil by 1 million barrels a day.
- Most gasoline & diesel fuels in North America and Europe are blended with biofuel.
- The U.S. biodiesel industry supports 31,000 green jobs.