WILMINGTON -- If you're tired of paying at the pump, Cape Fear Community College may have come up with a way to cut some of the costs and help the environment at the same time.
Made right in the college's labs by faculty and students, the bio-fuel burns cleaner than diesel.
Representatives say it can also get the same gas mileage for your car as B20, the special blend of 20 percent bio-diesel and 80 percent petroleum diesel.
CFCC lead instructor Cal Geary said, "Our trucks that we have here at the school, we burn one gallon per cylinder, per hour. So if you've got a six cylinder, you're going to put six gallons in that engine, regardless. And it's going to be the same thing with bio-fuel. It's just going to lubricate the engine better."
That also means fewer oil changes. The oil for the fuel is recycled from places like fast food restaurants.
Representatives say the college plans to test the fuel itself by putting it into its own vehicles.
Really innovative.
Hope they don't use the fuel to power anything that drives on the roads of NC or they should be paying fuel taxes.
That's what they did to the guy in Charlotte!
In a fine example of innovation and self-reliance, he made and used 1500 gallons of bio-diesel. Unfortunately, it became a local news story and it wasn't long before the state came in and demanded the fuel tax he would have paid if he had purchased it!
I'll be retiring in a few years, and leaving North Carolina is probably going to be a very easy decision...
See ya!
Good riddance! Take some with you!
Riddance
Riddance –noun 1. the act or fact of clearing away or out, as anything undesirable.
2. relief or deliverance from something.
—Idiom 3. good riddance, a welcome relief or deliverance from something: He's gone, and good riddance!
I think what you are saying is you educated, smart people need to go away... you are making us look dumber than ever and take your smart stuff (bio-diesel) with you so we can sit here and be stupid with other stupid people and complain. Hold on to your stupid, here come the smart people with their thoughful, educated, world-saving, bio-diesel. Now lets go throw a big pile of crap on the side of River rd and shoot at it.
Now grow a brain and use it.
yew yankee
we dont take kindley to peple like u cummin here down south where things was always gud an bringin your fancy new fangled ideal like thinkin about stuff. if you dont LIKE it... you can GEDDOUT!!!!11111111111
Dang!
Dang! poop really multiplies! See, it spoke!
Go get a life. If you were not up someone else's behind so much you're life might improve. Go rag someone else you troll.
riddance
My comment was for the person leaving N.C. when they retire.That's what reply means.I think it's great if you make your own bio-diesl. Pay attention before you say something. You can pack your stuff and leave with them if you want.I promise, YOU WILL NOT BE MISSED!
heck yeah cobymobi
IF THEM THINKIN YANKEES DONT LIKE IT.. THEY CAN GEDDOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AN FURTHUREMORE, THEY CAN.. GEDDOUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YANKEES!
Biodiesel
If you had read the article it will be used in the trucks . Before you make a comment, you should really read the article first.
Carbon waste
There is nothing in the article that states that they will NOT use the trucks on the roads of NC. If you had read the article and what I said, then you would have realized that and conserved some carbon by not wasting your hot air and electrons responding to something that just makes you look foolish.