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North Dakota Rejects Ethanol Mandate
7 February 2005
AP. As a counterpoint to the Minnesota Senate’s passage of an E20 mandate (earlier post), North Dakota's Senate voted down a bill that would have mandated E10 to be offered in all ND service stations.
Aside from the ethanol mandate, the bill included a $20 million alternative fuels development program, along with investment subsidies for ethanol, hydrogen fuel cells, wind turbines and biodiesel, which is diesel fuel mixed with soybean oil.
February 7, 2005 in Ethanol | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (1)
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Posted by: Steve Spence | February 08, 2005 at 03:44 AM
Yes. That’s a quote from the AP piece.
Posted by: Mike | February 08, 2005 at 07:01 AM
further evidence that AP is a group of morons
Posted by: doug | March 31, 2006 at 12:24 PM
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Biodiesel is NOT diesel mixed with soybean oil, Biodiesel is a substitute for diesel made from animal and vegetable fats and oils reacted with NaOH (or KOH), and Methanol (or Ethanol).
There is no soybean or any other oil in biodiesel, it is the esters of the oil left after the glycerin has been removed through transesterification.
Biodiesel is often blended with diesel, and referred to, for example, B20, meaning 20% biodiesel and 80% diesel, but that is not biodiesel, it's a diesel/biodiesel blend.