Benefits of Bio-Diesel--Martin Eagle Oil Company

2004 -- 25 million gallons
2003 -- 20 million gallons
2002 -- 15 million gallons
2001 -- 5 million gallons
2000 -- 2 million gallons
1999 -- 500,000 gallons

2005 - 80 Million Gallons
2006 - 200 Million gallons
2007 - 600 Million gallons
2008 - 1.5 Billion gallons

And the use of Bio-diesel is growing exponentially. For example in Colorado there is a 1 company producing 10 Million gallons a year, and expanding to 15 Million gallons a year as soon as they complete the addition of another processing plant. One prediction for sales volume is as follows:

Most commercially available Bio-diesel will be a blend of B20 (20% Bio-diesel).

Bio-diesel has actually been around for around 100 years but the cheap availability of Petroleum fuel has made it the choice for Diesel fuel. But now that petro-diesel prices have risen to such a high level, it's becoming affordable to use Bio-diesel. And it's becoming very popular in MANY countries.

A History of Bio-diesel –

By now you've no doubt been hearing about Bio-diesel from your friends, or family, or maybe Television, newspapers, the Internet etc. Bio-diesel is in a large growth stage right now because of the rising costs of Petroleum based fuels, the emissions from petroleum-based fuels, the realization that our oil reserves wont last forever, etc.

Here are some sales volume estimates for the US from the National Bio-diesel board -