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Feb 13
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Super hurricanes, protracted drought and other weird weather conditions occur regularly which our ancestors haven’t experienced in their lifetime. We all know that this extreme climate change is a result of global warming. Global warming adversely affects the biodiversity of all living things, melts the polar caps and increases the water content of our oceans and streams. So, we see islands disappearing from the face of the earth and the extinction of flora and fauna. The culprit is the burning of fossil fuels that release greenhouse gases. These gases – carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide – snugly encase the earth trapping heat within. We’ve heard it a long time ago but hadn’t taken action.
According to Greenhouse Gas Online, in the US and much of the developed world, 30 percent of carbon dioxide emissions are due to transportation. One third of these emissions are from diesel engines – buses, delivery trucks and semi-trailer trucks.
The beginnings of the rapid accumulation of man-made greenhouse gas is traced in the early 20th century when the trucking industry begun as the more efficient way of transporting agricultural products instead of by rail. Diesel fuels sent out obnoxious fumes of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide. This has gone unabated for the past 100 years accumulating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. As we feel it today, the consequence had been a warmer world adversely affecting every type of living thing in the planet.
When Rudolf Diesel first invented the prototype diesel engine, he experimented with vegetable oils to fuel his invention. But when trucks were finally invented, the fuel was derived from a refined form of gasoline aptly named diesel. In the 1920′s and 30′s, bio-diesels had already been used in several countries and gradually became an alternative source of fuel.
Using bio-diesels in trucks has an immense impact on the environment and is easy on the pocket. Bio-diesels commonly use vegetable oil such as soy or rapeseed oil and sometimes animal oil. Oil from restaurants used to fry your French fries and other foods can be recycled to manufacture bio-diesels. When used on your diesel engine, it increases the lubricity of your fuel and doesn’t give off soot and greenhouse gas. It isn’t only renewable but biodegradable too.
In 2000, Wang and Lyons of the University of West Virginia made a study comparing the emissions of trucks that run on bio-diesel and trucks on pure petroleum diesel. The result remarkably proved that trucks on bio-diesels have a much lower particulate matter, lower hydrocarbon and carbon monoxide emissions as compared to the trucks on petrol fuel.
It is estimated that 20 pounds of carbon dioxide is produced from a gallon of gasoline burned. If 12,000 gallons is used per year by a fleet of trucks belonging to a trucking company that would amount to 240,000 pounds of carbon dioxide released in the atmosphere. Most trucking companies utilize petrol diesel year after year, and the poor planet gets warmer faster as more greenhouse gases accumulate and environmental disasters happen regularly. But the reverse can happen. Imagine the impact – a cleaner and a life supporting and sustaining earth – if all trucking companies opt to use bio-diesels.
We’ve all loathed trucks using petrol for its noise and fumes. Trucks on bio-diesel smell much better. It is a pleasant surprise to the nose and healthier for those with respiratory diseases. Moreover, bio-diesels don’t contain sulfur and dramatically reduce acid rain. Health wise, bio-diesels lack toxic and carcinogenic aromatic chemicals, which have a tendency to increase cancer cases over time. Because trucks on bio-diesel move less noisily, they are sweet on the ears too.
There are claims that trucks on bio-diesel aren’t fast enough. But, studies show bio-diesel on their engines doesn’t make them slower and inefficient. These studies show no significant increase or decrease in fuel mileages when these trucks do their necessary errands of transporting food, people and furniture anywhere. What’s more, bio-diesels naturally protect the engines and save money on maintenance.
Convinced that the best way to a healthier earth, several trucking companies run exclusively on bio-diesels. The fleet of trucks of Serenity Movers is fueled by bio-diesels and travels 55,000 miles per year transporting furniture efficiently, safely, sweetly and serenely.
If all trucking companies use bio-diesel as the best option we’ll see a world with lesser catastrophic hurricanes and other drastic climate changes. Global warming somehow will halt. We’ll make the world a more sustainable place for our children and for future generations. Economically, we’ll stop depending on gasoline and be free from the dictates of oil rich nations. We’ll save money and enjoy our life too. And our farmers will get a better share from the switch.
If we want this kind of renewable and healthier world, let’s take action. Let’s choose trucking services running exclusively on bio-diesels.
Lillian Marie Lauran writes on behalf of NY moving company Serenity Movers. Moving soon? – look for GREEN NY movers. Choose Serenity Movers New York.
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