Following a recent article in the LA Weekly, which made alternative fuel and electric cars look very cool, I started some web research of my own. Wow, there is a lot out there that makes it look like we could drive a lot greener then we do, pollute less, and stop sucking on the tit of the big oil companies who just showed record profits at our expense, sounds cool to me. The thing that intrigued me the most was a co-op in LA that sells Biodiesel that can power any non-modified modern diesel car. So I’m in hyper drive with intrigue, and I’m interested in knowing what others know about Biodiesel or the Co-op here in LA LA Land. If anyone is using the stuff can you explain more about it?
Note: most of the answers I have received so far don’t go beyond the minimal web research I’ve done following reading the Article mentioned above, but thanks anyway. I just discovered that it is commercially available NOW here in LA, too cool. Soooo…what I’m looking for are answers form people that are actually driving biodiesel powered cars, and their experience with it, so that I can decide if it is the right choice for me or not.

I need to know how these alternate fuels compare and differ. Like which works better and stuff.. please help me with this. I don’t get any of it at all!

I’m thinking about making my own biodiesel to power a diesel car I might buy in the near future, but I need to know what I need to make it, and how much it will cost. If anyone can please speak up! Oh btw it probably be an old 1980′s Mercedes-Benz 300D or equivilant.

What I’m looking for is someone that makes it for their own consumption.

Okay, the 2005 Jetta TDI is a Pumpe Duse rather than the post 2003 models. If it cannot run on biodiesel what needs to be changes like fuel lines and alike. Thank you in advance.

I am a senior at Heritage High School, and im the first person/group to use Skype as a learning tool to educate other states and schools about the biodiesel program we have here at Heritage. The problem im having (besides planning this whole thing) is finding people to donate used cooking oil for us to use for our presentations. We are going to be driving across the country to several schools while students remain here and explain and show the whole biodiesel process through the use of Skype. Any thoughts or comments would help thank you!

like biogasoline? and whats the difference between diesel fuel and gasoline fuel anyways?
also, what is the difference in engine design between gasoline and diesel fuel?

Why can’t you take a diesel injection pump, and inject a small amount of extremely(autoignition temp) heated diesel(lowest injection throttle setting) right before entry into the spark plug hole to allow ignition of biodiesel/air mix from port fuel injectors? Complete combustion may not occur because of short stroke length, and lack of compression heat but would enough coking occur to destroy engine?