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I am very certain, users will switch to diesel engine in the next 50 years, as petrol spiral up to like RM20/litre or so.
So boys and girls. We're still using a shit load of fossil fuel? Who's to gain? Palm oil plantations. Whose seeking for a side stabil source income. And oil companies. Who continues to supply fossil fuels.
Brazil's options is a better one. flex fuel vehicles. Cars that can run on a mixture, and pure version of petrol and alcohol. However there's impossible to implement because the oil companies control the distribution neighbour.
anyways this is my 2 cents
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It also means 10% cleaner as fossil feul needs to be filtered while palm oil is clean when extracted.
But it's still true that it does not satisfy future needs. The government and petroleum resellers should encourage people to switch to hybird cars which saves plenty of feul and also switch to NGV which is more enviromental friendly.
However, we have more information in one of our posts about Bio-Diesel.
In fact, when Rudolf Diesel invented the world's first Diesel engine, it used peanut oil to burn.
(you can read about it at http://www.cyberlipid.org/glycer/biodiesel.htm)
About it's fuel efficiency, kindly read this
http://www.biodiesel.org/pdf_files/fuelfactshee...
It is more like 30% of "torque" (measured by Nm) than "power" (measured by kilowatts) for diesel engines, and that is exactly the reason diesel engines are good for towing and heavily loaded vehicles.
Diesel engines are actually very efficient -- looking at all those turbo diesel European cars. Torque kicks in at very low RPM so they are easy to drive, and can be very economical for highway drivings -- even beats hybrid in some cases.
They are getting more popular here in Australia, and if I am doing more long distance driving, I'll definitely consider a turbo-diesel for my next car.