By Mike Marino
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In this automotive age of gastronomical gas guzzling internal combustion carnivores there is one question that comes up time after time. Is it truly possible that a vehicle can change its ways and become a big bad bodacious heavy metal bio-diesel vegetarian that is eco-friendly to the consumer and to the environment? Can these predators of petroleum persuasion turn over a more environmentally sound new leaf?

The answer is a resounding yes and today that new leaf is a green leafy matter. New Leaf Biofuel of San Diego in Southern California is poised on the front lines of an environmentally sound approach to reducing toxic emissions that affect everything from our daily life in the city to the destruction of rainforests in lands far removed from our own communities. The New Leaf approach is also designed to combat and reduce America’s addiction and dependence on high priced and high polluting foreign oil.

Locked and loaded in the New Leaf Eco-Arsenal are their version of WMD’s called WVO’s or waste vegetable oils. These oils can end up in drains and clogging city sewers which takes time to clean and of course, can cost big bucks to a community to have it cleaned up and removed. New Leaf collects these WVO’s from local kitchens and are made available to San Diego communities as an alternative vehicle fuel source. This product is produced from renewable or recycled resources, a home-grown and proudly green product and  manufactured right here in the good old red, white and blue US of A.

The best part is that this end product can be used in diesel engines with little or very little modification to get that machine to go green.

Going green. Is it just a new idea and merely a New Leaf dream? Not by a long shot when you think of how bio-fuel was originally introduced in 1900 by Rudolph Diesel himself. Rudy the diesel dude demonstrated his prototype compression ignition engine in Gay Paree at the World Exhibition at the beginning of the 20th Century and that engine was light years ahead of its time.

 

Today we scour the big blue orb for big green solutions to alternative fuels, but Rudy was running his engine on peanut oil –  giving it the distinction of being the world’s first technology to recognize the future of bio-fuels.

Although Rudy’s engine didn’t have the flux capacitor of Doc and Marty’s DeLorean in the “Back to the Future” film series, it was an alternative to existing fuel sources at the time. Vegetable oils were used extensively in diesel engines of that day until the Roaring Twenties when an alteration in the engine was made that allowed it to start consuming a residue of petroleum diesel.

Today we’re trying to get back to the basics and also practice ecologically friendly stewardship of Mother Earth. One way to help our “family” is to practice good conservation practices in our daily lives and one of those ways is to reduce our driving or make our driving conservation driven by utilizing bio-fuels. New Leaf is one of those forward-thinking companies that put the planet above profits.

The benefits of the New Leaf plan are simple and succinct. Conversion costs are minimal, the eco-benefits benefits us all and process couldn’t be much simpler. New Leaf has a complete green program in place to educate the community on the uses, benefits and ways to put bio-fuels to work for the common good. New Leaf offers professional and dependable service to answer your questions and getting you and your machine to go green. They have the expertise and, most of all, the commitment to the community they serve. If you’re a consumer, fleet operator or individual interested in how you can go green, contact New Leaf Bio-Fuel in San Diego by visiting their extensive website at: www.newleafbiofuel.com and find out how you can turn that meat eater into a New Leaf bio-fuel vegetarian.

If Rudolph Diesel was merely ahead of his time by light years, then New Leaf Bio-Fuel in San Diego feels it’s high time we to go “back to the future”.



Mike Marino is a New Mexico-based freelance writer and author. Contact him at: dharmabumroadie@yahoo.com
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