Financial advantages
Natural vegetable oil...
- is cheaper than diesel fuel and so safeguards jobs thanks to a visible decrease of fuel costs in transport companies and companies with their own fleet. Additionally, this increases competitiveness of these companies.
- decreases the fuel costs due to quantity discounts made possible when using an own fuelling station. Such a filling station could be operated on minimal requirements.
- decreases maintenance costs of the fleet due to lower corrosion damage of the exhaust system as well as better lubrication of the fuel injection system.
- and its ecological advantages can effectively be used as an advertising component by diesel engine operating companies.
- provides new jobs in the technical industry and in the electric power sector.
- provides new jobs and additional job markets for the domestic agriculture.
- as a fuel, can be a real possibility for development aid as third world countries could become independent of the mineral oil companies if they used their own energy sources.
Ecological advantages
Natural vegetable oil...
- as a renewable recourse, it will not become extinct in the near future like energy sources from kerosene
- as an energy resource, it is CO2 neutral, because during the burning it only releases so much of that, which it has taken in beforehand and therefore does not contribute to global warming.
- does not pollute the grounds, groundwater or open waters as it belongs to the water hazard class '0'.
- constitutes a smaller fire hazard with a flashpoint of approximately 220º than e.g. diesel fuel with a flashpoint of approximately 70º.
- burns sulfur-free and thus does not contribute to acid rain.
- as fuel, has got a better energy balance than diesel fuel, because manufacturing, distribution and use is done on a decentralized basis and transportation and manufacturing machines can be also powered with vegetable oil.
- offers agriculture the possibility of using new markets in biological cultivation.
- as a valuable resource offers a possibility to help third world countries to get out of their own ecological problems, if they were to be offered participation in ecological markets.