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    This document discusses using biofuels to balance the carbon dioxide emissions from transportation. It suggests that blending fossil fuels with biofuels at a 30% level in vehicles would balance the CO2 emitted with the amount removed from the atmosphere by growing the biofuel plants. While moving entirely to biofuel vehicles will take years, the author currently drives a diesel vehicle powered by a blend of fossil and biofuel on an experimental basis.

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    This document discusses using biofuels to balance the carbon dioxide emissions from transportation. It suggests that blending fossil fuels with biofuels at a 30% level in vehicles would balance the CO2 emitted with the amount removed from the atmosphere by growing the biofuel plants. While moving entirely to biofuel vehicles will take years, the author currently drives a diesel vehicle powered by a blend of fossil and biofuel on an experimental basis.

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    This document discusses using biofuels to balance the carbon dioxide emissions from transportation. It suggests that blending fossil fuels with biofuels at a 30% level in vehicles would balance the CO2 emitted with the amount removed from the atmosphere by growing the biofuel plants. While moving entirely to biofuel vehicles will take years, the author currently drives a diesel vehicle powered by a blend of fossil and biofuel on an experimental basis.

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    Figure 8 presents a concept that will only be realized several

    years in the future and will require that a decision be made to


    “balance the contribution from transportation.” This could be
    gone by powering the correct percentage of vehicles
    completely on biofuel or, alternately (and metaphorically
    more interesting), we could move to a blend of fossil and
    biofuels. If SOS oil is blended with diesel fuel in this analysis
    at a 30% level, then whether the fuel is used for power
    production burned in an automobile, whatever, its total
    contribution of CO2 to the atmosphere will be exactly
    balanced by that removed by the complete the plant and
    stored.

    We do not suggest that blended-fuel vehicles will happen


    immediately. Nevertheless, the senior author of this paper
    drives, on an experimental basis, “a diesel”-powered
    automobile that is run on a blend of fossil and SOS fuel.
    Figure 8. Halophyte as a source of fuel for transportation.
    Source: Environmental Research Laboratory
    AMBIO VOL. 22 NO. 7 NOV. 1993
    489

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