How to Use biodiesel in a Sentence
biodiesel
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The biodiesel rides start at $74 for adults, while the steam train begins at $87.
— Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 30 May 2024 -
If data is the new oil, this is like brewing biodiesel in your backyard.
— Tom Simonite, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2018 -
More than half of that profit - $270 million - came from the biodiesel tax credit.
— Desmond Butler, Star Tribune, 29 June 2021 -
But four members of the council on Wednesday opposed the biodiesel purchase.
— Janet Moore, Star Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021 -
Some European plants shut down during the pandemic, while others in the US switched to biodiesel.
— Kevin Crowley, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2023 -
The plant is forty times the size of the Dallas pilot plant, sufficient to start making and selling 50 million gallons of biodiesel per year.
— Michael J. Mooney, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2015 -
While there are advantages to biodiesel, there are also drawbacks.
— Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2022 -
Stoneham, 17, a senior, was there with the members of his Biodiesel and Algal Studies Group demonstrating the process of making biodiesel.
— Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024 -
Beyond the normal ads for things like taxes, peanuts, cars, and tax-exempt biodiesel cars that run on peanut oil, there were trailers galore.
— Bethy Squires, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2024 -
Resentment has brewed for years about high U.S. tariffs on biodiesel exports.
— Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 6 Aug. 2021 -
But in the months that followed, the scandal only grew, even as Mr. Greitens tried to move past it, making statements on tax cuts and funds to produce biodiesel.
— New York Times, 29 May 2018 -
Recycling cooking oil can be turned into something else, such as biodiesel to give new life and be useful.
— NBC News, 19 Sep. 2019 -
The display reveals that some of the fatberg was converted into biodiesel that helps to run London buses.
— Karla Adam, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2018 -
Demand for biodiesel got a boost in July, when a state law went into effect that required all home heating oil to be blended with biodiesel.
— Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 11 Sep. 2022 -
Most recycled waste cooking oil is currently used in the production of soap and biodiesel.
— Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 19 Feb. 2020 -
Eni have already converted three refineries to biodiesel in the past five years and others are likely to follow.
— Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020 -
Ingredients for the biodiesel fuel that powers the train come from a couple thousand restaurants in Japan.
— Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022 -
The fat removed from the hides can also be rendered down into a biodiesel or industrial oils for resale.
— Nargess Banks, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021 -
The Beatrice Daily Sun reports the plant processes corn oil and greases into biodiesel.
— USA TODAY, 4 July 2019 -
Per-gallon biodiesel and renewable diesel credits that expired at the end of 2017 will continue.
— Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 9 Feb. 2018 -
The plan doesn’t prescribe a way to achieve those reductions or mandate the use of any type of fuel or technology, such as biodiesel or electric cars and trucks.
— oregonlive, 16 Dec. 2021 -
In addition to a waste digester, the resort plans to install a biorefinery by the end of the year to transform leftover cooking oil into biodiesel.
— Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 30 Oct. 2022 -
Yield10’s initial focus has been to develop very high yielding and high oil content versions that could be used to make biodiesel and jet fuel.
— Steven Savage, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022 -
The two most common types of biofuels on the market are ethanol and biodiesel produced from a wide variety of vegetable oils and animal fats.
— Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2020 -
The company has been in Barrio Logan for about 13 years, turning cooking oil into biodiesel.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2022 -
Rides to Cavs games on the brewery's Fatty Wagon - the shuttle that runs on a 20% blend of biodiesel processed with used cooking oil - also will not be available during the hiatus.
— Marc Bona, cleveland, 23 Jan. 2020 -
About 40 percent of corn is being pulled away from feeding humans and animals to produce ethanol, and about 30 percent of soy goes to produce biodiesel.
— Washington Post, 11 May 2022 -
The 143 buses that may be purchased by the council would be powered by biodiesel fuel, which is a mixture of diesel gas, soybean byproducts and animal fats.
— Janet Moore, Star Tribune, 2 Mar. 2021 -
At the same time, alternative fuels such as clean biodiesel are increasing in popularity and could fill in the gaps in the EV supply.
— Mike Gould, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021 -
The plant, New Leaf Biofuel, converts cooking oil from restaurants into biodiesel.
— Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2022
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