How to Use biodiesel in a Sentence

biodiesel

noun
  • 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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