Cost Key to Biodiesel Popularity

The most important thing that will determine whether or not biodiesel will come to limelight in the near future is its price competitiveness. Simply put, if its cheap people will start using it and also start talking about it thus gaining the mainstream popularity.

Hydrogen , Hybrid or some of those SciFi type fuels have a special feeling towards it as though they are great human advancements so they get mainstream attention very easily. Biodiesel lacks this hue, not because it is inferior in any way , in fact its superior to all those in many ways but most are not seen by the lay man in his first look.

The simple fact that it can be used in cars as they are with no or very few modifications if any is a very important advantage it has over these other alternative fuels.

Now is Biodiesel not as popular as these other fuels? To get facts straight, except for the Initiated (those who are into biodiesel) the lay man doesn't know what Biodiesel is
that is fact.
A simple method to know this is do a Google search on Biodiesel and then on Hydrogen and the other fuels the number of results will be your answer.

So how can biodiesel be more popular? To the common man (we are talking about an average of the Third world common man and the Developed world common man) cost of something talks easiest. So the key is keeping Biodiesel cheaper than other alternative fuels in the market this itself will be the biggest push it can receive.This will include utilising all products from biodiesel and proper sourcing of feedstock and so on.
Another important factor making Biodiesel unattractive is the fact that in the developed world the number of personal vehicles running on diesel is small, but unlike the developed world most developing countries have a huge number of personal transport running on diesel. Thus another key point in biodiesel popularity is that it should be made popular in developing con tries too. There the cost of Biodiesel will talk better than environmental factors.
So we should working on finding and developing sources process etc that will make Biodiesel cheaper.

Even at current prices Bio diesel is cheaper than other alternative fuels in most parts of the world and this is a key reason behind it gaining popularity at a very fast pace. IT is cheaper than conventional fuels only in few areas and we should learn from them to make it cheaper than conventional fuels.

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