Definition of biodiesel
: a fuel that is similar to diesel fuel and is derived from usually vegetable sources (such as soybean oil)
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It is also used in personal products like shampoo, cosmetics, cleaning products and biodiesel.
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State law covering video gambling allows an exemption from that rule for trucks stops that are on at least three acres and sell a minimum of 10,000 gallons a month of diesel or biodiesel fuel.
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Utility workers clad in hazmat gear broke up the blockage with water jets and shovels before sucking it out into tanks and processing most of it into biodiesel.
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Per-gallon biodiesel and renewable diesel credits that expired at the end of 2017 will continue.
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Non-hydrogen alternative fuel infrastructure also scored, as the new budget lets installers of infrastructure for alternative fuels like biodiesel and natural gas deduct 30 percent of the cost of installing the new pumps.
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Prices for the variety tracking 2018 biodiesel quotas slipped 2.4 percent to 83 cents.
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Even so, the two governments are at odds over thorny trade issues, including high tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on imports of Argentine biodiesel fuels, which Buenos Aires says are costing it millions of dollars.
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Gupta has already has cut energy costs with 500 megawatts of renewable capacity, including biodiesel generators that burn waste fish oil and a hydropower plant in Scotland connected to an aluminum smelter.
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First Known Use of biodiesel
1981
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Definition of biodiesel for Students
: a fuel that is similar to diesel fuel and is usually derived from plants
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