Ford's answers to the NHTSA 6.7 Investigation

NewsW wrote:
Biodiesel B5 is allowed in California:

On October 4th, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) issued its Biodiesel Regulatory Guidance. The guidance document follows months of discussion between the ARB and biodiesel stakeholders regarding ARB's biodiesel/renewable diesel regulatory process. The document clarifies ARB's existing policy for blends above B5 and establishes guidance that ARB is unlikely to regulate blends up to B5 for the next five years while it continues testing and that ARB will continue to work on blends of B6 and above, which it expects to issue regulations for in late 2012.

http://www.californiabiodieselalliance.org/


Therefore, biodiesel remains a suspect in the issue until proven otherwise.



The more the trails lead, the more it is leading to biodiesel and its decomposition / metabolite products.

That leads us to a 2nd order effect where ASTM 975 just do not apply --- as no one test 2nd effects from metabolites.

I don't think the demand is there, some of the retailers are going belly up. Kinda feel it is a fad that has come and gone here in California, even the used car diesel ads don't use it as an advertising gimmick any more. Besides, it's priced as microbrew type fuel here, about 20% higher than regular diesel, per gallon. And delivers 10% less mpg, less kcals per gallon. Double whammy in expense to run it as anything but lubricity additive, if even that.