down home wrote:
Bio Diesel has lower energy content.
Bio Diesel has excellent lubricity.
Bio Diesel softens and rots seals in older Diesels especially, like our C7.
A little bit may not hurt or it may.
When it is cold it turns into something resembling lard or paraffin.
It adsorbs water and it, just like any other vegetable oil lets microbes bread and feed off it.
The EPA greenies are in need of cranial rectal inversion therapy.
In addition bio diesel has experienced consistent quality in making the product. Thus many injector failures and problems with diesels with diesel particulate filters.
Very bad as the temperature goes down for jelling up.
Generally another EPA over regulation problem. Make every diesel use expensive dpf's to stop particulate which significantly reduces mpg which causes more fuel to be burned and then mandate a product that has problems working in all diesels.
Bottom line is that they don't care if you have to retire your old Coach.