Environmental Benefits

• Diesel fuel can release dangerous toxins that pollute the air and negatively affect the environment. With biodiesel fuel, there is a significant decrease in the amount of unburned hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and other exhaust matter. Hydrocarbons increase greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere, which leads to higher temperatures around the world. Diesel fuel also pollutes the air with harmful sulfur oxides and sulfates. Biodiesel fuel eliminates the need to worry about any sulfur substances doing harm to the world's plants, aquatic animals, roadways and buildings via acid rains.
  
  

Health Benefits

• Studies have shown that biodiesel fuel has a more beneficial impact on the overall health of society than petroleum diesel fuel. Biodiesel fuel reduces the risk of exposure by the public to a high amount of carbon dioxide, which can lead to certain health risks such as dizziness, headaches, increased heart rate, shortness of breath and even unconsciousness. Other tests have concluded that certain substances thought to possibly lead to cancer in some individuals are reduced dramatically in the burning of biodiesel fuel. Tests have conclusively shown that biodiesel fuel is not harmful to human health.
  
  

Domestic Benefit

• With so much petroleum imported into the U.S. from other nations, the use of biodiesel fuel will give the United States a chance to domestically produce its own fuel. The U.S. would no longer need to depend so heavily upon the Middle East, an area often riddled with turmoil. The problems in the Middle East have led to higher petroleum prices in the past, a problem that would hopefully be avoided if the U.S. made its own alternative fuel.
  
  

Convenient Alternative

• Biodiesel fuel can be quite cost-effective and convenient in the long-run as more and more companies choose to work with this alternative fuel and as the price of petroleum rises. Biodiesel can be used in any engine that runs on diesel fuel. Generally, there are very minimal changes that need to be made to the engine or fuel system if the choice is made to use this alternative fuel.
  
  

Boost in Farming Industry

• The increased use and production of biodiesel fuel leads to a greater demand for the products necessary to create the alternative fuel. This new fuel energy will give the struggling farming industry new life. Since 2007, large crops of soybeans and cottonseed have been in huge demand because of the roughly 105 plants across the nation capable of outputting nearly 864 million gallons of biodiesel fuel. Crops of peanuts, corn, coconuts, olives and sunflowers are also needed since their oils, and the oils of other crops, are also used to produce biodiesel fuel.