Special Report

Celebrating 20 years with a fast pick-up

The National Biodiesel Board is marking the 20th anniversary of its founding. There’s demand for well over a billion gallons of it since its humble beginnings and performance is proven with the help of a Ford F-250 truck that in 2010 went 169 mph on the Bonneville Salt Flats on petroleum diesel fuel. Driver Brent Hajek drained the truck’s fuel tank, filled it with a blend of 20 percent biodiesel and 80 percent petroleum diesel and promptly got the pick-up to 182 mph. “That is a fast truck, and that fast truck runs on biodiesel,” said Jessica Robinson, director of communications for the National Biodiesel Board. “It’s really unbelievable,” Robinson told Brownfield Ag News, “we’re looking at something that’s really going to make a difference in our long-term fuel security.”

AUDIO: Jessica Robinson (4 min. MP3)