(NAFB.com) – Earlier this week, March 18th was National Biodiesel Day. Biodiesel has been an early driver of clean fuel growth in America and a consistent foundation for farm and food security throughout the 21st century. Clean Fuels Alliance America celebrated the industry’s resiliency and looked ahead to new opportunities for growth. “Biodiesel helped chart the course for today’s clean fuels market in heavy-duty transportation and opened the doors to applications in rail, marine, Bioheat fuel, and aviation,” said Clean Fuels CEO Donnell Rehagen. National Biodiesel Day commemorates the birthday of Rudolf Diesel, who invented the diesel engine and predicted the importance of biodiesel more than a century ago. “The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today, but such oils may become, in the course of time, as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of the present time,” he said during a speech in 1912.
