Green - the New Answer in Fuel

Just when you thought that you had heard everything available about the ills of gasoline, along comes "Green Gasoline." It even has a lovely ring to it. It seems as if there is one company who is claiming that it can make oil from algae! The green colored crude is in fact a mega clean derivative of gasoline and diesel-without the disadvantages of bio-fuel fabrication.

Sapphire Energy, a California company, has discovered a way to turn algae, non-potable water, carbon dioxide and sunshine into this "green crude." The company maintains that this new green-based gasoline is chemically equal to the light, sweet crude oil that has been eating away our pocket books and causing speculators to get rich at over $75 a barrel.

The extreme new answer is completely free of biodiesel or fossil fuels. It doesn't require ethanol, or any other sugar based or crop -based bio-fuels or products that directly influence food prices, the ruin of cropland, bodies of fresh-water or the rainforest. Instead, Sapphire's method uses totally renewable, carbon-neutral goods produced directly from CO2 and the sun, which efficiently generates green crude from one of the world's oldest, most adaptable plants (algae). And unlike biodiesel fuels and ethanol, which rely on mature feed stocks (corn, sugar and the switch grass tree) - Sapphire's algae doesn't require feed stock.

To keep the costs low, Sapphire's petroleum products are chemically equal to the molecules in crude oil, which makes their products completely well suited to the current power infrastructure, which includes pipelines and refineries. This means that the new energy produced from this green crude might be able to power your own personal gas-guzzler.

Sapphire's method might help reduce Americas dependence on imported crude and assist in ending the worry about the declining supplies of oil. With the use of carbon dioxide put out by coal plants, the production development would help eliminate destructive emanations from the atmosphere. The green crude would also create fewer pollutants in the refining process and less harmful emissions from the tail pipes of vehicles.

While algae presently makes up only a small part of the fuel market, it can be commercialized more quickly than other skills. And, Sapphire has a plan to go full ahead with pilot testing, creating 100 barrels of green crude every day, all the way up to 10,000 barrels a day. If this model works, it will put bio-fuel on the map. Cultivating ponds, which draw water from farms, tainted-streams, waste reservoirs, the ocean and other sources would rapidly cover the southern part of America, each which would produce 3-4 million gallons per year. We can then say goodbye to OPEC and hello to green!