We’ve known it for a long time but it didn’t quite add up. With increasing frequency, we experienced bizarre weather conditions which had not been felt earlier in the past century. These phenomena are due to the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases create a blanket that traps the release of heat back into space consequently making the earth a warmer place to live. Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, the so-called greenhouse gases are discharged into the atmosphere when fossil fuels are burned such as gasoline and coal.

According to Greenhouse Gas Online, in the US and much of the developed world, 30 percent of carbon dioxide emissions are due to transportation. One third of these emissions are from diesel engines - buses, delivery trucks and semi-trailer trucks.

In 1936, when the trucking industry begun its operations shipping agricultural products from farms to cities, diesel fuel emitted fumes of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide, visible as the obnoxious dirty soot. Greenhouse Gas Online says that for the past 100 years there had been a rapid accumulation of man-made greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This started the cycle of global warming. Clearly, transportation takes most of the blame.

The inventor of the prototype diesel initially utilized vegetable oil as fuel for his invention. Rudolf Diesel then knew that the popular fuel would be a refined chemical derived from gasoline. Despite this, he was hopeful that vegetable oil would find its useful place as the main source of fuel for his engines. Bio-diesels gradually became an alternative fuel source in the 1920 and the 30’s in some European countries.

Using bio-diesels in trucks has an immense impact on the environment and is easy on the pocket. Bio-diesels commonly use vegetable oil such as soy or rapeseed oil and sometimes animal oil. Oil from restaurants used to fry your French fries and other foods can be recycled to manufacture bio-diesels. When used on your diesel engine, it increases the lubricity of your fuel and doesn’t give off soot and greenhouse gas. It isn’t only renewable but biodegradable too.

And this is the most important of all, utilizing bio-diesels decreases carbon dioxide emission from trucks, the filth that we hate. Wang and Lyons conducted a study done in 2000 in West Virginia University comparing the emissions of trucks on bio-diesel and trucks on pure petroleum diesel. The results reveal that the bio-diesel fueled trucks have lower particulate matter, lower carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emissions than the trucks that were fueled with petrol.

One gallon of gasoline utilized by a diesel engine releases 20 pounds of carbon dioxide. Now, if a trucking company uses 12,000 gallons a year of petrol diesel that would amount to 240,000 pounds of heat-trapping carbon dioxide released in the earth’s atmosphere. Supposing all trucking companies world wide decide to use bio-diesels, we’ll expect a much lesser carbon dioxide emission and then slows the process of global warming. Isn’t that something?

On the highways, trucks on petrol have that nasty habit of spewing repugnant noxious fumes. These fumes contain carcinogenic chemicals that increase lung cancer risk. They spew out sulfur that causes acid rain formation. Here’s more, their noise irritate the ears. Using bio-diesel on trucks gives off a much cleaner smell and moves silently along the highways. A relief for everyone’s nose and ears.

Studies reveal that trucks fueled by bio-diesels aren’t less efficient in terms of mileage. Skeptics say that they aren’t as efficient as trucks on petrol. But, researches clearly prove that there is no significant decrease or increase in fuel mileage. Trucks on Bio-diesel are at par with those on petrol. We all know the upside. Trucks on bio-diesel deliver goods, people and furniture and do other tasks cleanly and quietly.

Realizing their responsibility to create a better earth and the effect on people’s health, a number of trucking companies use bio-diesels. Serenity Movers is one efficient company whose fleet of trucks runs exclusively on bio-diesels. These trucks cover 55, 000 miles annually delivering furniture.

Just think if all trucking companies run on bio-diesel, we’ll be able to avert the continuous process of global warming and prevent catastrophic weird weather conditions. Undoubtedly, we’ll be able to save the melting of the polar caps where some exotic species of plants and animals thrive and save them from extinction. We’ll be free from the dictates of oil rich countries and pay our farmers their due. We’ll save our money while we enjoy and nurture a productive and sustainable earth that we can endow to future generations.

If we want this kind of renewable and healthier world, let’s take action. Let’s choose trucking services running exclusively on bio-diesels.

Lillian Marie Lauran writes on behalf of NY moving specialists Serenity Movers. Moving soon? - make sure to find GREEN NY movers. Choose Serenity Movers New York.