Why can't we use 100% coconut oil to substitute diesel fuel in tropical country Philippines?

Question

Our government promotes bio-diesel, a 5% coconut oil mix with 95% diesel. I have learned that coconut oil solidifies in cold environment thats why cold countries mix their bio fuels with fossil fuel ( diesel ) to heat up. Places like Bougainville in Papua New Guinea use 100 % coconut oil. They used to import diesel but delays and importation costs hamper the supply. Now their fuel is like made from above. Some Bougainvilians uses 100% coconut oil for four years and reported no engine trouble. Not to mention the exhausts smells really really good. If they can do it, why the Philippines, the number one exporter of coconut oil in the world don't?

Answer 1

same reason as why the government does not allow alternative medicines like acupuncture or herbal because the imperialist US which controls us wouldn't allow it to.

what would ever happen to US and the other oil-producing countries if we resort to coco diesel. they wouldn't allow their business to be bancrupt, it would be a big loss on their part.  

Answer 2

So you would stop delivering to the customers that have helped build the business and pay the salaries.  Then refocus the whole industry to produce a new product?  Which would maybe not require a lot of research or refining but will get it anyway and the price will rise.  

Do you know how much of the price of that fuel you buy actually goes to an oil company?  The big chunk goes to tax and tariff.  The price just went up and the profit went down.

Business people make business decisions and we should leave it to the pros.

Answer 3

why bother with coconut oil when you can use water to fuel up engines? many inventors are able to design car engines that could split hydrogen and oxygen from water by electrolysis; from which hydrogen is used as the energy source and oxygen as the by product. now what kind of biotechnology could beat that!

the point is not how cheap or how environment-friendly the fuel is but the main thing to consider is the world market which is currently dependent on crude oil. now, what would happen if one country would just deviate from this? not even the most developed countries like US could make a major shift because all of them are still tied with this "black gold". perhaps in the future, alternative fuels would be widely used, but not in the next few years.

besides, philippines isn't capable of mass-producing cars yet.

Answer 4

All that cholesterol is no good for your car's system.

Stick with good old refined..

http://www.stuffintheair.com/Alberta-oil...

...crude!

Answer 5

Im not sure what the right answer here is, but Warrior is far from it... Take a look at the deficit problems the USA has and try to explain why we import over 75% of OUR oil needs.... Quit blaming the USA for anything and everything that we perceive as negative. I know that many of our politicians are self-serving horse's rumps, but dont answer a question just to put someone else down...... My guess, if I were to make one, would be that there is influence from the huge oil industry in every part of the world to limit alternative fuels. They are no friend of the american people. Most of us would welcome any competetion to fossil fuels...

Answer 6

it costs money to even put this at the experimental level. money which the government has earmarked for other things. we need private investors to start the ball rolling. but who???

Answer 7

1) If we use coconut oil, all of the coconut plants in the philippines will shif to this purpose, meaning that wala na tayong buko!

2) Because there are still so many problems to be considered.

Answer 8

I don't know how many in tonnes the Bougainville in Papua New Guinea uses the 100 % coconut oil for their fuel.   The coconut oil as fuel for engines is in the developing stage.   Based on the current situation, if it will be used for fuel, it will consume all the coconuts in the Philippines and the return is not good but costly compared to importing diesel fuel.

OMG, can't live without eating "bukayo"!  Alam mo yun?