Hi Keith, and thank you for a very in depth answer. First of all I believe the background is the fact that all fuel companies in Sweden (in the whole Scandinavia I think) decided to start mixing biofuel in all types fuel to get an "environmental response" immediately. That is, the diesel we buy always contains a part of biodiesel. It also mean that the coastal gas stations hardly can get fuel without bioproducts.
The four brands used in the article are Volvo Penta, Yanmar, Marine Power and Cummins Mercruiser. All of them clearly states that biodiesel is dangerous for a marine engine and they also say (again, all of them) that if any engine is operated on bioproducts the garantuees are cancelled. One weird thing is that all Cummins diesels are supposed to follow the Environmental Protection Agency's demands, and still they do not want the engines to be used with biofuel. I'm going to call the magazine monday morning, and ask how they can totally rely upon the manufacturers without _any_ source criticism at all. It doesn't matter if I'm for or against biofuel, it's a well done example in pretty bad journalism. I will ask them to make a second research, and suggest them to call Ageratec here in Sweden or Finnish Neste and have a second opinion. I know people running high performance John Deere's on biofuel only, why would a marine engine be an exception?.. Regards, Sven 2007/6/9, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hello Sven >With a lot of frustration I just read an article about using >biodiesel in marine engines. They (the engine manufacturers) Was that engine manufacturers in general, or did it name them?
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