Firm claims 5-gal. of biofuel possible from bushel of soybeans

U.S. Sustainable Energy Corporation (USSEC) announced this week that it has purchased a 35-acre site in Natchez, Miss., where it will manufacturer a biofuel that it claims can be run in both gasoline and diesel engines. USSEC also asserts that its proprietary process also can produce 5 gallons of this fuel from a bushel of soybeans, compared to about 1.5 gallons of biodiesel that can be extracted from a bushel of beans.

A video on the company's web site demonstrates the company's fuel being used in a variety of gasoline and diesel engines, including a generator set up to power the city hall of Vidalia, La.

The video indicated that there were two grades of the fuel, referred to as "cuts". Cut 1 was used in gasoline engines and cut 2 was used in diesel engines.

In the presentation, USSEC CEO John Rivera admits that his company makes claims that he would find hard to believe if he were "on the other side of the podium." Rivera stated that production costs for a gallon of the company's biofuel would be as little as 50 cents per gallon. It would be possible, he also said, to replace all the nation's imported diesel fuel needs with 3 plants the size of the one planned for Natchez.

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