This is Richard Onderka’s white Chevy truck running on bio-diesel.

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Onderka drove to Nashville yesterday to advocate alternative fuels. Last week he opened a bio-diesel service station in Coffee County.

Diesel vehicles will run on bio-diesel without a converter.

Onderka, who came to America from Germany in 1989, has spent the last 6 years investing in a bio-diesel refinery and service station near Manchester. He’s hoping to sell bio-diesel to surrounding gas stations.

He says, compared to his native Europe, America is behind in alternative fuels.

“I remember actually 12 years ago you could actually go to Germany pull up at a gas pump and pump bio-diesel.”

Onderka says he is helping to close that gap.

The state department of agriculture says there are at least 13 bio-diesel plants in Tennessee.