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Ramrod48 08-29-2005 03:19 AM

VEGGIE OIL FUEL
 
By any chance Ya'll , Seen any of the diesel's converted over to run off used cooking oil ??? , If I can find a p/u for a reasonable amount that aint in too rough a shape , I would like to try converting one Myself. With the rising cost of GAS these days its a killer. I bought $20.00 dollars of fuel the other day an only got a tad over 7 gallons. A year ago I could drive to work all week on $20.00 dollars. Now I get less then 2 days, Yea I live close to home errr work yea !!!!;)

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cctxfish 08-29-2005 02:53 PM

RE: VEGGIE OIL FUEL
 
Yea, it’s called bio-diesel, as best I can tell it’s just cooking oil added to methane (racing fuel) with some other added things to make a chemical change. Then drain the waste and use the fuel. I think I’d do it, if I had a diesel. Only problems I can think of are, 1 where you going to get so much used cooking oil from (I know restaurants use a lot of it, so it seems to me if I owned hamburger joint I catch all the oil I could to sell it). 2 what about the waste? Is it hazardous? How do you get rid of it? 3 Where you going to cook this much stuff up at all the time? I know I don’t have to space.

Ramrod48 08-29-2005 06:11 PM

RE: VEGGIE OIL FUEL
 
Nope Nope , the Boi-diesel , is a blended mix, Iam shooting fer straight Veggie oil, take a look at www.greasercar.com

Octane 08-29-2005 09:45 PM

RE: VEGGIE OIL FUEL
 
Ive heard of using cooking oil in a diesel. Some local restaurants around here use that in their delivery vehicles. All you have to do is filter the oil and you can dump it right in (dont quote me on that though).
The only problem is that its not practical for everyone because not all of us have a cheap and abundant source of oil. Its not economical to to go buy it at the grocery store, it costs about twice as much as diesel.
Its a novel idea though and Id say it high time we started burning corn and soybean oil and tell the Arabs to get lost.
Octane

cctxfish 08-31-2005 02:13 PM

RE: VEGGIE OIL FUEL
 
Its about time we build a new refinary, drill for new oil here, and tell tree huggers to [:-] our [&o]'s. Thatal drive the price down a bit

cctxfish 08-31-2005 02:15 PM

RE: VEGGIE OIL FUEL
 
You guys can dump all the veggie oil you can in your tank, I'll just set back and watch[&:];)


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