Earth Day is tomorrow and with it, I've been reading up on biodiesel more and more.I've even found several sites with people using straight vegetable oil in their engine, rather than a biodiesel blend.
Apparently, with a conversion, you can run your diesel engine on straight used vegetable oil - which most restaurants will give you for free, so they don't have to pay for it to be recycled.
I found a couple bands here in the U.S. who are driving their entire tours across America on used vegetable oil - for free.
"The diesel engine can be fed with vegetable oils and would help considerably in the development of agriculture of the countries which use it"According to Wikipedia, used vegetable oil costs on average 40 cents a gallon. Boy I'd love to fill up on that today.
"The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in course of time as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of the present time."
Rudolf Diesel 1911 (inventor of the diesel engine)
Here's a company that has perfected the conversion from diesel to used vegetable oil to a science: Frybrid
They sell entire kits, including tanks for the used vegetable oil within toolboxes for trucks. How about a 91 gallon fuel tank, full of dirt cheep or even free fuel?
The conversion kits they sell average between $1500 to $2000.
Powering up a car withvegetable oil rather than gas
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