[Sca-cooks] OT & OOP: Greasecar?

[ysabeau]

One of the guys I work with has an "old" diesel Mercedes four door 
sedan that is runs on vegetable oil. He has an arrangement with 
our cafeteria to get their old grease, then he takes it home and 
strains it. It is kind of funny because his exhaust smells like 
french fries or fish or whatever was cooked in the oil. I told him 
that if he really wanted to be cruel he would get the oil from 
Krispy Kreme so he would drive down the highway scenting it with 
donuts during the morning commute. He might even be able to get 
Krispy Kreme to pay him for doing it! He said he gets good mileage 
on it...he can get from Austin to San Antonio (about an hour to 
two hours, depending on where you start and finish) on about 2 
gallons of vegetable oil.

He said that he didn't have to do much conversion on his car to 
get it to run on vegetable oil because it is an older diesel 
engine. The modern diesel engines won't do it without major 
conversion. 

My theory is...The US is one of the largest producers of vegetable 
oil, if not THE largest, we are paying the farmers to not plant 
crops because there is such a surplus...so why not promote this as 
an alternative, sustainable energy source? It would also keep the 
used oil out of the environment, in a way. Instead of regular and 
premium, you can have new or recycled. 

Ysabeau,
Barony of Bryn Gwlad
Ansteorra

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
Reply-To: jenne at fiedlerfamily.net,
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:55:13 -0400

>NPR reports on a band touring in a van fueled by old cooking 
grease...
>
>http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3862582
>-- 
>-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
>"If the injustice ... is of such a nature that it requires you to 
be the 
>agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let 
your life be a 
>counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to 
see, at 
>any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong, which I 
condemn." 
>-- Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government"
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