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Joystick Jerk:
I was reading not to long ago how most modern diesels can run off vegetable oil with as little as a few hundred dollars of modifications. There are a few companies out there even selling kits to convert vehicles to run on vegetable oils.

Just imagine, driving down the interstate, you need gas. You just find the closest restaurant and ask them if you can take what's in their grease trap. A quick filter later and your tanks full for free.

ChadTower:

It's not a quick filter, it actually takes quite a while and you have to filter it a few times.  Not as simple a process as it is made out to be.

Joystick Jerk:
They had some guys doing an across the country tour with a vegetable oil powered car, and they said it only took about ten minutes to filter a whole tanks worth. Hell, I'd do that if it took half an hour for a free tank of gas.

ChadTower:

Then it wasn't the same type of "simple" engine mods you were also talking about... those "simple" mods require heavy filtering on the oil. 

polaris:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 15, 2007, 05:10:44 pm ---
Then it wasn't the same type of "simple" engine mods you were also talking about... those "simple" mods require heavy filtering on the oil. 

--- End quote ---
im not disagreeing as i know ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- about engines, but have heard various stories that no modding is needed in some cases.
i have seen a generator that ran on both happily and the chip fat actually cleaned the crap that the diesel left behind

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