You know you want it

[ChadTower]

Linky


 

[Dervacumen]

My wife should be glad I don't live around Boston.  I'd pick this up in a heartbeat.
Free used veggie oil would save me close to $3000 a year in fuel costs.  And since she wouldn't let me back in the house, I could just park it and sleep in the Walmart parking lot.

[Stingray]

As a bonus, the exhaust smells like a fresh order of French fries.

-S

[ChadTower]

The smell of the occupants, however, is the real pollution.

[shardian]

There is a guy near where I live that has three cars he runs off vegetable oil. Any diesel car can run off of it. He keeps a 500 gallon tank (maybe bigger) at his home and just uses gravity filtration. I believe it is 2 old volvo's and a old mercedes benz.
I sure would like to save my $200 a month I spend on gas!

[ChadTower]

Can run off of it, yes, but it clogs the fuel lines and such far faster and is very high in cholesterol.

[whammoed]

Can run off of it, yes, but it clogs the fuel lines and such far faster and is very high in cholesterol.

Nah, vegetable oil is cholesterol free...you're thinking of lard.   Some for the car, some for you.  Mmmmm.

[danny_galaga]

yes, yes! i want one! what is it?


maybe ill just look at the link...

[danny_galaga]

hmmm, looked at the link. so? good milage for a bus though...

[NightGod]

hmmm, looked at the link. so? good milage for a bus though...

The so is the fact that you can usually get the fuel for it for free from restaurants, since you taking it means they don't have to pay to have it hauled away.

[ChadTower]

*IF* they give it to you... many, in fact probably most, will tell you to smeg off.

[NightGod]

*IF* they give it to you... many, in fact probably most, will tell you to smeg off.

You mean that Dunkin Donuts that you worked at wouldn't have let someone come and siphon oil out of their "always full at the end of the month" waste oil container?

Hell, most of the time you could just go there afterhours and take all you wanted-it's trash and, as long as it's not behind a fence, it's considered perfectly legal to take whatever you want in most municipalities.

[ChadTower]

No, he wouldn't.  He used to have homeless shelters come and ask for the food we would throw away at the end of the day... wouldn't give them that either.  He had been sued about 5 times by gold digging "I fell in the parking lot" jerkwads and wasn't about to get into that area again over franchise waste.

BTW, it is NOT legal to take trash from closed containers on private property without permission.  And health codes require dumpsters be closed and often locked, some places even require them to be fenced off.  At least not in MA, RI, CT, and most states that aren't VT (where you can do most anything) and NH (live free or die).

[NightGod]

Must be an East coast thing then, I've never seen a grease tank behind a fence in the Midwest unless it was an higher end restaurant and they put a fence around it for asthetics. I could name at least a dozen places off the top of my head that I could fill the tank on that thing within 10 miles of my house, and that would be with going in and asking the owners first. Probably another dozen more if I actually took some time to think about it.

[ChadTower]

You may also want to consider that this oil, once used, isn't always a nice liquid at room temperature.  Makes it much harder to just "take" when what you're taking is a large amount of gelatinous sludge.

[_) (V) (-)]

I know a guy with two vehicles set up like this.

First off, they have to be older models as the newer computerized ones won't work for this. If they have emmision controls you can't tamper with them or you'll get a huge fine.
 
He does in fact get all the used oil he wants but has to triple filter the stuff before he can use it. Has a barrel in his truck and a hand crank punp for 'fill ups'

And he still needs to have a small desiel tank in each vehicle to get the engines started, after that he switches over to the french fry aroma stuff and he's golden. (No pun intended)
 
He did say it's a little less powerful but gets mega miles out of his 1 gallon desiel tank.   

Not sure what he spends on filters/mile.

[danny_galaga]

hmmm, looked at the link. so? good milage for a bus though...

The so is the fact that you can usually get the fuel for it for free from restaurants, since you taking it means they don't have to pay to have it hauled away.

my 'so' referred to the fact that people have been doing this for decades...

[NightGod]

hmmm, looked at the link. so? good milage for a bus though...

The so is the fact that you can usually get the fuel for it for free from restaurants, since you taking it means they don't have to pay to have it hauled away.

my 'so' referred to the fact that people have been doing this for decades...

That's alot less fun than the interpretation I had =p