This has been tried in Holland by public transport companies who ran their
buses on linseed or sunflower oil - the great thing of course being that this
makes you independent of mineral oil. We could reclaim even more sea, just to
grow linseed. Sunflowers are more difficult in our climate.

The experiment failed because of the smell of rancid frying oil spread by the
buses (imagine hanging your head over the french fries deepfryer at a
McDonalds').

Robin
2 as yet minerally powered diesel Vanagons

John Rodgers wrote:

> I saw in the past an article showing a man driving a VW Rabbit diesel which
> used left over frying oil. He collected oil from numerous restaurants,
> strained it well and added something like 10 or 15% keroseene.
>
> Drove it as a daily driver.
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL driver
>
> Chris Gkikas wrote:
>
> > Okay, if any of you tricksters are interested, here's the link to my
> > hydroponics pages:
> > http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9860/hydro.html
> >
> > What happened was I meant to reply to an individual as well as the hydro
> > list, and I accidentally typed the vanagon list's nickname instead of
> > "hydrolist."
> >
> > I've read that a vehicle was built that ran off vegetable oil drained
> > from restaurant kitchens.  It's a diesel engine that's hooked up to this
> > huge gizmo they pull on a trailer.  I think it's called "The Green
> > Machine."  It gets terrific mileage and is environmentally friendly with
> > next to zero emissions.  FYI.
> >
> > Good gardening and good cruisin'
> > Chris