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Subject:Re: French Fry Exhaust, Was: biodesiel
From:John Rodgers
Date:Mon, 24 Jan 2000 03:32:27 -0600

There as a guy in Anchorage Alaska that for a time ran used frying oil in his
rabbit diesel. As I recall he added 15% kerosene to his mix. It was back in the
early '80's.
Don't know how long he kept that up.

John Rodgers
"88 GL Driver

Douglas Demarest wrote:

> I read the biodesiel article cited in the recent post and some web pages that
> it linked to.  They claim that any unmodified desiel motor can burn this
> stuff, and that its easy to make from used vegetable oil, which restraunts
> throw away tons of.  It seems like it just can't be this easy.  If it is, why
> aren't all of the desiel Vanagon owners on this list running on french fry
> waste?
>
> Doug Demarest
> Minneapolis, MN
> 86 Vanagon