

| Subject: | Re: Alternate Fuels |
| From: | Steve W |
| Date: | Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:43:48 -0700 |
Hello, This topic is sure to stir a debate. The cost of biofuels can be seen at your local grocery store. Cooking oil can be burnt in a diesel engine without alot of trouble from what I've read. All there is to do is basically: start up and shut down on a typical diesel or biodiesel (so there isn't oil in the pump while sitting) and heat the cooking oil up to around 200 F before it goes in the pump. If the costs of our troops in the middle east protecting those oil wells is considered the cost of traditional oil based fuels is actually much much higher. It's something to think about but with big oil it's not going to go anywhere on a big scale. I just got a 1981 VW Diesel Rabbit and I just might make it go on cooking oil. If I can find a restaurant with some free waste oil I'll be sitting pretty and giving the oil industry a big middle finger. ;) Steve ===== Steve croatoa@yahoo.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
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