He switched to peanut oil when coal dust did not work out.  I still hope for a TDI running WVO, it's easier to find up here then peanuts. :-)

Mark in AK

----- Original Message -----
From: monte merrick <montemerrick@speakeasy.net>
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2006 10:25 pm
Subject: Re: European gasoline $$$$$$$$$
To: Mark Tuovinen <mst@ak.net>
Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM

> man i was dead set on a diesel vanagon when i first started looking
> and
> i wish i had gotten one - but the cost for broke down diesels is a
> bit
> prohibitive for some one as broke down as me.
> the websites for biodiesel and wvo are numerous - greasecar is good
> one.
> here's an interesting site regarding rudolf diesel himself.
>
> http://www.hempcar.org/diesel.shtml
>
> old rudolf ran his engine on peanut oil!!!
>
> and then (ominous music) enter dupont
>
>
>
> monte
>
>
> On Apr 27, 2006, at 11:04 PM, Mark Tuovinen wrote:
>
> John,
>
> You do not have to dilute waste vegetable oil but it does need to
> be
> filtered.  It also usually needs to have a heated fuel tank, lines,
> and
> filter as it is ten times more viscous then diesel fuel.  Some
> people
> in warm parts of the country report not having to heat their
> systems
> but the rest of us have no choice and must, I would hate to have to
> clear out a fuel system with jelled veggie oil in it.  For more
> info on
> this try greasecar.com, there are other sites but this is the one I
> could remember with out looking them up.
>
> Mark in AK
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
> Date: Thursday, April 27, 2006 4:46 pm
> Subject: Re: European gasoline $$$$$$$$$
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
> > Dennis, I've heard little about filtering and then re-using once
> used> motor oil. Have  you heard of this? If used vegetable oil,
> then why
> > notused motor oil? From what I understand vegetable oil like from
> > restuarants, etc, has to be diluted with about 15% kerosene to
> get a
> > useable mix. Why not used motor oil. After filtering, adding
> kerosene,> it should be good to go.
> >
> > What say you? Anybody?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > John Rodgers
> > 88 GL Driver
> >
> > Dennis Haynes wrote:
> >> Want to fill the 100 gallon tank in my motor home? How about people
> >> filling their home heating oil tanks? Now here is an opportunity
> for>> waste or vegetable oil. Oil burners will burn anything that
> remains>> fluid and can burn. Put a really good, high capacity filter
> > before the
> >> pump and pour it in. Stain it to keep out the floating food
> > stuff. Keep
> >> a spare nozzle just in case. You can actually buy furnaces and
> > boilers> expressly designed for used motor oil and other fuels.
> >>
> >> Dennis
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
> > Behalf> Of Robert Fisher
> >> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 9:36 PM
> >> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >> Subject: Re: European gasoline $$$$$$$$$
> >>
> >> --snip--
> >> (cant stand the chock of more than 100 us$ for a full tank!)
> >> --snip--
> >>
> >> There's some perspective for ya... if I filled up my Chevy's 34
> > gallon> tank
> >> today it would cost around $105. If it cost that much to fill up
> the>> Vgon
> >> I'd have to put sails on it.
> >>
> >> Cya,
> >> Robert
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
> "I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle dove, and am
> still
> on their trail. Many are the travelers I have spoken to concerning
> them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I
> have
> met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse,
> and
> even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as
> anxious
> to recover them as if they had lost them themselves." - henry thoreau
>
>