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Subject:Fw: Used Oil Heating? (very little VW content)
From:Marshall Ruskin
Date:Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:35:37 -0600

I understand that used motor oil cannot be directly burned, as it is TOXIC.
I think the companies that recycle used motor oil sell it to refineries to
be re-refined.

DO NOT BURN IT.

Marshall Ruskin
84 Westy
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Doss <BDOSS24046@AOL.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Monday, February 15, 1999 9:17 PM
Subject: Used Oil Heating? (very little VW content)

>I'm building a new garage, so I can do more of my own work on my '88.
That's
>the end of the Vanagon content. Anyway, I'm wondering if any of you
"recycle"
>your used oil as heating fuel. I'm planning on putting a wood burner in my
>garage, and I had this brainstorm about starting to save my used oil... I
am
>concerned about environmental negatives, but I figure anything used twice
is a
>good thing (in my own perhaps twisted way). I know they make special
furnaces
>to use this stuff as fuel, but I'm more interested in a wood-oil
combination
>sort of thing. Any thoughts?
>

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