used vegetable oil?

What are the hippies gonna do then?

12/20/2005 10:47:03 AM

It's corporate servitude dude!

12/20/2005 10:49:36 AM

well hopefully the price of a combo goes down

[Edited on December 20, 2005 at 10:56 AM. Reason : oh, and Greenpeace advocates super-sizing!]

12/20/2005 10:56:27 AM

That is soo true.

I must wonder, however, with nearly every vehicle in Europe using a diesel engine surely there is a market in place to distribute restaurant grease, right?

Has anyone here been to Europe and actually seen this market in action?

If not, I wonder why not...

12/20/2005 11:25:38 AM

well, regular diesel engines can't run on grease without modification. they can run on biodiesel, but that requires modifying the grease itself. There is alot of biodiesel in europe,though.

12/20/2005 11:27:21 AM

My favorite part was some dude in Germany got flak for making biodiesel that included cat carcassas.

12/20/2005 11:42:16 AM

thats what he gets for getting his grease from chinese restaurants.

12/20/2005 12:03:13 PM

Isn't biodiesel still having problems with cold temperatures though? I remember that it was a big hurdle for the technology since it had even less tolerance for the cold versus diesel and gasoline.

12/20/2005 1:20:27 PM

That's a problem with homemade biodiesel. Most of the stuff you get out of the pump is treated with stuff to prevent that, though. I think.

12/20/2005 1:22:52 PM

why do they think they have a right to free used veggie oil in the first place?

12/21/2005 12:28:00 AM

aach! thats my retirement grease!

12/21/2005 8:48:52 AM

i'd rather we start using ethanol and GM starts releasing flex fuel engines like in brazil

12/21/2005 5:57:33 PM

I'm sure you'd have the supporter of every midwestern Senator for that idea.

12/21/2005 6:02:42 PM

Quote :

"i'd rather we start using ethanol and GM starts releasing flex fuel engines like in brazil"

Umm, they have. My Tahoe is a flex fuel engine but there are only 2 areas in NC, last I checked, that had E85 fueling stations (Shelby and I think Charlotte)

12/21/2005 11:02:06 PM

Quote :

"why do they think they have a right to free used veggie oil in the first place?"

I don't think anybody thinks that.

Quote :

"i'd rather we start using ethanol and GM starts releasing flex fuel engines like in brazil"

Ethanol is worthless. Oh, unless you're into pork.

12/21/2005 11:11:09 PM

Quote :

"why do they think they have a right to free used veggie oil in the first place?"

it not so much a right. the restaurants have to pay for disposal. it becomes beneficial for both the restaurant (less/no disposal fee) and the "hippie" (free fuel)

and the only "modifications" needed to run WVO are a separate heated tank and lines, and a switching mechanism to go from diesel to oil (the engine needs to be warmed up wby running diesel)

12/22/2005 11:38:09 AM