Truckin' From Diesel to Veg Oil

A diesel-guzzling truck is converted to run on fryer oil. Take a trip with James Williams on the journey to veggie fuel automotion.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• grease
• biofuel
• green
• truck
• SUV

[AnythingWestOLincoln]

Learn how to speak before you try to make a statement that makes no sense in the first place.

[eastern2western]

great, he is going green by driving around a v8 diesel as transportation.

[blankety345]

BIODIESEL AT THE UIUC FTW

[Blaze200038]

...Unless english wasn't your first language, die in a fire. Please.

But anyway, if you think about it, whoever you paid to dispose of the fryer oil probably wouldn't use it in their car anyway. So, by doing it yourself, your saving money instead of letting it go to waste. So yes, it does make sense.

[phauser65]

where is fuel free someone made first

[wwwTwistianityCom]

Twisted!

[day751229]

it still emosions the coborn air that without any help for the globle warmig. our restaurant, my dad owns, have been asking for many times whether could we give them the grease oil nomaly pay someome to disposal. and my dad asked for my suggesion, i am disaprove that, even it is a kind of recycle. afterall why should we help the stranger to save money of fuel. it makes no sense.

[IHateMadeUpNames]

Interesting... it still requires diesel. It is nice to know it has a gallon for gallon equivalence between the two fuels in efficiency. I bet it still needs motor oil to lubricate the engine. (I know there are such things as synthetic blends, but I don't know how many would come from green sources.)

[saxmanchiro]

You're right in that we don't have enough waste veggie oil from the restaurants but your statement, " this isn't really green " was incorrect. If it is renewable and comes from carbon already in the atmosphere, it is considered green. This qualifies as green. We can use plants for fuel in many ways. This is just one of many. For every molecule of CO2 from this source used for fuel, we don't use fossil source, which is very good.

[0410warner]

What I meant was that this isn't really a long term solution. I mean, what would happen if EVERYBODY used vegetable oil to power their cars?

Sure, we can recycle some, but I'm guessing the amount of oil used in the restaurant business is not nearly enough to power all the cars on the road today.