Cooking oil car

An Eagle-Vail, Colorado, businessman runs his work truck on vegetable oil taken from restaurants from around the valley. See how it works in this video.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• cooking
• oil
• car
• vegetable
• vail
• daily
• colorado
• diesel
• alternative
• fuel
• mechanics
• operation

[elpuas3000]

hi my question is can a gasoline car work with cooking oil???

[VailDaily]

I'm no expert, but I believe the cooking oil only works with diesel engines. There is a process the cooking oil goes through before becoming viable in these engines as well. Also, watch out for "road tax" expenses as well.

[johntylerkerlin]

why not just make bio diesel and bypass the heater? is that a 6.2 liter engine?

[johntylerkerlin]

@elpuas3000 veg oil can not ignite by just the spark plug like gas can. The reason it works in diesel engines is that diesel engines use high compression to ignite fuel. veg oil under an extreme pressure and I mean extreme will burn like diesel fuel. In a gas engine it could not have that kind of pressure.