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Old 12-22-2010, 11:36 AM
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Default Used Cooking Oil

I don't know where I've seen this but a man converted used cooking oil into bio fuel which ran his Diesel-engine pick-up. If this is real then why not the government try to replicate what that man has done so we can get away from fossil fuels?
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Old 12-23-2010, 12:38 PM
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I read a news article about the same topic. There's a man outside Norwich city who was featured in the local paper. He would go around his town to collect used oils from the "fish and chips" shop. He has a machine to convert the used cooking oils and sells them in his own petrol station.

I don't know why government don't make efforts to lessen our dependence on fossil fuel. I think one reason is about the tax they collect from crude oil.
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Old 12-25-2010, 07:04 AM
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I have seen a car that runs on coffe, unfortunate it's not a viable alternative since it's much more costly to run it that way. As with running your car on cooking oil, unless you want to end up needing to replace your engine I'd stay away from it.
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Old 12-30-2010, 10:35 PM
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