Gas or Kitchen Grease

Published on June 8, 2005 By joeKnowledge In Car News

At the link, the article discusses how easy it is to drive around on the grease in your kitchen, beans and other products that can make oil toeher then... oil from Suadia Arabia.

I havAfter reading the article I was left thinking to myself, "Why, then don't we have this fuel for our cars?"
The article doesn't really answer the question. Due to my lack of time right now I haven't been able to Google it. I am sure it will be an interesting find to say the least, as to why we have not switched.

The article mentions California and it rules on making and using it... seems really wierd at least what the article author wrote.

Is some one here that knows about veg-oil? Why we can't all just start using desiel cars and kitchen grease? Is it infrastructure? How hard can it be to set up selling vegetable oil from a pump?

Comments

bakerstreet

on Jun 09, 2005

There was someone on Fox talking about it once. I can't remember if it was Bo Derek... I know it was some 70's or 80's 'babe', I can't remember who. She was saying that in the winter cooking oil cars need an oil warmer to get the fuel moving.

She said there weren't any stations around her that carried it, so she ordered it online and had 55 gallon drums delivered to her house and pumped it herself in her garage. She mentioned that any car (diesel?) could use it, but it had to be modified a bit. At that time she was paying about the same for that oil as she was for regular gas, but had the knowledge that it was renewable. Now it might be a lot cheaper, considering gas prices.

I would assume the reasons we don't do it are the same as any alternative fuel. You can't get a car from a dealer that runs it, and when you mod your car, you can't ever find a gas station. It makes your trips very short.

joeKnowledge

on Jun 12, 2005

But the real question is that why not use these types of gas? Farmers can make it easy, its in your house already, and would quite lessen our use on foreign oil.

Its better for the environment and everything.
Infrastructure be damned... make it happen. Why stay on stuff that we KNOW is bad for us everyday we use it. Besides, how hard can it be to use the very same storage tanks gas is in and put vegetable oil in it? Diesel cars can’t be massed produced?

Personally, I just think it just a matter of some kind of problem arising to make it happen. As China and other so called 3rd world countries become... I guess 2nd world countries... they are using more oil. We'll spend more money trying to find more oil when we have the ability to make diesel engines on-masse as well as vegetable oil?

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