running cars on vegetable oil?
11-28-05, 08:31 AM
#1
running cars on vegetable oil?
i was watching NY1 this morning and they featured a woman with a VW and a guy with a MB both cars were diesel and they bought some kind of conversion kit that would allow the car to run on vegetable oil once it was heated up. they say that gas mileage was unchanged but that there was less power. has abnyone else heard of this?
11-28-05, 10:23 AM
#3
Zombie Slayer
Oh I've heard of it and it's becoming much more prevelant right now!
The benefit is that you do not need to use new oil. Users are taking the watse oil from fast food restaurants and using that!
Also, about 3 months ago on the TV show "Trucks!", the host showed a unit you can buy for your garage that you put all types of waste oil into (vegetable, motor, etc.). The devise does something to it (I have no idea as I walked in on the end of the segment), and it is used in place of diesel. He filled up one of his trucks with it and was doing burnouts left and right. No loss of power!
Here's the link to the company that manufacturs the machine.
http://www.freedomfuelamerica.com/
The benefit is that you do not need to use new oil. Users are taking the watse oil from fast food restaurants and using that!
Also, about 3 months ago on the TV show "Trucks!", the host showed a unit you can buy for your garage that you put all types of waste oil into (vegetable, motor, etc.). The devise does something to it (I have no idea as I walked in on the end of the segment), and it is used in place of diesel. He filled up one of his trucks with it and was doing burnouts left and right. No loss of power!
Here's the link to the company that manufacturs the machine.
http://www.freedomfuelamerica.com/
11-28-05, 11:34 AM
#5
Lexus Fanatic
Yes....running diesel engines on vegtable, or cooking, oil has been done many times in test environments. I'm not enough of a lawyer, though, to know if it can be done legally on a public road. All 50 states and the Federal Government collect taxes on fuels that are sold at a pump and used on public roads. The use of a motor vehicle on these public roads without paying fuel taxes MAY 
be illegal and a form of tax evasion....as I said, I'm not a lawyer here. One thing, though, is interesting.....hybrids, though, already have Federal tax credits and exemptions. Could diesels be next? And the cooking oil used to run these diesels in the test environment has also been taxed......in the sales taxes you pay at the supermarket or distributor when you but it..
be illegal and a form of tax evasion....as I said, I'm not a lawyer here. One thing, though, is interesting.....hybrids, though, already have Federal tax credits and exemptions. Could diesels be next? And the cooking oil used to run these diesels in the test environment has also been taxed......in the sales taxes you pay at the supermarket or distributor when you but it..
Last edited by mmarshall; 11-28-05 at 11:38 AM.
11-28-05, 11:50 AM
#6
Originally Posted by mmarshall
Yes....running diesel engines on vegtable, or cooking, oil has been done many times in test environments. I'm not enough of a lawyer, though, to know if it can be done legally on a public road. All 50 states and the Federal Government collect taxes on fuels that are sold at a pump and used on public roads. The use of a motor vehicle on these public roads without paying fuel taxes MAY be illegal and a form of tax evasion....as I said, I'm not a lawyer here. One thing, though, is interesting.....hybrids, though, already have Federal tax credits and exemptions. Could diesels be next? And the cooking oil used to run these diesels in the test environment has also been taxed......in the sales taxes you pay at the supermarket or distributor when you but it..
be illegal and a form of tax evasion....as I said, I'm not a lawyer here. One thing, though, is interesting.....hybrids, though, already have Federal tax credits and exemptions. Could diesels be next? And the cooking oil used to run these diesels in the test environment has also been taxed......in the sales taxes you pay at the supermarket or distributor when you but it..
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