Her car runs on vegetable oil
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From Striat Times webby:-
WESTON (Connecticut) - As car owners across the United States grapple with pumped-up petrol prices, some are turning to their favourite restaurants for a solution: recycled vegetable oil.
Saving money and the environment, Ms Kantor tops up her diesel car's spare tank with recycled vegetable oil. -- AP
Environmentalists with diesel cars have used vegetable oil for years as an alternative fuel to cut back on sooty emissions, but as petrol prices soar above 52.6 US cents (90 Singapore cents) a litre, they say their 'veggie cars' are a great way to save cash.
Every two weeks, Ms Etta Kantor drives to a local Chinese restaurant to fuel her blue Volkswagen Jetta. She calls ahead and the owner puts aside a few buckets of used oil for her. At home, Ms Kantor, 58, uses a colander and a bag filter to remove water and food particles.
The vegetable oil is then poured into a 57-litre tank in the back of her Jetta, where a spare tyre would usually be kept. With a touch of a button located above the radio, she can switch from diesel fuel to vegetable oil in seconds.
Restaurants that would have to pay to get rid of their old vegetable oil are happy to give it away for free.
Ms Kantor switching her car fuel to vegetable oil.
'It saves us a couple of dollars and it helps to save the environment a bit,' said Ms Shawn Reilly, a co-owner of Eli's On Whitney, a restaurant in Hamden.
Bridgeport resident Aaron Schlechter says he picks up 114 to 152 litres twice a month from Eli's. He uses it to fuel his car for his 270km commute every day to his job as an environmental consultant in New York.
'The only way I can assuage my guilt by driving this awful distance is by driving something that isn't consuming fossil fuels and has much more environmentally friendly emissions,' he said. -- AP
One question: Diesel Engines can run on organic fuel? In this case vege oil
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Flintstone one is better
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but in singapore, only lorry and taxi run on diesel leh.....
also our ga-ver-men charge a high diesel tax lor......
onli hope that car can one day run on "long-gao-sui" (water from drain)
or sea water also can lah.... then see pple take water from east coast....west coast...everywhere...... juz wonder whether the ga-ver-men charge for taking sea water.... haa haa -
U know whats the implication if vege oil is really usable?!?!?Originally posted by octega:From Striat Times webby:-
WESTON (Connecticut) - As car owners across the United States grapple with pumped-up petrol prices, some are turning to their favourite restaurants for a solution: recycled vegetable oil.
Saving money and the environment, Ms Kantor tops up her diesel car's spare tank with recycled vegetable oil. -- AP
Environmentalists with diesel cars have used vegetable oil for years as an alternative fuel to cut back on sooty emissions, but as petrol prices soar above 52.6 US cents (90 Singapore cents) a litre, they say their 'veggie cars' are a great way to save cash.
Every two weeks, Ms Etta Kantor drives to a local Chinese restaurant to fuel her blue Volkswagen Jetta. She calls ahead and the owner puts aside a few buckets of used oil for her. At home, Ms Kantor, 58, uses a colander and a bag filter to remove water and food particles.
The vegetable oil is then poured into a 57-litre tank in the back of her Jetta, where a spare tyre would usually be kept. With a touch of a button located above the radio, she can switch from diesel fuel to vegetable oil in seconds.
Restaurants that would have to pay to get rid of their old vegetable oil are happy to give it away for free.
Ms Kantor switching her car fuel to vegetable oil.
'It saves us a couple of dollars and it helps to save the environment a bit,' said Ms Shawn Reilly, a co-owner of Eli's On Whitney, a restaurant in Hamden.
Bridgeport resident Aaron Schlechter says he picks up 114 to 152 litres twice a month from Eli's. He uses it to fuel his car for his 270km commute every day to his job as an environmental consultant in New York.
'The only way I can assuage my guilt by driving this awful distance is by driving something that isn't consuming fossil fuels and has much more environmentally friendly emissions,' he said. -- AP
One question: Diesel Engines can run on organic fuel? In this case vege oil
KFC and McDonalds (among others) will be selling their value meals at $15. Help ah.....
I prefer they to keep rising NYMEX crude rather than touch vegeoil.... -
ya, someone i know in aust oso like tat, his old mercs runs on vegetable oil
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Petrol stinks. Diesels rule. I'm left with just a little more research to do, and I'm penning a petition to scrap that archaic diesel tax BS.
Just to whet your appetite, not only do diesels allow you to run on cooking oil, they give more torque and mileage and less carbon dioxide.... -
u ve started writing..... your petition....
spiritually support you.... many european countries have more and more per% of their cars being diesel-driven.....
in the right step.... but take alot of convincing to do.... a long term commitment!!!