Man runs his Mercedes on vegetable oil

Yes it can be done lol.... only catch is, our government are trying to outlaw it and charge taxes of 36% on cooking oil lol. And asking supermarkets to raise their prices on oil. I think they are afraid of loosing a great ammount of money over this...:-)

I've heard of that being done quite a lot, actually. I think they have to convert their engine somehow to take the vegetable oil... they go around to these places like Waffle House and get their used oil. Its a win win for both the giver and the receiver.

The only thing I've heard about this is that vehicles run slower than normal if you use this method. I think all the shcool buses in Arlington County Virginia (Al Gore's hometown) use this method sucessfully.

It's great sharing to us this article. It is indeed very interesting. I think that with the soaring prices of oil, people should look for alternatives for the conventional oil. For people who are dependent on their cars but do not want to spend that much, having alternatives would be great. It is important though that we use something that would be compatible with our car.

I have a friend of mine who runs his car off of old (used) oil... same setup... old mercedes car with a solid block engine.

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Zelo

I have actually watched this. Using old oil from deep fryers, these guys would heat it up so that it was more runny, then they would pour it through a series of filters to get as much junk out of it as they could.

When they were done, the oil was reasonably thin and appeared to be very clean. They then poured the filtered veggy oil into the tank, fired up and away they went. All using old deep fryer oil.

They didn't use lard or shortening because it requires heat to keep it thin enough to run. But liquid oils work just fine.

wow that is neat but the will just raise the price of it like thay do every thing else

This is a good idea if you can afford to pay for it all at once. Then as the fellow said, There are now thieves stealing cooking oil from the restaurants plus them charging for the used oil. Even then it would be good since the oil would be used instead of being dumped or put into cattle feed

This man has a great idea. I am sure it has saved him a lot of money also. Gas prices are getting very high.

WOW there have been a lot of articles on this. I think this is the fourth I have responded to just from my 'circle of friends'.

Yes there are converter kits that will take 'dirty' fry oil and convert it into usable bio-diesel.

You need a car that is a diesel (gas engines will not work) and you need a solid block car (which usually means driving an old clunker).

I have a friend who does it and he said that when all it said and done (and he gets the dirty oil for free) it is about 75¢/gallon to run his old mercedes.

SWEET!

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Zelo