Running a big rig on veggie oil
I have been researching veggie oil as fuel in diesels for years. Seems to have a few downsides and upsides but vegetable oil for fuel is actually what good ol' Rudolph Diesel had in mind for fuel when...
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mowermech wrote:
Keep in mind also that highway fuel is TAXED!
There have been people caught using vegetable oil without paying the road taxes, and it cost them a LOT of money!
Bear in mind I'm a Canadian :) A report out of one of our think tanks yesterday said that Canadians spend a whopping 42% of our gross income on taxes of one form or another while only spending 38% of it on food, clothing and shelter.
So to be frank, I could give a rat's ass whether the government collects MORE taxes off me. And I've talked to quite a few veggie oil drivers and none have even been stopped, let alone ticketed or charged. I don't think the average authority would even have an idea what veggie oil conversion IS leave alone consider it 'illegal'. Its just not that common here.
