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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holstein13 wrote:
North or South, you are a pioneer in this field and I want to encourage you to pursue this to the largest extent. Your experiences can only help us all in the future.
When I looked into this, the cost of fresh oil was prohibitive to make it work out. Perhaps you could make fresh oil and sell it to the local chinese restaurant for $5.00 per gallon under the condition that they give it back to you for free. Of course you will lose some to the actual food, but maybe you can recover 70% of what you sell.
The reason the math works out on used cooking oil is that two people get to use it rather than one.
Thanks for the encouragement. You've come up with an angle I've never considered - selling food grade oil then buy it back. Smart. Sounds like the plausible way to secure the supply. Also I've read the meal that results from the remainder of the crushed canola is valuable as feed for pets and farm animals. So there's more to whole picture.
