I will be doing this when i get a house. If you want to clean up veggie oil from a restaurant, it takes quite a bit of space in drums and filters. cold temps affect it, but with a svo kit it is heated in the engine before being injected.
Although on the site there is links to tax information on how to pay the taxes to drive legally. So say your car gets 30mpg and you drive 15000 miles per year. That means you burn 500 gallons of fuel. Most states its around 40 cents per gallon tax, so you would need to pay $200 per year in 'road taxes' I havnt read the tax link in that segment, so i dont know if thats how it works, but it should work that way, and we all know thats the way government works.
"um...how does this save money?? i just spent 2.49 on a half gallon container of vegetable oil 2 days ago...that means it would be 5.00 a gallon to fill up my tank with vegetable oil, as opposed to 2 or 3.00 a gallon for gas."u can use used grease. go to a restraunt and they probably will give it to you for free
Just for FYI, if you use the bio for farm or marine use.. no taxes.. yes you can sell it as "heating oil" but be careful. As for diesels not having "power"..lol that is funny.. we have enough torque to pull 2 of your gas burners.. the only reason you have us in the top end range is because of RPMS,, that is why we get such great fuel economy. and by the way.. i dont pay ANYTHING for my diesel fuel as i use used crankcase oil and contaminated diesel fuel that is given away. I literally have hundreds of gallons of this stuff waiting at no cost for me to process . Beat that .. hehe..
Ok let me try to explain, the carbon dioxide is THE major greenhouse gas.. The CARBON in carbondioxide come from two seperate sources in biodiesel and regular gasoline. In regular gasoline, it comes from fossils made over millions of years.. In biodiesel it comes from ATOMOSPHERIC carbondioxide the plants (from which we make vegetable oil) absorb. So in short to make X tons of CO2 by burning biodiesel, the plants have to trap atleast X tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.. got it?
I have been really looking into this because the savings and the effect that it has on the environment is just too significant to just "blow off". A used Diesel car is usually several hundred dollars less than a comparable used gas vehicle. To burn straight Used Vegetable Oil you need two separate fuel tanks one heated and one not. The heated tank has the filtered Veggie Oil that you collected for free from MacDonald's, Burger King, Dun-kin Donuts, the other tank has regular diesel fuel. You will also have to change all the rubber tubes that the fuel runs through to clear plastic like you use in an aquarium (the veggie oil eats through the black automotive rubber. It is my intention to go through with this but I intend to purchase a brand new four wheel drive dual cab pickup truck with a large diesel engine and dual fuel tanks already built into it. I figure that because I will be spending only .10 to .15 a gallon for my fuel (tops) the vehicle would pay for itself.
I have a car that runs on vegetable oil, which is legal in the UK (with a few restrictions).I want to take the car on holiday to Italy. Can you confirm that it is still illegal to use vegetable oil as a fuel in Italy?If so, which specific law does it break?
eng69Feb 9, 2006
I will be doing this when i get a house. If you want to clean up veggie oil from a restaurant, it takes quite a bit of space in drums and filters. cold temps affect it, but with a svo kit it is heated in the engine before being injected.
eng69Feb 9, 2006
Although on the site there is links to tax information on how to pay the taxes to drive legally. So say your car gets 30mpg and you drive 15000 miles per year. That means you burn 500 gallons of fuel. Most states its around 40 cents per gallon tax, so you would need to pay $200 per year in 'road taxes' I havnt read the tax link in that segment, so i dont know if thats how it works, but it should work that way, and we all know thats the way government works.
crazymexican05Feb 10, 2006
unknown1987 you are my hero.... i know the person who submitted this and he is a annoying little veg head
monopoly41Feb 10, 2006
"um...how does this save money?? i just spent 2.49 on a half gallon container of vegetable oil 2 days ago...that means it would be 5.00 a gallon to fill up my tank with vegetable oil, as opposed to 2 or 3.00 a gallon for gas."u can use used grease. go to a restraunt and they probably will give it to you for free
oysteroysterFeb 10, 2006
how old is this news??
seacaptain58Feb 21, 2006
Just for FYI, if you use the bio for farm or marine use.. no taxes.. yes you can sell it as "heating oil" but be careful. As for diesels not having "power"..lol that is funny.. we have enough torque to pull 2 of your gas burners.. the only reason you have us in the top end range is because of RPMS,, that is why we get such great fuel economy. and by the way.. i dont pay ANYTHING for my diesel fuel as i use used crankcase oil and contaminated diesel fuel that is given away. I literally have hundreds of gallons of this stuff waiting at no cost for me to process . Beat that .. hehe..
sameerbMay 22, 2006
Ok let me try to explain, the carbon dioxide is THE major greenhouse gas.. The CARBON in carbondioxide come from two seperate sources in biodiesel and regular gasoline. In regular gasoline, it comes from fossils made over millions of years.. In biodiesel it comes from ATOMOSPHERIC carbondioxide the plants (from which we make vegetable oil) absorb. So in short to make X tons of CO2 by burning biodiesel, the plants have to trap atleast X tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.. got it?
curiousbeastJul 3, 2006
I have been really looking into this because the savings and the effect that it has on the environment is just too significant to just "blow off". A used Diesel car is usually several hundred dollars less than a comparable used gas vehicle. To burn straight Used Vegetable Oil you need two separate fuel tanks one heated and one not. The heated tank has the filtered Veggie Oil that you collected for free from MacDonald's, Burger King, Dun-kin Donuts, the other tank has regular diesel fuel. You will also have to change all the rubber tubes that the fuel runs through to clear plastic like you use in an aquarium (the veggie oil eats through the black automotive rubber. It is my intention to go through with this but I intend to purchase a brand new four wheel drive dual cab pickup truck with a large diesel engine and dual fuel tanks already built into it. I figure that because I will be spending only .10 to .15 a gallon for my fuel (tops) the vehicle would pay for itself.
shilanoAug 15, 2007
I have a car that runs on vegetable oil, which is legal in the UK (with a few restrictions).I want to take the car on holiday to Italy. Can you confirm that it is still illegal to use vegetable oil as a fuel in Italy?If so, which specific law does it break?
volarexJan 13, 2009
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