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Originally Posted by Grizzly
You're joking, right? You're not one of those fruitloops with a garage full of old chicken fat and french fry grease, are you?
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Ohh geeezzz. Here we go. My colleagues harass me about this until they're informed. I'm used to the abuse. They tease me about this too.
Anybody who knows me knows the characterization is improper. I'm no fruit loop (but maybe I am, b/c I'm a lawyer). I have my own used oil, and get some from some restaurants. We put about 5k a year on our jeep. Mostly in winter.
About half of that is my homemade brew of diesel fuel. Too easy too make. Oil+methanol+some other homemade materials. More of an economic decision than political. I make diesel because I can, not because I must. Why pay $2.50 a gallon when you can make it for about .60 cents? Which is why we do it. Go fishing, eat fish. Go hunting, eat game. Grow vegies in our garden, eat it. Got excess wood, feed the furnace. Got left over celery, carrots and onions, make soup. Got used oil, feed the jeep. Too easy. Right?
You've seen my threads on the sky-is-falling crowd. Don't believe it. But it really is cheaper, for now, in making my own fuel for our jeep (one of four vehicles). My other fossil fuelers are a BMW 1150 motorcycle, a Honda Accord, Jeep and the Porsche. Haven't figured out a way to fuel all of them. Yet. If I could I would.