Veggie Power
In lighter news I have found an alternative to buying a smart car that is Rachael approved: the greasecar. Yes, that's right, a car that runs on vegetable oil! You see it all started some time ago when Rudolf Diesel invented an engine that ran on peanut oil...zooph...fast forward to today, where the diesel engine is relatively unchanged and presto! an engine capable of running on any kind of used vegetable oil. Now there are some mods needed to keep the oil from congealing at lower temps (essentially you install a whole separate tank and fuel line for the veg power), but it runs the same and removes almost all of the downsides of diesel fuel (no carcinigens, no excess CO2) and reduces the already stellarly low emissions of the diesel engine. The only down side is collecting used oil and filtering it, but once you have that down you are totally independent of the petroleum industry and have free fuel for life and you get to smell like french fries everywhere you go!
So you can all jump on board by visiting the site www.greasecar.com and buy diesel cars to convert and we can all go together to pump oil out of the back of a chinese restaurant, yeah!
posted by Chuck @ 5:27 PM
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I overheard some businessman talking about this on the plane a while back, and they seem to believe that the petro industry is going to lobby against the use of grease-cars. This should be obvious, but the result in the supreme courts will be very interesting. I think there are some chemicals you have to add to the grease to maximize efficiency, but grease is REALLY cheap right now. Another thing that remains to be seen is the inflation of the price of waste grease... Should be an interesting battle.
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