Is it really this easy? If so, why aren't we doing this?

Question

We don’t have to drive tiny cars, drill the Florida Coast or destroy valuable fields of corn to solve the gas crisis. We already have the alternative fuel we need. We can stop our absolute dependence on the Middle East and Exxon-Mobile in a matter of months. Seriously. The answer is simple and the fuel is already here, processed and ready to use. It's sitting on grocery store shelves and in deep fryers all across America.



The diesel engine was originally designed to burn vegetable oil. With a simple, cheap modification any diesel engine will burn vegetable oil. Ask your mechanic. Google it. It’s true. Not only will fresh Wesson get you there in a diesel, but the oil collected and dumped every day from restaurants and institutions across the country can be strained and poured right into your tank. How wonderful is that? A twice used fuel with no emissions and no dependency on anyone. No one. Not the Middle East and not the Oil Companies.



Tractor trailers criss-cross this country constantly burning thousands of gallons of diesel every day. Those engines could be modified to burn vegetable oil immediately. This would slash transportation cost, which is driving prices on everything we buy. Why don't we hear this on the news? Why aren't they shouting from the rooftops that every diesel from a Mercedes to a Tractor Trailer will burn vegetable oil? Greed. Imagine running out of fuel in the middle of the night. The only light in sight turns out to be a home. No gas, but Granny has vegetable oil in the kitchen. Pour it in your tank and you’re on your way. It's an oil executive’s nightmare.



The long and short term benefits of burning vegetable oil instead of fossil fuel are wide ranging. Fuel prices will drop to nothing. How does 40 or 50 cents a gallon sound? Without Co2 emissions Global Warming will return to normal, Child Asthma will virtually disappear and Los Angeles will lose it's infamous smog. Maybe best of all we will no longer need Middle East Oil. This takes countries like Iran out of the economic equation for us. They can't threaten us with oil we don't need. Sounds too good to be true, too easy to be real, but it's not. If we burn vegetable oil we will be healthier and wealthier, the Earth will begin to heal and our children will have a cleaner, brighter future.

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We need cheap, clean fuel. The direction we choose now will plot a course for decades to come. Don't let Bought Politicians and Oil Companies decide our future on this. What's in our best interest is not in theirs.



You don't have to wait for someone else to do something about this. You can have your mechanic do it, or you can do it yourself. Visit www.GreaseCar.com and see how easy it is to burn Green. Take a look at the GreaseCar Profile below - He gets his fuel from the Thai Restaurant down the street. Pretty Exciting!



Pepper Newman

www.greasecar.com

I just came across this article and found it interesting. I'm not saying I'm against it or for it, because I don't know if this is an actual resolution to our oil crisis. I just think if it's really this simple, as the article makes it seem, then why wouldn't we be utilizing this type of energy?

Answer 1

There is also progress being made with soy based diesel fuel, and hemp seed oil can be processed into a burnable fuel. Your first responder was correct, there simply isn't enough vegetable oil to make this a mass market problem solver, but give it time, money is a great motivator. And the first ingine that Diesel himself designed was not made to run on vegetable oil, it was designed to run on coal dust.

Answer 2

Biodiesel (and vegetable oil) isn't anything new it is just expensive to produce. Efficiency will hopefully improve. Now that fuel prices are rising it makes more sense. Two years ago it took more energy to produce these alternatives than you could go to the pump and buy fossil diesel for.

Sorry to be a smart a$$ but If semi trucks did this for one day vegetable oil would be @ $10 a gallon. There just isn't enough out there - simple economics my friend.

Do you have any idea how much soybean crops it would take to be self sufficient? We (the US) don't have enough land.

We can make an impact though. Large fishing vessels have been getting "converted" around here for years because of their constant (and high) fuel consumption. This is part of the reason that bulk oil (non-food grade) has more than doubled in price in the past couple years - there is much more demand.

Answer 3

The reason we don't do it is that we don't have anything close to enough vegetable oil to make a dent in our energy needs.

Answer 4

You go ahead.
Thanks.


Yours: Grumpy