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I found this interesting article from SW Texas about a fellow who brews up his own biodiesel fule for his truck and makes it go on a fraction of what retail gas costs. It is small town America at its best. He has a freind who runs a restaurant and can provide the oil needed to make the biodiesel, he has been tinkering for years with alternative fuels for his cars, and he drives a big truck that would cost him an arm and leg to fill up.
A local mechanic has found a way to beat the high costs most of us are paying at the pump. It’s simple – rather than buying diesel for his one ton crew cab duelie pick-up, he simply pours used vegetable oil that has been filtered into the tank. The process is not new. Paulino Gonzalez says it dates back to the late 1800’s when the diesel engine was first introduced in Germany. But it fell out of favor because in those days prior to fast foods franchises, the newly processed diesel fuel was cheaper than vegetable oil. “Sometimes it actually came out of the ground where they could burn it in diesel motors” he said.
Gonzalez said it normally takes a day to make a batch of bio-diesel but he has a system that strains and filters the oil to remove bits of French fries or corn chips that takes five minutes to make 40 gallons and he said, “This is running on used non-shortned vegetable oil or any oil.”
He say that sometimes when you drive behind him his truck smells like the local chips restaurant, but it is small price to pay for cheaper fuel and better miles the gallon.
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