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Brew Your Own Auto Fuel For 41 Cents A Gallon
Iphtashu Fitz writes "Damon Toal-Rossi of Iowa City, Iowa had enough of the high price of gasoline, so it didn't take too much for his friend to talk him into switching to biodiesel, an alternative fuel based on soy or vegetable oil. But after a few months of driving 10 miles to a biodiesel fuel station he decided it was time to start brewing his own. It didn't take him long to find a recipe for biodiesel, and with used cooking oil that he gets for free from a nearby restaurant, he figures he's now getting 44 miles per gallon out of his diesel powered VW Golf and only paying 41 cents a gallon. According to the National Biodiesel Board the number of biodiesel stations in the US rose by 50% last year (to a whopping 200). The president of the American Soybean Association claims biodiesel has almost the same amount of energy as petroleum-based diesel, but cleans an engine's fuel injectors and cuts down on the number of required oil changes. Perhaps these are some of the reasons why diesel powered cars are making a comeback in the US."
Faggy hippie fuels for faggy hippie cars for faggie hippies.
Send him to gitmo ASAP. He is an affront to our glorious god-fearing leader George Walker Bush.
.... with millions of people starving to death in the world, that we use food (soybeans, etc) to make fuel. It's really sad actually.
"Entropy is the bad-guy, and he is everywhere"
Darryl Hannah is a tree huggin' hippie vegan and I, for one, look forward to the day us non-vegans fry these hippies up in some vegetable oil, convert that used oil to bio-diesel, pour that diesel into our dualie Ford F350s, drive to Oregon, cut down a swath of old growth forest, and make tooth picks to pick the hippie from our teeth. It's the circle of life baby!
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You have to believe that wasting other people's time is not a waste of your own time.
You have to believe that if you just click reload fast enough and get first post privilages, you'll somehow do something useful.
eh fuck it.
You just have to be an asshole.
"biodeisel is renewable and probably doesn't carry as many nasty political ramifications as fossil fuel"
Sure, until the price of food skyrockets because farmland that was once used for food is now being used to power cars, then it might become an issue.
Seriously, all the plants we farm in this country combined can't fix enough energy to supply our demand for oil. That means that as long as oil consumption remains what it is, biodeisel will never even come close to replacing petroleum. If it ever does, it'll only be because gas is so expensive that most of the people using it now can't afford it. So by the time it is largely adopted, biodeisell will many times more expensive than petroleum is today. This will also mean more expensive food.