[The Red Zone]

I've heard it sure smells good. Like French Freedom fries.

But, it is hard on fuel systems. You know the golden crud you get on oven utensils after greasing them and baking something? Which is difficult to scrub off? That's what happens to veggie oil in engines.

[logic]

There is a process where lots of oil, small amount of methanol and a tiny amount of something else (Lye? it's in the book, just can't remember yet. just starting my latte!) that produces a substance that is almost exactly diesel fuel and doesn't have that 'caking' problem. However it is hard on rubber fuel lines, they must be replaced with synthetic rubber (modern diesels already have this from the factory so no upgrade needed)

Or you can heat the pure oil and then run it directly into the engine without problems but you have to switch back to diesel fuel for a couple minutes to purge the injectors before shutdown and when starting. That would require significant 're-engineering.' Just the sort of thing that gets me excited, constantly tinkering with something so I can be late for work every third day or so :) (does that make me a masochist or is there something else required?)

I am blaming my cat for all my errors too, just because he's at home and I'm at work is irrelevant! It's the thought that counts right?