Posted on 05/06/2014 4:01:56 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Grease is the word....
I have no idea why people go to all the trouble to make biodiesel when you can run a vehicle on used vegetable oil. there’s a local that’s been running a Cummins on SVO for years. All he does is filter it.
What’s swarf going for?
Someone writes a version of this story every two or three years.
If not, he certainly won't get any grief from me. Where we live highway taxes are pissed away on social projects.
The dead give away for the DOT guys is the exhaust of these users smell like French fries or whatever the oil has been used to cook.
Also this fuel gets real thick when it gets cold, say below 32 degrees and requires heaters to keep it from solidifying.
A friend of mine made and sold these filtration systems. Started a few years ago when fuel costs were very high. He ended up selling more overseas than here in the US because it is a tedious and messy way to go. It takes time to go round up used grease every day or so and fast food places now have caught on to the scam.
Me, I would rather spend my time being more productive generating more income in order to buy fuel than waste time with this time consuming messy, messy system.
By the way, the last I heard the states were working on laws requiring all manufacturers of these systems to report citizens that buy the things. If you did not report your mileage and pay your road taxes you got a visit from the tax man.
The scrap dealer takes fingerprints and mails the check. He does take the material but usually doesn’t end up paying.
Arrests are rare but have happened. It is mostly the tweakers who are arrested. One group of idiots stole a bronze statue from downtown and tried to sell it as scrap. They were all arrested.
Security would be a wash. The cost would not be worth the little bit that dissapears frm time to time.
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