Run your car on vegetable oil

Do you have left over vegetable cooking oil at home in your fryer? How about using that to run your car? That is exactly what some diesel car owners are doing across the country. There are two options for running your diesel car on vegetable oil. One is to convert the car to consume regular vegetable or fryer oil. The other is to use bio fuel in the car without conversion. Converting an older model Ford or Mercedes Diesel car to use vegetable oil as fuel is simple and can be done with conversion kits being sold on the Internet. The cost of the conversion kits starts at a few hundred dollars and goes up.

It turns out that when Rudolf Diesel introduced his Diesel engine at the Paris expo in 1900 he demonstrated it using Peanut oil. Though bio-fuel is more expensive than gasoline, fryer oil is cheap or sometimes even free. Restaurants have to pay someone to haul the grease away and therefore might be happy to offload it to you.

With the conversion kit, your car will start off by using conventional diesel and after the engine is heated up switches over to fryer oil. The oil is passed through a 10 micron filter to remove sediments before passing through the injectors and combustion chambers. The exhaust of the car smells like french fries and might entice you to stop at a McDonalds on your way. Other than that, there are enough die-hard fans of bio-diesel who claim it works great.