When I bought this domain, I really never thought diesel fuel or gasoline would get that high. Now we see fuel prices pretty close to that and in many places exceeding $3. I’m a cheapskate at heart I guess, and I’ve had a 30 year interest in alternative energy sources. Why, I even wrote my Senior Term Paper about Alcohol Fuel! If I remember right the title was “Alcohol, the Next Major Fuel Source”.
Anyway, about 10 years ago when diesel fuel started approaching $1.50 or so I decided to look at alternatives. I knew that Rudolph Diesel invented the diesel engine to run on vegetable oils. Of course the modern diesel engine is a little different than what he had, but not that much.
So I made some BioDiesel. That worked fine, but it involved buying lye and methanol, and in the end it cost some money to make. Then I started looking at running Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO). In my pre-Powerstroke Ford, it’s a simple matter of filtering it down to 10 microns and making sure the oil is at least 180 degrees when it hits the injectors. Not too tough, but does take some effort.