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Alternate fuels for cars

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From: John Scott Hamilton
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1989 05:21
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AWE INSPIRING!!!!  Even these words cannot adequately describe my
reaction to an article in the November 8, 1989 issue of _The Wall
Street Journal_.  A tinkerer has come up with a process and a minimal
car conversion to take a normal auto and have it run on VEGETABLE OIL.
That's right, the stuff you cook french fries in.  It doesn't even
have to be new oil, the used stuff will do (once you strain out the
floaties).  The only additive needed is a small amount of a mixture of
water and methanol which is injected into the engine in order to keep
the fuel injectors from clogging.

Fuel efficiency is the same for diesel.  At about $2.60 a gallon
wholesale, the oil is more expensive.  But that price could come down
if enough people were to start using the fuel.  The tinkerers
modification allowed the use of either diesel or vegetable oil at a
flip of a switch.

Read the article, then comment or flame away!

Hammy
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From: jhamilto@ics.uci.edu (John Scott Hamilton)
Newsgroups: ca.environment,sci.environment
Subject: Alternate fuels for cars
Summary: !!!!!!
Keywords: recycling, autos, vegetable oil, methane
Message-ID: <1989Nov8.212129.28257@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 89 05:21:30 GMT
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Organization: University of California, Irvine - Program in Linguistics
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Posted: Thu Nov  9 06:21:30 1989