Letters to the Editor
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Homer Simpson did it too
This goes deeper than Salon's 2000 story. Homer Simpson was doing it in 1998.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lard_of_the_Dance
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The ironic thing
Is that hippies, Greens and others have to hope like the dickens that Americans continue to suck up all the fried fast food they can bloat themselves up with in order to ensure a steady supply of cheap fuel stock. A slimmer America is a darker colder less mobile one.
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Actually, Electro-Robot...
It doesn't just have to be recycled junk food oil that you use; one can make their biodiesel using fresh veggie oil (i.e. that has touched nary a french fry*) for about $1 a gallon.
With a little research, you can even make a winter blend of homemade biodiesel that won't coagulate, etc. even in Snow Belt winters. I'm planning to buy an old diesel Suburban and install the biodiesel kit on it; it will offer the towing/hauling capacity of a full-size SUV with significantly better mileage...and for ~ $1 a frickin' gallon?!? Try to beat that.
* - Are you Repubs still insisting on callin' em Freedom Fries, E-R?
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P.S. - @ jargent
That was a classic gem of a Simpsons episode!
My favorite parts: 1.) Homer getting in the Krusty Burger cashier kid's oily/pimply face and breathily intoning, "My God, you're greasy!"
2.) Willy rippin' off his shirt (revealing a super-ripped Scottish 6-pack/torso), just before he battles Homer to recover his "retirement grease".
=) ;-)
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@Electro
If this guy was going to sell his stolen cooking oil for $1.35 a gallon then it isn't exactly hippies making biodeisel in their garages, is it.
There are two commercial and one co-op biodeisel refineries that I know of just in Oregon. California, most likely has several times that many. Washington State is ahead of both of them. This isn't a kitchen chemistry thing anymore, it's big buisness. And it's undoubtedly going to get bigger.
And, no. Most of those commercial refineries don't use frenchfry oil as a feedstock anymore. There isn't enough of it to go around. The days of converting free waste oil from your local restaruant are about over, at least on the west coast.
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While lard would normally be kosher
for powering your vehicle, there would be a major problem on Passover. I'd have to clean my car for leavened, which would be impossible, so I'd have to sell my car to a non-Jew for the 8 days of Passover.
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lonewolfy
I wouldn't know what Republicans call them. You should ask one.
Also you need to clarify what the tax status is because technically, it's a State and Federal crime to use untaxed fuel in your vehicle. In my state if they want to make a big deal out of it, it's a $2500 fine.
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Biodiesel apocalypse ie deep frying for Iraq
I wonder how much diesel is going to Iraq and Afghanistan to establish the American way of life which included trans-fat free deep-fat frying?