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deadparrot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 12:31 AM Original message |
Cooking oil cars turn the table on high fuel prices |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
1. And it smells just like chicken!! |
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truthisfreedom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 02:57 AM Response to Reply #1 |
10. or french fries, or onion rings, or fish, or donuts... |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 09:34 AM Response to Reply #10 |
16. Yes. Sorry, I was making an inside joke, but the couple of people |
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TheFarseer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 11:36 AM Response to Reply #10 |
23. I've read you can get rid of that smell |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 12:45 AM Response to Original message |
2. The article is misleading on one point, JFYI. |
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smtpgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 01:46 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Biodiesel & vegetable oil IS THE SAME THING |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 09:10 AM Response to Reply #5 |
14. No, very far from it. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 10:45 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. The process is called "transesterification"... |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 11:00 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Thanks. That's it. nt |
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smtpgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 08:02 PM Response to Reply #18 |
31. THANK YOU lumberjack_jeff!!!! |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 08:37 PM Response to Reply #18 |
34. You're wrong on the methanol mixing with the glycerine. |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 10:57 PM Response to Reply #34 |
42. Excess methanol is required for the chemical reaction. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 12:57 AM Response to Reply #42 |
43. Yeah, I figured out what you meant after I posted that. But the methanol |
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smtpgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 07:48 PM Response to Reply #14 |
27. Biodiesel can be used in it's purest form B100 |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 08:39 PM Response to Reply #27 |
35. Obviously, that's why my post says I use B100, nt. |
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smtpgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 07:51 PM Response to Reply #14 |
28. Haven't you read anything about this?? |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 08:45 PM Response to Reply #28 |
36. That's wrong, and your post below this says the opposite of this one. |
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smtpgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 08:01 PM Response to Reply #14 |
30. B80 is 80% plant/animal oils, 20% petrodiesel |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 08:52 PM Response to Reply #30 |
38. The first sentence in the post is right, the post header is wrong. |
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smtpgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 08:22 PM Response to Reply #14 |
33. Here is where the methanol comes from |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 09:02 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. Oh, now I see some of your and Jeff's confusion |
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Up2Late (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 03:46 AM Response to Reply #2 |
12. I agree this is a poorly written article, but that's about the only... |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 09:29 AM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Sorry, you're wrong, or you misunderstood me. |
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smtpgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 08:04 PM Response to Reply #15 |
32. How about Veggie Car, Veggie Van, National Biodiesel Board?? |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 09:04 PM Response to Reply #32 |
40. What are you asking? What about them? nt |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 09:39 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. One more thing, you do downplay the danger too much |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 01:06 AM Response to Original message |
3. Right wing campaign against imported oil?? |
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Guaranteed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 03:20 AM Response to Reply #3 |
11. Ain't that funny? |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 07:53 PM Response to Reply #3 |
29. Yeah...It's a mantra as they drive their fuckin' Humvees around the block |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 04:24 PM Response to Reply #3 |
46. that line stuck out to me, too |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 01:37 AM Response to Original message |
4. This is not a new idea, during the 1930s and 1940s on farms all over |
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smtpgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 01:48 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Rudolph Diesel, the inventor if the diesel engine |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 02:03 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Interesting, of course these cooking oils are not as cheap as diesel |
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smtpgirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 02:13 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. goearth.org |
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Up2Late (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 02:42 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. At $3.00+ per gallon, biodiesel is most certainly cheaper than... |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 08:53 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. That was more information than I needed about the used oil |
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astral (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 10:59 AM Response to Reply #13 |
19. Well, now, there'w MUCH WORSE things |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 08:46 PM Response to Reply #19 |
37. Thank you, the economies and efficiencies of corporate agriculture |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 11:34 AM Response to Reply #6 |
22. Diesel invented his engine specifically to NOT use petro products |
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ihelpu2see (935 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
21. Im using about 50% bio D blend in my 03 Golf and Im considering |
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reprobate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 12:28 PM Response to Original message |
24. Has everyone forgotten about algal biodiesel? |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 04:29 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. The work on Algacultural oil is largely theoretical |
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smacky44 (275 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 05:02 PM Response to Original message |
26. I like the idea but shudder to think about a world smelling like chicken |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-23-06 09:09 PM Response to Reply #26 |
41. Maybe it would just make everyone sick of fried food. |
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mom cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-24-06 09:03 AM Response to Original message |
44. I am using bio-diesel to heat my home and it is much cleaner. |
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krkaufman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-25-06 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
45. What?!?! How 'bout: The Right Wing comes around to Jimmy Carter's cause |
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