OT oil shortage was: Celebration (Not intended to be off ensive, possible humor)

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Mon Jul 9 15:43:33 2001

There'd probably be a substantial weight gain throughout the potato-eating
public. The exhaust of the typical diesel VW burning recycled french-fry oil
smells of french-fries. Who can resist that?

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck McManis" <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 10:43 AM
Subject: RE: Re: OT oil shortage was: Celebration (Not intended to be off
ensive, possible humor)


>
> > That's great. That's exact the kind of inventiveness that is needed
> > to solve the energy crisis. However I think you'll agree that it would
> > be rediculous to require that ALL cars run on chip oil.
>
> To Chad and others, yes this is the same oil used to fry french fries at
> McDonalds etc. And yes you can run your diesel engine on it. Diesels will
> burn most anything that can be flowed through them. A friend of mine did
> this (put a combination of vegetable oil and a thinner) into his car when
> he went in for his California emissions check. Since vegetable oil breaks
> down into slightly different components he really confused the guys but he
> passed! Building a methanol digester is probably the best.
>
> --Chuck
>
>
>
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