The fact that vegatable oil is more abundant, and is renewable, and has no pollution, the only thing stopping us is the pure glutony of our economic leaders.
Bio-diesel is expensive to produce. Somewhere on the order of $7/gallon. If you are willing to pay that, by all means convert to using bio-diesel. The reason we use oil for diesel is because it’s still the cheaper alternative. When gas prices hit $7/gallon (or over), I’ll be happy to purchase the bio-diesel over the regular diesel. It’s a matter of economics.
A lot of people talk about how cheap bio-diesel fuel is, well that’s because they are getting used vegetable oil from restaurants to do the conversion. If you had to outright pay for the vegetable oil that would be a different story.
However, if you’re willing to go to it, here’s a good site for information (Saw it from)
Not easy if you have a gasoline engine. Very easy if you have a diesel powered car. Diesel is much better than hybrid as well. 40-60 mpg and the motors are cheaper and run longer.
If you can make bread . . .
you can make biodiesel with a FuelMeister™ !
110V Domestic US Version – Regularly $2,995 plus shipping & handling
Model Number: FBP-40GD Quantity:
220V International Version – $3,295 plus shipping & handling
Model Number: FBP-150LA Quantity:
I don’t know where this $7/gallon figure came from but it’s way off. If you want to produce your own biodiesel it’s around 70 cents/gallon, and buying from a retailer it’s only slightly higher then regular diesel. Since your car needs little to no conversation. It’s very easy to convert to biodiesel and you’ll be helping the environment and freeing us from foreign oil.
It’s very easy and any body can make this just with a little patience
Vegetable oil is much more viscous (thicker) than either petro-diesel or biodiesel. The purpose of mixing it or blending it with other fuels is to lower the viscosity to make it thinner so that it flows more freely through the fuel system into the combustion chamber.
If you’re mixing veg-oil with petroleum diesel or kerosene (same as #1 diesel) you’re still using fossil-fuel — cleaner than most, but still not clean enough, many would say. Still, for every gallon of vegetable oil you use, that’s one gallon of fossil-fuel saved, and that much less climate-changing carbon in the atmosphere.
People use various mixes, ranging from 10% vegetable oil and 90% petro-diesel to 90% vegetable oil and 10% petro-diesel. Some people just use it that way, start up and go, without pre-heating it (which makes veg-oil much thinner), or even use pure vegetable oil without pre-heating it, which would make it much thinner.
You might get away with it with an older Mercedes 5-cylinder IDI diesel, which is a very tough and tolerant motor — it won’t like it but you probably won’t kill it. Otherwise, it’s not wise.
To do it properly you’ll need what amounts to an SVO system with fuel pre-heating anyway, preferably using pure petro-diesel or biodiesel for starts and stops. In which case there’s no need for the mixes.
Blends with various solvents and/or with unleaded gasoline are “experimental at best”, little or nothing is known about their effects on the combustion characteristics of the fuel or their long-term effects on the engine.
Higher viscosity is not the only problem with using vegetable oil as fuel. Veg-oil has different chemical properties and combustion characteristics from the petroleum diesel fuel for which diesel engines and their fuel systems are designed. Diesel engines are high-tech machines with very precise fuel requirements, especially the more modern, cleaner-burning diesels. They’re tough but they’ll only take so much abuse.
There’s no guarantee of it, but using a blend of up to 20% veg-oil of good quality is said to be safe enough for older diesels, especially in summer. Otherwise using veg-oil fuel needs either a professional SVO solution or biodiesel.
Mixes and blends are generally a poor compromise. But mixes do have an advantage in cold weather. As with biodiesel, some kerosene or winterised petro-diesel fuel mixed with straight vegetable oil lowers the temperature at which it starts to gel.
More about fuel mixing and blends.
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Bio-diesel is expensive to produce. Somewhere on the order of $7/gallon. If you are willing to pay that, by all means convert to using bio-diesel. The reason we use oil for diesel is because it’s still the cheaper alternative. When gas prices hit $7/gallon (or over), I’ll be happy to purchase the bio-diesel over the regular diesel. It’s a matter of economics.
A lot of people talk about how cheap bio-diesel fuel is, well that’s because they are getting used vegetable oil from restaurants to do the conversion. If you had to outright pay for the vegetable oil that would be a different story.
However, if you’re willing to go to it, here’s a good site for information (Saw it from)
Biodisel causes failure in the car, because it has special components. It “eats” rubber too.
Not easy if you have a gasoline engine. Very easy if you have a diesel powered car. Diesel is much better than hybrid as well. 40-60 mpg and the motors are cheaper and run longer.
with enough money it’s a snap
If you can make bread . . .
you can make biodiesel with a FuelMeister™ !
110V Domestic US Version – Regularly $2,995 plus shipping & handling
Model Number: FBP-40GD Quantity:
220V International Version – $3,295 plus shipping & handling
Model Number: FBP-150LA Quantity:
I don’t know where this $7/gallon figure came from but it’s way off. If you want to produce your own biodiesel it’s around 70 cents/gallon, and buying from a retailer it’s only slightly higher then regular diesel. Since your car needs little to no conversation. It’s very easy to convert to biodiesel and you’ll be helping the environment and freeing us from foreign oil.
It’s very easy and any body can make this just with a little patience
Vegetable oil is much more viscous (thicker) than either petro-diesel or biodiesel. The purpose of mixing it or blending it with other fuels is to lower the viscosity to make it thinner so that it flows more freely through the fuel system into the combustion chamber.
If you’re mixing veg-oil with petroleum diesel or kerosene (same as #1 diesel) you’re still using fossil-fuel — cleaner than most, but still not clean enough, many would say. Still, for every gallon of vegetable oil you use, that’s one gallon of fossil-fuel saved, and that much less climate-changing carbon in the atmosphere.
People use various mixes, ranging from 10% vegetable oil and 90% petro-diesel to 90% vegetable oil and 10% petro-diesel. Some people just use it that way, start up and go, without pre-heating it (which makes veg-oil much thinner), or even use pure vegetable oil without pre-heating it, which would make it much thinner.
You might get away with it with an older Mercedes 5-cylinder IDI diesel, which is a very tough and tolerant motor — it won’t like it but you probably won’t kill it. Otherwise, it’s not wise.
To do it properly you’ll need what amounts to an SVO system with fuel pre-heating anyway, preferably using pure petro-diesel or biodiesel for starts and stops. In which case there’s no need for the mixes.
Blends with various solvents and/or with unleaded gasoline are “experimental at best”, little or nothing is known about their effects on the combustion characteristics of the fuel or their long-term effects on the engine.
Higher viscosity is not the only problem with using vegetable oil as fuel. Veg-oil has different chemical properties and combustion characteristics from the petroleum diesel fuel for which diesel engines and their fuel systems are designed. Diesel engines are high-tech machines with very precise fuel requirements, especially the more modern, cleaner-burning diesels. They’re tough but they’ll only take so much abuse.
There’s no guarantee of it, but using a blend of up to 20% veg-oil of good quality is said to be safe enough for older diesels, especially in summer. Otherwise using veg-oil fuel needs either a professional SVO solution or biodiesel.
Mixes and blends are generally a poor compromise. But mixes do have an advantage in cold weather. As with biodiesel, some kerosene or winterised petro-diesel fuel mixed with straight vegetable oil lowers the temperature at which it starts to gel.
More about fuel mixing and blends.