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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Out here, people now run ads offering to buy and sell the stuff, usually 
between 1 & 2 bucks a gallon.  I have no idea of the market.  I personally 
don't have ,any, except for general, knowledge of WVO or Biodiesel...bford


--- On Sun, 8/17/08, Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net> wrote:

> From: Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Waste Vegetable Oil vs. Biodiesel
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, August 17, 2008, 1:16 PM
> There are many factors.  Has to do with the area you are in,..............
  Anyone saying otherwise is telling tall tales.  Those
> systems don't 
> work anymore than those systems they used to sell for cars
> where it was 
> going to miraculously make it so you never had to buy new
> oil.
> 
> Does the biodiesel work work, yes.  Does it work to get it
> local.  Sure it 
> does in some cases.  In lots of cases.  May not work in
> *your* area but it 
> does for a whole bunch of folks.
> 
> We know you don't like the concept and don't
> believe in the concept.  We get 
> that.  However, that doesn't negate the fact that it
> works for quite a few 
> people.  There are now hundreds of co-ops that have been
> set up and that is 
> who is buying up the waste oil more than any other entity.
> 
> Plus, generally speaking, the folks who do the WVO
> biodiesel are folks who 
> are into conserving.  They aren't folks out there
> driving for the heck of 
> it.  Seems to me, it would be a concept embrassed by true
> homesteaders. 
> Those folks are generally into conserving.
> 
> Lynda
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> >

> >
> > My guess is that restaurant with gallons and gallons
> of discarded oil and 
> > the
> > manager who is so grateful that you are willing to
> haul it off for him is
> > largely a myth.  Sure, there are examples here and
> there of people 
> > actually
> > running vehicles from discarded restaurant oils but
> those are isolated 
> > curiosities.
.  Same with 
> > restaurant
> > oil, thinks I.
> >
> >
> >
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