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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Waste Vegetable Oil vs. Biodiesel
  • Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:24:41 -0700 (PDT)

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.
> >
> >
> >
> > </HTML>








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