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Originally Posted by aico
Ok, I am reading the LA times today, and on the cover of the Calendar section is a story about a guy in Silverlake who has perfected a way to convert old diesel engines into engines that run off of 100% vegetable oil. I say again 100%, not the Biodiesel stuff you've heard about, but 100% vegetable oil. No, special diesel need to start, or anything, just pure 100% vegetable oil.
He charges $700 to convert old cars. He sells old diesel Mercedes Benz for about $3,500 - $9,000. His business is doing good, has a waiting list of people wanting cars.
He even sells kits so you can filter old used McDonalds oil to use.
Here's where the stupid part of our Gov't comes in. The fucking EPA has said that 100% vegetable oil is not an approved form of fuel by them, so anyone using it can and will be fined $2,000 up to $32,500.
So, in order to make it "legal" the guy has to add Diesel fuel to the mixture there by making it legal and more "dirty" and polluting.
Also, the Gov't is having a fit because they are not sure how to charge Fuel Tax on recycled vegetable oil...
We should all just shoot ourselves in the head now, because we will never win. Now matter what we do or how hard we try to make things better for ourselves, the fucking Gov't, who by the way was put in place to make things better for ourselves, will just come along and fucking ruin it.
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BTW, this technology nothing new. Its been going on since the 1980s. I have followed the entire movement for most of the time I have been on this planet and able to read.
And this isnt so much a statement of how stupid the government is. In fact, it seems to be more of a statement of how stupid the citizens of this country are and how smart the government is.
I have looked at buying a car and converting it, but I dont really have the time to deal with all of the mess and hassle assoicated with procuring and processing the oil. But I can tell you that if I did buy one and the EPA came out and fined me, I'd take it all the way up to and including putting a bullet between the eyes of the agents they'd send to arrest me or take my personal private property when I ignored thier warnings and sanctions and fines.
We need more people who are willing to put thier foot down and say "No!" and actually mean it. But we'll never have it. Because there are far too many people in this country who no longer care about true freedom and are quite willing to go along with whatever master plan the government puts forth so long as they can go to thier pathetic little jobs, live thier patheitic little lives in thier pathetic little homes located in pathetic little neighborhoods in which they drive thier pathetic SUVs and raise thier pathetic little kids (which seem to turn out to be more pathetic than thier pathetic parents) and then die a patheitc little death without accomplishing anything during thier time here other than managing to consume resources and pollute the ground with fecal matter and consume oxygen.