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.