I knew that rickshaw-wallahs in Pune mixed kerosene with petrol, about Mumbai taxi drivers switching to LPG, about Delhi transport using CNG, but never knew this! As gas prices rise in the US, people are turning to recycled vegetable oil as an alternative to diesel. Vegetable oil, in itself costs more than diesel, but the recycled variety is dirt cheap (sometimes, even free). Restaurants, it seems pay to have their used oil disposed, so they would happily give it to you for free. After some googling, I found a fair amount of webpages talking about the same. Also found out that this guy has been at it for a couple of years, and also makes a case for it, environment-wise.
Heres more. Whaddya think .. neat? or weird?
I think as long as I am getting to the places I want to, one can use recycled water to run them vehicles...
Posted by: toinks at June 9, 2004 09:11 AMRecent BBC Article - What will we drive when the oil runs out?
Posted by: Chinmay at June 10, 2004 01:00 AMsurprisingly .. me and josh were talking abt it when he saw some diesel vehicles and autorikshaws in India ...
:) give windcheater...
Posted by: toinks at June 11, 2004 08:27 AMToinks - It's red .. and cool .. you'll have to go to my place in pune and get it. :-)
Posted by: anya at June 11, 2004 10:07 AMIn 1911 Rudolf Diesel stated: "The diesel engine can be fed with vegetable oils and would help considerably in the development of agriculture of the countries which use it." In 1912, Diesel said "the use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in course of time as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of the present time."
Wake up anya, South Africa almost went to war during WWII using veggie-fuel for it's heavy vehicles!
Posted by: Amol Hatwar at June 13, 2004 04:56 PM