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Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.....
If you want ON or OFF the DIESEL ”KnOcK” LIST just FReepmail me.....
This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days.....
Posted on 07/01/2008 7:40:43 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
Gabe Schwartzman, a tall, lanky high school senior from Montgomery County, can fill up the tank of his 1980 Volvo sedan for less than $20.
And he's happy to share his secret: "I take what would be thrown away and turn it into fuel."
Over the last several months, Gabe has been hunkered down in the basement of his parents' Garrett Park home, converting used fryer oil from a restaurant up the street into fuel for his car.
Brewing biodiesel, once a quaint hobby for green-minded citizens and budding chemists, is becoming more mainstream. The spike in gas prices is making fryer oil, the messy aftermath of super spuds and mozzarella sticks, a hot commodity. It has even spawned a crime wave. Law enforcement officials have reported a surge in fryer oil thefts. Officials suspect the culprits are finding a ready market for the waste oil.
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He should have just kept his mouth shut. Now, he's going to be looking at thousands of $$$$$$$ in fines.
Biodiesel PING!
Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.....
If you want ON or OFF the DIESEL ”KnOcK” LIST just FReepmail me.....
This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days.....
This is true...it is a fact in all states. Trick is not to let anyone know you are using biodiesel. By fuel with cash to set a precedence. Then make the switch.
Smart kid, but he should have kept it a secret. Now the government will come after him for all the fuel taxes he hasn’t paid.
Could someone post the DIRECTIONS to make your own bio-diesel?
May have too find me an OLD diesel mercedes for this !
My new cummins dodge piezo injectors puke and fail at bio diesel as we have discussed before !
Dang !
He should have paid the tax, if he has not done so.
The smarter drug dealers buy a tax stamp to avoid a stiff penalty when they are eventually caught.
IIRC there were lots of old posts about the tax man showing up at the door of someone doing this. Wait until this kid learns the REAL makeup of the high price of diesel. Knock knock knock (npi). Answer the door, kid, it’s the revenuers!!!
Ethanol is fine as long as your get a BATF permit (easy enough, believe it or not) and file quarterly usage returns with accompanying tax check with your state department of revenue. In fact, you can get a .53 cent per gallon of Ethanol produced as a federal tax credit, under current law.
During my regular commute over the past three weeks, I’ve seen a big jump in the number of old 1980s vintage diesel Mercedes and VW Rabbits on the highway, rust and all. I bet they either run on home-brewed biodiesel or have been converted to run on waste vegetable oil.
SHHHHHHH!
Yeah I am looking at an older 1982 300D right now as I toasted a set of injectors in my cummin dodge ! I have the bio diesel refiners from freedom fuel and make it for friends . As well I am in the process of stuffin / shoehorning an older 6BT cummins into my old FJ80 Landcruiser SUV ! Right now I commute with a buddy and his wife who I make the fuel for. Their car an older 1980 Mercedes they own.
I want too get back into my own WVO or home brew rig vs commutting with others as car pooling ties one down too strict hours and I don’t like such !
Of course the Dems are already against this, at their convention they aren't allowing ANY fried foods. Damn, they don't even want you to have the energy produced by their convention.
Revenuers don't take tax-dodging lightly.
You can actually make build the processors yourself for about half the price of the one shown in this ad, using common plumbing parts, a plastic tank, and an old water heater.
So do these home biodiesel refineries have to meet EPA and OSHA standards? There’s a reason John D. Rockefeller was able to run the old mom and pop refineries out of buisiness in the 19th century. Refining is very capital intensive and has tremendous economies of scale.
The law is very murky on this issue, but for small-scale pruivate home production, I would say no. However, technically speaking, you would have to get permission from your local county or township government to build and operate your own ethanol still or biodiesel reactor.
I got stuck behind one of those 80s diesel Mercedes last weekend on a winding country road with no passing lanes. It was belching out huge, stinky clouds of black smoke. Yech.
It was running on regular diesel then. Biodiesel produced from vegetable oil smells like frnech fries or potato chips, without much smoke.
I have added 10% fryer oil to my old 1976 truck and it smokes at first but ran normally after it warmed up. I plan to run it straight in my bulldozer. All I have to do is to heat it up so the lard does not plug the fuel filter. I could add 20% motor oil to it also. All I need to do is to let the ash settle out and filter it good. No need to go though all the mess and expense for old vehicles.
Now that is inginuity!
The 6BT is a straight 4 isn’t it?
But that would be work...
People want a ready made answer...
If it’s belching smoke on diesel, it will belch smoke on biodiesel.
Or when will the state revenue jackboots come after him for avoiding motor fuels tax?
No that is a 4BT ......and if you go the 4BT you want one from a delivery vehicle that has all the alternator and other fittings vs just a engine used for pumping or off road forks etc ......
The 6BT is a really tight fit yet has been done by a few folks determined as well the frame of the 92 FJ80 is well capable of handling the weight. I have the body off my frame right now and am looking for two Volvo portal axles etc ........it will not be a quick project as I want everything too fit and function on and off road !
I have the primary 38 and aux 34 gallon fuel tank is for the FJ80 and am looking at starting with bio diesel and running WVO and then purge with bio diesel and park so I don;t Crisco up the lines etc .........
On going project .....weekend and dime at a time per se !....:o)
Stay safe !
Buddy of mine runs straight veggie oil in his Tahoe. He buys it from some local grills and figures after his fuel cost to retrieve it he’s spending about $1.75/gallon.
I’ll bet that basement smells worse than the typical teen room.
I guess computer geeking in your parents’ basement is old-fashioned now . . .
this probably sounds funny, but do they still sound like diesels? I’m assuming so, but thought I’d ask.
I love the sound of old diesel mercedes. :)
Cool,
We expect pics when it’s finished!
LOL ! I will !
Been keeping notes etc as it is IMHO a good plan and will work with weight distribution of engine weight, added fuel capacity, portals, new suspension, center of gravity etc .......so far every what if scenario has been considered and researched etc and hopefully I get it right !
I’d say, you better pay the tax man his cut per gallon you use.... fuel tax payments don’t generally have exemptions for fuel you make yourself. Gubment still wants their .40 a gallon.
Pretty stupid to be yapping about it over the ‘net. Our son, stationed in Ft. Benning, GA, has seen officers “dipping tanks” of obviously private diesel P/Us in order to determine what kind of diesel fuel is being used and bio-diesel? No sweat, easily proven. Besides a $1,000.00 fine, the violators are reported to IRS and State for various tax evasions.
Farm diesel is common in the South, the technology is not that new and the results can ruin you. Probable Cause for pulling one over? Doesn’t seem to matter anymore does it? So what’s the answer? We’ve given the country away anyway, PAY THE PRICE—or—DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW, PAY LESS!! There ya go...
Boy those Oil companies have the market cornered.
You're right, I was stuck behind an old do-it-yourself school bus and the smell was awful. This fuel replacement fad can't last long when the neighbors start complaining about the odor. Al
That's it!!! I will apply for a Federal grant to study the sales patterns of fast food restaurants along your commuting route compared to a control route of conventional traffic. I'm willing to bet that a whole lot of commuters will be jonesin' for french fries by the time they get near home!
BFLR
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I think it would be a good idea to add another fuel filter to the CAT. One not so fine as the current one.
I mean what would you do. You have a by product that you can't get rid of and have to pay someone to haul off for you and suddenly people start mobbing your establishment looking for used fryer oil, now you don't have a waste product any longer you have a viable fuel source. It will no longer be free for the asking, at least not at a place I owned if the demand was big enough.
That is called free enterprise, supply and demand and the law will kick in when the demand gets big enough which will be soon at the rate they are printing stories about it these days.
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Pardon my ignorance...
I’ve heard of used motor oil furnaces and wondered about its use as a motor fuel...can used motor oil be made into a fuel for automobiles/internal combustion engines?
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