Biodiesel - Run Your Car on Used Fast Food Oil


	Biodiesel - Run Your Car on Used Fast Food Oil

Marcariel

9-10-2007 9:19 AM

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biodiesel, fuel, cooking oil, vegetable oil

Marcariel says:

What a surprise to discover that the diesel engine was invented 100 years ago to run on vegetable oil!! Daryl Hannah says she runs her car on used french fry oil she gets from a local fast food restaurant! She takes it to a local processor who filters it for use in her car.

Daryl Hannah says, "we’re a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase." I'd switch ... wouldn't you?

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