...or some other sturdy diesel vehicle, just so I can convert to using Biodiesel. The City of Victoria seems to be seriously embracing the concept with a pilot project in conjunction with several commercial fleets including BCTransit. Nifty.
If you haven't heard of it, biodiesel is created by refining fats and oils such as canola oil -- to remove glycerin which in turn can be used to make soap. In fact, if I had a garage, I might start making my own biodiesel (and soap).
This is really interesting, I had no idea about all this... might have to go the grochery store to fill up the cars, I suppose! Haha.
ReplyDeleteThe best parts of bio-diesel:
ReplyDeletea) it's made from excess chip oil and the like. For the first time ever, McDonald's would be making the world a better place
b) while money from gas sales goes to fund terrorism; bio-diesel money can stay here, near the chip-bloated masses.
c) it takes a small operation to turn grease into fuel. Several campuses (including UBC) are doing it to fuel campus vehicles. In other words, you could have a mom'n'pop fuel manufacturer who could thumb their nose at Big Oil and OPEC.
Stefanie: It's not quite that simple -- though apparently some cars can be modified to run on "SVO" (straight vegetable oil).
ReplyDeleteI was also "giggling" over the fact that one of the main emissions is NOx (nitrogen oxide) until I figured out that it is not actually laughing gas (which is N2O or Dinitrogen Monoxide).
Mike: I know! And I wouldn't mind being one of those mom'n'pop fuel folks. Especially if it meant, get in now, get bought out by ESSO later. :)