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Waste Vegetable Oil Project Cars

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Spic-N-SpaN
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I'm considering buying a 1990 Jetta TDI, getting a grease kit and start making my own fuel. Figure I'll save some money, save the planet and all that other hippy bullshit.


For career ideas, something that dwells in the back of my mind is leaving this place better then we found it, which is near impossible but may aswell start somewhere. In school I'd like to study to make a more efficient or alternate energy vehicle.

I tend to be a big picture thinker, but before I go and blow a bunch of money anyone want to stop me? Or has anyone done this and have any tips or useful websites?
Thanks
Dec 11 2012 2:22AM
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Chunter
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At least get a cool Diesel like a Passat. Your not a pink name...
Dec 11 2012 2:25AM
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Spic-N-SpaN
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I guess I should of known what to expect from NS.

Also before you were born jettas where cool
Dec 11 2012 2:31AM
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Jeebus.
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Damn hippies
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Dec 11 2012 2:35AM
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Chunter
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Pretty sure you mean Golf. Jetta's have never been cool. The TDI's help...but its still a Jetta.
Dec 11 2012 3:00AM
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razors-chaz
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Before you go splurging all your cash on the kit i would have a serious look into where you are going to source your oil from because if there is any other competitor around you they might already have a monopoly on the oil rendering your job near impossible. Also speak to the managers of resteraunts etc to see what their set up for disposal is and see if its economically viable to buy off them at a better price than they get already. No t sure how you would do it but look into the market your selling into and whether people around you would buy into it and at what price you can do. Basically do a bunch of market research.
Dec 11 2012 7:08AM
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razors-chaz
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Double post but whatever. Had a car before which ran on a veg oil/deisel mix. Its pretty good, the price wasnt bad and you got to smell sausages as you drive.
Dec 11 2012 7:10AM
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ski.cats
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burning vegetable oil is still relying on combustion to do work.  its still going to put carbon into the atmosphere and combustion engines are still god awful inefficient.
Dec 11 2012 11:05AM
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Randy_Quench
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you have no idea what you are talking about.
Dec 11 2012 11:08AM
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*simba*
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Kid, chances are you're younger than the member you just quoted.

Also, you're not going to make a difference. ever.
Dec 11 2012 11:12AM
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lands11
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Yeah but even if we assume burning bio-diesel releases more carbon from combustion than regular diesel, regular diesle still releases more carbon in whole because you must account for how that diesel got there. So all the carbon released in drilling, extraction, refining, transportation etc. of regular diesel adds up to more than how much was released in the making of bio-diesel. You have to look at the carbon emissions throughout the entire life of the product you are looking at, not just the final step, which is combustion in this case. So OP is actually helping by using bio-diesel over regular diesel.
Dec 11 2012 11:45AM
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ski.cats
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i assume by "helping" you mean "doing less harm." im not trying to hate, but the idea, or at least implementation of bio-diesel has come way too late and its implementation will only result in inaction of actual change
Dec 11 2012 11:57AM
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iSmokeweed
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Yeah.... jettas are girls cars.

gti/r32/golfs/polos/passats are alright
Dec 11 2012 12:07PM
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lands11
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Doing less harm is definitely helping, it may not be as good as doing no harm, but every little bit does help. If OP's only options right now are regular diesel or bio-diesel it certainly helps for him to use the bio. I do completely agree with you though that bio-diesel is not a viable option for our future.
Dec 11 2012 12:11PM
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Spic-N-SpaN
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Thanks for all the replys. Yeah if I could make a car that ran on air I'd try to make that, I just thought this would be kind of a cool little project to do.

And I guess everyone has opinions on what looks good, and I ways thought older jettas werent terrible looking. But that's beside the point because how I found that car was searching "diesel" $1000-$2000 on Craigslist, looks really arent a concern to me.
Dec 11 2012 3:21PM
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