Brit biofuel

~Peter Knipper welcoming all to the grease car garage.

Of course, Unity College students have been making biodiesel, or making cars and trucks to burn raw vegetable oil, for several years. Jake is getting ready to test some home grown Waldo County soy oil we got from Farmer Perkins down the street in Albion, just as soon as he can use up the tankful of french fry grease he's running right now. (It takes a while to burn up the grease what with the gas mileage and the size of the tank in his Mercedes.) But this article shows how the market for biodiesel is working out in Britain.

BTW, at £1.18 a liter, and 3.8 liters to the US gallon, that makes UK diesel £4.72 a gallon, which is about $7-8. And you thought $4 was bad?


At 15p a litre, home-brew biodiesel is fuel of the future

Drivers spurn forecourt for the pub restaurant when they need to fill their tanks

* John Vidal, environment editor
* The Guardian,
* Saturday May 10 2008


Every few weeks Gordon Elliott drives 22 miles to the Hare and Hounds pub in Marple, Cheshire, collects a barrel of waste cooking oil from his stepdaughter and takes it back to his personal oil refinery in his garage in Leigh, near Bolton. The retired construction site manager then decants the liquid into a machine and adds a few chemicals.

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