Vegetable Oil a Stepping Stone in Diminishing Diesel Fuel Consumption
Filed Under (Alternative vehicle power, Biofuels) by cheryl on 20-10-2008
Tagged Under : alternative fuel sources, alternative fuels, vegetable oil, vegetable oil cars, vegetable oil fuel, waste vegetable oil
Engineers as well as people looking for alternative fuel options have been experimenting with the use of vegetable oil as a fuel for over a hundred years. The petroleum shortages in the 30’s and 40’s catalyzed the research of vegetable oil as fuel and again in the 70’s and 80’s. This research shortly ended when gas prices fell and there was a greater interest in using biodiesel as an alternative fuel where extensive vehicle changes were not necessary. Read the rest of this entry »