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Thom,

Yeah I've read that article... and can't disagree with it. Large scale commercial production of ethanol and even biodiesel is financially questionable. Do we want to cut back food farming to promote growing canola for fuel? Who knows. But, for people able to produce fuel from waste products, it's a win-win. There's a fish plant in Nova Scotia that was heating their buildings with biodiesel made from their waste fish oil, at one point they were even offereing biodiesel for free to their employees. But, those waste products are limited... in some areas guys are fighting over used oil from restaurants.

I just got back from a 1400 mile roundtrip, total spend on fuel: $0. So from my personal situation, it makes a lot of economic sense. Every friday, I used to fill up my car for $40-50. Now, every friday I stop at the Far East Takeout to pick up free oil for. Take it home, dump it in my filtration sytem. 15 minutes of effort a week. I get a tank of diesel every month or so, I've gone as long as 3 months on a tank of diesel.

Jim,
Ya it does look bad... it sounded way worse than it looks! My own fault for not running an EGT gauge... too much fuel and not a big enough turbo to provide air.