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Running a car on SVO, or straight vegetable oil is another option - diesels can be converted to this type of system. The only drawbacks:
1. You need two tanks - one for conventional diesel and one for veggie oil. You need to start the car on conventional diesel, and let it run on diesel to get the last of the veggie oil out of the fuel lines, since veggie oil needs to be heated to a certain temp in order to be usable in an internal combustion engine. (The engine running on diesel can sufficiently heat up the the veggie oil to proper temps)
2. You need to have a way to monitor the temp of the veggie oil and have a way to switch from diesel to veggie oil.
Read about this stuff in Grassroots Motorsports. I believe Randy Probst drives a converted VW Jetta diesel on SVO.
-Z
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