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Default Frybird Vegetable Oil Diesel System

"Capt John" wrote in news:1157023064.038946.167050
@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

From what I've been told the fuel can actually go bad over time. Now

it's nothing to worry about in a car, since it doesn't sit very long
before it's used. And it's probably not a problem in a commercial boat
that's constantly being used. But I'd be worried about a few hundred
gallons sitting for extended times, like over the winter, in a normal
boat.



As the system isn't totally dependent on vegoil for fuel, it would be
quite easy to, at the end of the season, simply run out of vegoil, switch
to diesel and come back to the dock. No vegoil needed to be stored,
eliminating the problem. A month before the next season started, you'd
start collecting, settling and filtering this year's fuel stock so you
could trawl around all summer for free.....

Thinking next year they'll be getting $5-8 at the dock pumps, makes it
all worth doing, doesn't it?

I want one. Even if I never save a dime, I'll still have the feeling
I've beat "the system" of oil ripoff and tax ripoffs. I'd much rather
pay these guys at Frybrid (corrected spelling, sorry) than those other
*******s. I got the same feeling when they disconnected the phone lines
from my house for the last time....(c; I can imagine how good it feels
to go off the power grid on some homebrew wind turbine scheme like
www.otherpower.com did, too.

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