On Jan 29, 8:36*pm, wrote:
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:39:23 -0500, Wayne.B

wrote:
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:25:34 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

But I'd think it would be neat to make your own gasoline for your
boat, and even road use UP TO a certain limit, though.

It's an interesting idea but I think you'll find that the complexities
and costs will make it impractical. * The big refineries spend a lot
of money on safety and process control but they get to spread the
investment over huge quantities. *It would make a great magazine
article for one of the DIY publications however.

I think the home made fuel will be the biodiesel. My wife's
electrician gets all of the cooking oil from the club (along with the
other clubs he works at) and makes his own fuel.

I have a customer who does that and he takes it very seriously and has
got it down to a science to the opoint of making specific
modifications to his 6.5 GM diesel Pickup. It does take some time to
'refine' the used cooking oil, but he figures he's running at about $.
75 a gallon.