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The Tax thing may not apply. Look at all of the diesels now using cooking oil straight from the deep fryers, this is not subject to a road tax. YET!!

Roland

Interesting thread-
We had a guy locally that was collecting the used grease and oils from local restaurants and running such in his Volkswagen diesel. He'd built a fairly elaborate strainer and was able to all but eliminate pump purchases (which in his case was about 10 or 12 gallons a week). Car smelled a bit like Chinese take out, but I certainly admired his ingenuity.

Well, after a nice writeup in the local newspaper, the fine folks in Salem (Oregon) fined him for running "non-taxed fuel" and shut his in-home refinery down until such time as he could meet the States requirements for a petroleum distribution facility including fire control and suppression systems.

How ironic - in a "Green State" to penalize an individuals creativity for a lousy 50 gallons of recycled French fry grease every month. I guess they'd prefer to have the grease in the landfill.

Originally Posted by glennsexton

How ironic - in a "Green State" to penalize an individuals creativity for a lousy 50 gallons of recycled French fry grease every month. I guess they'd prefer to have the grease in the landfill.

Green and greed are only different by one letter......................sorta like Olympia and Salem are only different by one state.

Originally Posted by Hombre259

The Tax thing may not apply. Look at all of the diesels now using cooking oil straight from the deep fryers, this is not subject to a road tax. YET!!

Roland

Believe me, the only reason it isn't taxed YET is because the government hasn't figured out a way to tax it. If this becomes a widespread practice they will probably tax the cooking oil before it gets to the chip wagons.