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O/T Vegatable oil

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Big G

04-15-2008 19:29:29




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Any of you have your diesels set up and running on cooking oil? What ever it may be truck or tractor. I find this to be interesting.




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JW in NH

04-16-2008 09:21:39




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 Re: O/T Vegatable oil in reply to Big G, 04-15-2008 19:29:29  
Big G:

A friend and I are going to try haying with new vegetable oil in our tractors this summer: Using a value to switch between the diesel and veg oil. Start the tractor on diesel and switch over once the engine is warm. Switch back to "clean out" the veg oil before parking for the night. We are going to start out with new fuel filters and change them out again in the fall be for the temp drops enough to gel the veg oil. If the Myth Busters can run a car on used veg oil with no modifications then why can't we run our tractors on it???

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dave2

04-16-2008 04:23:06




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 Re: O/T Vegatable oil in reply to Big G, 04-15-2008 19:29:29  
It's not quite as simple as just pouring some in your tank and going. I did see something somewhere about being able to use 10% (?) cooking oil in your normal vehical tank, but don't know how accurate it was. However, if/when it is made possible, you can BYSA that cooking oil will be priced right up there w/ diesel fuel anyway.

Dave



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FarmallJoe

04-15-2008 19:31:57




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 Re: O/T Vegatable oil in reply to Big G, 04-15-2008 19:29:29  
It sound like a good idea around me in New England diesel is around 4.50 a gallon!! its killing farmers, truckers, working people

Its about time we start drilling in the good ol US of A. Forget corn in my gas!!



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tlak

04-16-2008 04:14:21




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 Re: O/T Vegatable oil in reply to FarmallJoe, 04-15-2008 19:31:57  
They say oil is stock piled every where. In this state, land was being leased to store it, no where for it ot go. Processing for fuel is the bottle neck.
I haven't check with the local resturants but I figure cooking oil will be hard to come by.



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Bob Huntress

04-15-2008 20:23:46




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 Re: O/T Vegatable oil in reply to FarmallJoe, 04-15-2008 19:31:57  
Using corn for fuel has the benefit of raising the price of corn going to those who are living the highlife on their nations oil. Let the Arabs pay a weeks wages for a loaf of bread, and see if they become more negotiable with the crude.



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FarmallJoe

04-16-2008 15:43:54




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 Re: O/T Vegatable oil in reply to Bob Huntress, 04-15-2008 20:23:46  
you dont understand the raise of corn prices has effected everything. Food is more expensive and if your a livestock farmer you know it kills you to fill up the silo.



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RAB

04-15-2008 22:26:14




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 Re: O/T Vegatable oil in reply to Bob Huntress, 04-15-2008 20:23:46  
Why should they. The price of their crude would rise accordingly. You argument is flawed



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Bob

04-15-2008 21:20:35




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 US crude... in reply to Bob Huntress, 04-15-2008 20:23:46  
Have you guys seen this:

"OIL... lots and lots f OIL! The USGS said in in its press release that its new Bakken estimate is larger than all of its other oil assessments of the lower 48 states and is the largest "continuous" oil accumulation it has ever assessed. It said a "continuous" oil accumulation means that the oil resource is dispersed throughout a geologic formation rather than existing as discrete, localized occurrences. The next largest continuous oil accumulation in the U.S. is in the Austin Chalk of Texas and Louisiana, with an estimate of 1 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil. Experts figure it will yield 270 million to 500 billion barrels of oil over its lifetime, which could make the roughly 60 billion barrels of oil of the famed North Slope of Alaska look like a child's mud puddle."

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in-too-deep

04-16-2008 07:35:54




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 Re: US crude... in reply to Bob, 04-15-2008 21:20:35  
If anyone knows anything about anything, we should use up all the oil in the rest of the world before touching our own domestic supply.



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Davis SC

04-15-2008 20:57:22




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 Re: O/T Vegatable oil in reply to Bob Huntress, 04-15-2008 20:23:46  
Yes, Jimmy C. said it was not fair to use food for politics. I disagree... A barrel of oil for a bushel of grain sounds like a fair exchange to me.



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paul

04-15-2008 21:17:33




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 Re: O/T Vegatable oil in reply to Davis SC, 04-15-2008 20:57:22  
Jimmy Carter said that?????

Before or after his grain embargo????? ?


--->Paul



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IaGary

04-16-2008 05:42:26




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 Re: O/T Vegatable oil in reply to paul, 04-15-2008 21:17:33  
You are right paul Jimmy did embargo grain. And it did work. It hurt us farmers but it did help the U.S.

Don't know if I would want to see it again as a farmer.

Gary



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