Re: Yikes! Diesel $4.50/gallon

Tom Plunket turned on the Etch-A-Sketch and wrote:

> T.G. Lambach wrote:
> 
>> Today I emerged from our hovel to find diesel at $4.50/gallon and
>> Premium gas at $4.10/gallon. And I bought a diesel for economy???
>> 
>> But that was 1980, before the world went insane.
> 
> At this point it may be worth swinging down to Costco to see how much
> the soybean oil is.  When I was buying it new it was running around $15
> for a 35lb jug, and Google tells me that soybean oil runs around 7.5#
> per gallon which led me to compute them as 4.5-4.7 gallons.  When I
> started down this path I'd pour one or two jugs in before heading down
> to the fuel station, and ran ~50% mix of veggie oil.  (and wow, did the
> fuel filters turn black quick those first few weeks!)
> 
> However, since so much petroleum goes into the production of soybeans,
> the cost is likely fairly rigidly linked to the price of fuel, so it may
> be up to $18 now; haven't checked since I started dragging it away from
> some of the restaurants I frequent.  I could say pretty certainly though
> that doing that is not enormously cost effective given the time I spend
> dealing with fueling my car, but my reasons for doing it are other than
> money.  An hour or so a week dealing with it, plus filters and general
> mess to deal with, plus a garage that smells like a fryer to displace
> maybe $50 or $60 (also weekly, between the two cars&drivers) of
> hassle-free pumping at the station.  On the flip side, the cars run
> smooth as silk, entirely unaffected by the removal of sulfur from
> petrodiesel.

Tom - what system do you have and what car?

I've been investegating this - more for the fact that I *can* do it than
the
money.


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