Thieves in Florida arrested for stealing used cooking oil

Isn't there a way where a gas powered engine can be relatively easily converted to burn cooking oil? People joke their car will smell like bacon.

Or is this refined oil being resold to restaurants?
 
I heard a story once about a very popular fried chicken restaurant in Memphis. Their claim to fame was that they never changed the oil in their enormous deep fryer. One night a hapless burglar chopped a hole in the roof to gain entry and fell into the vat of hot oil. He was quite well-done by the time he was discovered the next day. Needless to say, they changed the oil right away, but business was never the same again.
 
I've seen a few such vehicles around here, mostly delivery vehicles. Seems like a good way to recycle. Is it considered biodiesel or is that something else?
 
The thieves should have just eaten at those restaurants as a paying customer. No criminal record and they could've gotten some free gas
 
Bio diesel is a fuel that has been refined from used cooking oils. Obviously it only works in diesel engines. Recycling used motor oil, transmission fluid, engine coolant , and gear oil is not a new thing. The cost to do the recycling is MUCH less than the cost to produce virgin petroleum products. Fleet operators buy bulk quantities of oil, anti freeze, and gear oil. JimB.
 
I could link to some really gross videos from China about this. Such as old oil being skimmed from sewers for "re-use". Erugh.
 
PeppermintPatty said:
This is interesting. Is this a special type of car?
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It would have to have a diesel engine, which operates on compression of the fuel/air mixture. A vehicle with a gasoline engine would not run on bio diesel fuel. An alternative to gasoline as a motor fuel is propane gas ( also known as LPG in other parts of the world outside of North America ). Propane powered vehicles are found here in Canada in large vehicle fleets, like Canada Post, the RCMP, and the Canadian Forces light duty vehicles. Most of the limos at the International airports in Canada run on propane because it costs about 50 percent LESS than gasoline does , the same thing for taxis here.

Propane is a clean burning fuel and it is the same gas used in your home back yard bar b que. Canada has one of the largest supplies of propane underground in the world in western Canada. We export propane through pipelines to the USA. JimB.
 
jimintoronto said:
It would have to have a diesel engine, which operates on compression of the fuel/air mixture. A vehicle with a gasoline engine would not run on bio diesel fuel. An alternative to gasoline as a motor fuel is propane gas ( also known as LPG in other parts of the world outside of North America ). Propane powered vehicles are found here in Canada in large vehicle fleets, like Canada Post, the RCMP, and the Canadian Forces light duty vehicles. Most of the limos at the International airports in Canada run on propane because it costs about 50 percent LESS than gasoline does , the same thing for taxis here.

Propane is a clean burning fuel and it is the same gas used in your home back yard bar b que. Canada has one of the largest supplies of propane underground in the world in western Canada. We export propane through pipelines to the USA. JimB.
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You are like an encyclopedia full of knowledge. I’m not to fond of the smell of diesel. I wonder what the food oil engine smells like.
 

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