Unplugged Living

Used Cooking Oil To Power Your Car

by Noel on April 11th, 2007

Sounds icky? Sounds yucky? Sounds just too weird?

It may be so but there are some environment advocates who are already looking at used cooking oil from restaurants as a fuel source for vehicles. After all, it is no secret that the world’s fossil fuel sources are slowly depleting.

The group of advocates seems to have already done experiments and see if such worked and I guess it did. In fact, aside from used cooking oil, these environmentalists are also now trying out vegetable oil to serve as fuel. And now only are these unconventional fuel being tested on vehicles but they are also being tested on houses’ heating systems.

One very concrete example that these “fuels” do work is the fact that Antony Berretti was able to drive through Europe in his Fiat van. And all he was using for fuel was the used vegetable oil that he was able to get from restaurants he passed on his journey.

[Via Yahoo! News]

[Image from About: Greek Food]

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