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Someone my wife knows had their House up for sale and was in already in Contract with someone. Person next door calls for an oil delivery and driver goes to the wrong house by mistake. Wifes' Friend was not home and driver pumps oil into the fill pipe, but there was no tank inside. They had removed the tank (maybe converted to Gas, I don't know) but did not remove the pipe. They now had all this Oil in their Finished Basement!

I don't know what happened, but I'm sure it was not fun.

Bill

Reminds me of the story which emerged in Britain a few weeks ago about some enterprising people in Wales running their diesel cars on various combinations of vegetable oils, including the left-over frying oil from fish-&-chip shops!

Paul:
I wonder, did the exhaust smell like an Arthur Treachers??? (A Fish & Chips "fast food" chain that used to be here in NJ, USA)

Seriously, would the exhaust have a fishy tinge??

John

From what I've heard, it does.

A product called "biodiesel" can be made from just about any kind of vegetable oil, and burned in a standard diesel engine. A search on "biodiesel" on google turns up all kind sof links. One demonstration project that got a fair bit of coverage (at least in the alternative press) has it's own website at:
http://www.veggievan.org

Say, what ever happened to Gasohol?