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Old 06-11-2007, 04:22 PM
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From the best of my knowledge the Diesel was invented to run on oil.... peanut oil if I remember correctly. And a number of people seem to be running with oil just fine thank you.

Sooooooo using your logic... we should not experiment with alternative fuels because big ol' government EPA says so.

Using your logic we would never of had items like Penicillin, the Microwave Oven, Velcro and such.

Do you expect people to do what exactly? Wait until the government says it is OK?????

And you welcome high fuel prices...... well isnt that precious! All of this coming from someone that has removed their EGR and injects methanol???? POT KETTLE BLACK perhaps??? And I dont think the MVB engine was designed to be run on methanol injection. But that is just me.



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Originally Posted by ForcedInduction View Post
Vegetable oil from Costco is for human cooking and consumption, not burning in an internal combustion engine. The EPA has not cleared it to be used as fuel, it is not taxed to be used as fuel, and MB's engines were not made to use it as fuel.

So what if he was doing it to "lessen his dependency on foreign oil"? There are plenty of stations in S.C. that sell biodiesel, they even have a plant that manufactures it! I'll summarize it with this quote:
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