I know there's 1 in Austrailia.

a few in Europe; 1 in Germany who wants to find out how to get oil...

Anyone have any idea how many people are running their Diesel's on WVO/UCO in the US?

I figure not too many. On this forum, I estimate like 30. On Infopop, like another 30????

Anyone have a guess; or an estimate???

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85 300D-
79 300SD
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83 300CD - CA
87 190E 5 spd
87 Porsche 924S

"..I'll take a simple "C" to "G" and feel brand new about it..."

I would suspect thousands, but not millions.

i'd be willing to guess 10 grand in the world by now.

david

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84 300td 223k modified greasel conversion (sold)
92 300d 2.5 185k with frybrid kit

OK but how do you figure? Based on anything, or is that a guess?

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'81 280SEL

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81 300SD -
93 300E w/ 3.2
85 300D-
79 300SD
82 300CD
83 300CD - CA
87 190E 5 spd
87 Porsche 924S

"..I'll take a simple "C" to "G" and feel brand new about it..."

I would agree that there is thousands of them out there. I know that here in Portland there is at least 10 that I have spoken to and I'm sure that is but a fraction of them. Judgeing by the growth of websites speacilaizing in the sale of equipment like greascar and neo-teric I would also agree that there has to be close to 5K here just in the US. The last gas gouge had a lot to do with it and I already know of people willing to pay for WVO at restraunts because they are unable to get any.

But I susupect many people to give up on all the extra work and cost of conversions as the gas price continues to fall (Though I doubt it will stay down long

Now this is only to your question as WVO. I know there are Hundreds and hundreds that run on home-brew bio-diesel in Portland and it would have to be 1000+ that run on bio-diesl from large manafacuters like sequential.

Hey,

You live in Portland? Whereabouts?

I am up there 5 days a week at school/working...drive the "tuned" 300SD up barbur

BTW I grease when I feel like it...but with morons out there letting the store owners know that their "waste" is worth something to somebody...they are going to start charging for it and ruin it for all of us.

It should be a case of...I have this grease, I will convert my car...not the other way around...

And when someone goes "um thats a dollar a gallon" the answer should be copious amounts of laughing and heavy application of the right foot on the go pedal.

But there are those out there that HAVE TO HAVE THE OIL and I guess they are willing to shell out money for something they could get for free (or shouldn't bother with since it has cost associated with it).

Just my thoughts...

Which brings up a question that I've been too shy to ask. But here goes.

Having never had a career in fast food or any other type of food, how much wvo does a typical restaraunt generate? I've always speculated that my town of 15,000 could only support a handful of wvo hippies. And I use the hippie comment affectionately. Am I right or way off?

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Not true, I live in a suburb. South San Francisco meaning a lot less restaraunts and that means alot less oil compared the bigger city of San francisc. And the amount of oil that comes out of the local red robin is way to much. im looking at 80 gallons a week!! and thats just one restaraunt. Im not able to store that much oil so i just take 5-10 gallons once a week form them and then go get them from the other 3 restaraunts.

So yess a town of 15,000 people could be supplied with sufficent amout of oil.

Greasybenz,

That's amazing! I would have never guessed that. I had this mental picture of greasers competing for grease kind of like surfers jockey for a tasty wave.

I read a ediary on one of the grease sites about a dude that greased his way down to Argentina in a VW. He said that south of the border, most people used their grease to death before they dumped it. A pretty good read.

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YUCK, i would never ever use oil thats been over used. That would mean the oil is rancid and the food is really bad for you. The oil i get is clean and only used for a week tops! so i know ill go back and eat there too because if their oil is clean then that means there food is clean to eat.

If you take a look at greasecar.com's record for the amount of people who bought the system its hit a million kits sold so far. So thats a million people who bought a greascar kit and its still counting! So yes many many people are running their car on wvo. MANY! And a couple in europe??? where did you get that figure? In europe was where using wvo as fuel was born! Many people in europe have been running their cars with elsbett systems but now europe law says you can only use new veggie oil in diesel cars.

Please post a link to back this outrageous statement, I find it a bit hard to swallow. I would guess that greasecars total kits sold is closer to a thousand and that the total of greasers in the US is between 5 and 10 thousand.

GB; I was kidding with a couple....I know that is where they have been at it for a longer time than here in the US.....

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'81 280SEL

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81 300SD -
93 300E w/ 3.2
85 300D-
79 300SD
82 300CD
83 300CD - CA
87 190E 5 spd
87 Porsche 924S

"..I'll take a simple "C" to "G" and feel brand new about it..."

There's gonna be one (actually two) more soon. Frybrid on order, filter 'plant' in progress ('stages' one and two are working, three and four being built), oil abundance (anybody need some? It's from a seafood place, stays liquid to 30F!), two cars to convert...

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'99 S420, 155k
'91 VW Vanagon GL, 150k
'85 VW Vanagon GL, 120k
'82 VW Westy, aircooled, 165k

At 795 per kit he would have taken in over $795,000,000 gross which even at 5% profit would be well in excess of 39.25 million dollars. Though Justin is really into grease I am certain he would have moved on to Cuban cigars and Vacations in the Bahamas by now if he had that kinda cash.

There are 150+ folks on the frappr site, burningthemidnightgrease. But I know a lot of folks don't know about it, wont get on it, or don't care enough to add themselves.

I have heard about 'greasers' since I lived in Colorado almost 10 years ago now. I would agree with thousands but since only 1% of cars sold in America are diesels I bet a million is way to much to ask for.

My $0.02
Ce

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