Why cant we make cars that burn vegetable oil?

[emprworm]

honestly, I don't know much about oil, but vegetable oil is flammable. The supply is endless. why cant it be used for fuel??

[Acriku]

http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_svo.html#guide

Seems some have made a guide to using it lol ;)

[emprworm]

I think that is so cool! so why aren't we developing those?

[VigilVirus]

Maybe because it is a lot less effective ::)

[sneezer3]

My dads always said. they should make cars go off of Hydrogen. although much more flameable at stations. much more useful. :)

[DukeLeto]

I think that is so cool! so why aren't we developing those?

Because the Republicans could no longer make money off of drilling the Alaskan wilderness for oil. ::)

[SurlyPIG]

Brazil runs all their cars off of sugar cane gas. You can make feul out of wheat too. Vegetable oil can be used in some engines these days too. Semi-trucks are starting to use canola oil as feul. As of now it's more costly, but it's less polluting and smells like french fries. ;D

The reason we don't use some of these things is because the oil industry bought the patents for devices that utilise them. Evil, isn't it? Too monopolized if you ask me.

But should we really be burning our wheat and canola when there are people across the world with nothing to eat? There's often discussion in Canada about making canola feul generically available to the public, and having it standard in trucks trucks, and though it has started, people are mostly against it because we export massive amounts of it to Africa as foreign aid.

But the street should run two ways. One time an African government destroyed the crop, leaving thousands to starve, because the wheat was geneticaly modified to be more nutritous.

Oil is oil. You can turn it into gas. Canola is canola, you can turn it into a fuel or you can eat it. So it's both a question of the patents and the ethics.

[emprworm]

interesting post, Ace. let me "chew" on that for a while. hehe.

no, really, was a very good post.

[sonic-worm]

Hey Ace..I think it's either in Alberta or Saskatchewan they are talking about building a Huge Canola processing plant to turn it into fuel to mix with gasoline, about 20% canola to 80% gas.Guess the government will start taxing the crap out of canola now ;D