84 Home Power #72 • August / September 1999
M
aking your own fuel from
vegetable oil can be easy, costeffective, and environmentally
beneficial.
What makes this fuel even
more attractive is that you can make it
from the waste vegetable oil produced
in the...
More
84 Home Power #72 • August / September 1999
M
aking your own fuel from
vegetable oil can be easy, costeffective, and environmentally
beneficial.
What makes this fuel even
more attractive is that you can make it
from the waste vegetable oil produced
in the United States every year, which
amounts to more than three billion
gallons.
With a bit of know-how and
persistence, you can run any diesel
engine on vegetable oil.
Only diesel engines can run on vegetable oil-based
fuels.
This means that any engine that has spark plugs
and is made for leaded or unleaded gasoline cannot
use vegetable oil fuel.
If you want a practical
homemade fuel for a gasoline engine, you might
consider making ethanol, methane, or wood gas.
GrowYour Fuel
We produce a large quantity of used vegetable oil in the
United States, but there is an oilseed crop you can
grow no matter where you live.
The possibilities include
coconut, soybean, canola (rapeseed), sunflower,
safflower, corn, palm kernel, peanut, jatropha
Less
