no, you don't understand that I'm not knocking any fuel. I'm making the point that if you are driving a car on a public street you are relying on the Oil/Automobile/Trucking industry. And a huge portion of that interest group is Oil. I don't care if your car runs on your own urine or dirty bathwater. Man, even PAVING a road is reliant on the oil industry.
This idea that you can convert your car to run on used peanut oil from your local chinese Takee Outee and be removed from association with a pro-oil economy is rediculous. Might as well drag yourself into the woods and live in a hollowed out log, like the Unibomber. Keep the pipes to yourself.
Biodiesel sounds fine to me, hell I'm fascinated by any alternative fuel. But using an individual machine as transportation (and I'm as guilty here as you) no matter what's in it's tank, contributes to the collective cost of gas just as much as pumping it at the station.
This idea that you can convert your car to run on used peanut oil from your local chinese Takee Outee and be removed from association with a pro-oil economy is rediculous. Might as well drag yourself into the woods and live in a hollowed out log, like the Unibomber. Keep the pipes to yourself.
Biodiesel sounds fine to me, hell I'm fascinated by any alternative fuel. But using an individual machine as transportation (and I'm as guilty here as you) no matter what's in it's tank, contributes to the collective cost of gas just as much as pumping it at the station.