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Old 01-27-2007, 07:34 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tyreay View Post
The average Joe can convert a diesel engine to burn bio-fuel for under a couple hundred bucks. Yet it is too expensive for a car company? Please. Once again it is your stock options talking.
Couple hundred bucks?

Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) conversion kits run about $1,400. And that's just the beginning. You ALSO have to have a way of getting, storing, and filtering the used grease from places like McDonalds. In addition, you still have to run on regular Dino-Diesel in order to get the vehicle warmed up, and for the last 5 minutes of the drive.

And, when you consider the fact that you'd have to drive nearly 100,000 miles just to save enough money to pay off the cost of the conversion kit, the obvious becomes EXTREMELY obvious.

Bio-diesel and WVO conversions are completely and totally useless to the VAST majority of American consumers.

But there are better options...