O/T Vegatable oil

[Big G]

Any of you have your diesels set up and running on cooking oil? What ever it may be truck or tractor. I find this to be interesting.

 

[FarmallJoe]

It sound like a good idea around me in New England diesel is around 4.50 a gallon!! its killing farmers, truckers, working people

Its about time we start drilling in the good ol US of A. Forget corn in my gas!!

 

[Bob Huntress]

Using corn for fuel has the benefit of raising the price of corn going to those who are living the highlife on their nations oil. Let the Arabs pay a weeks wages for a loaf of bread, and see if they become more negotiable with the crude.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Yes, Jimmy C. said it was not fair to use food for politics. I disagree... A barrel of oil for a bushel of grain sounds like a fair exchange to me.

 

[paul]

Jimmy Carter said that??????

Before or after his grain embargo???????


--->Paul

 

[Bob]

Have you guys seen this:

"OIL... lots and lots f OIL!

The USGS said in in its press release that its new Bakken estimate is larger than all of its other oil assessments of the lower 48 states and is the largest "continuous" oil accumulation it has ever assessed. It said a "continuous" oil accumulation means that the oil resource is dispersed throughout a geologic formation rather than existing as discrete, localized occurrences. The next largest continuous oil accumulation in the U.S. is in the Austin Chalk of Texas and Louisiana, with an estimate of 1 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil.

Experts figure it will yield 270 million to 500 billion barrels of oil over its lifetime, which could make the roughly 60 billion barrels of oil of the famed North Slope of Alaska look like a child's mud puddle."
Persia on the Plains

 

[RAB]

Why should they. The price of their crude would rise accordingly. You argument is flawed

 

[tlak]

They say oil is stock piled every where. In this state, land was being leased to store it, no where for it ot go. Processing for fuel is the bottle neck.
I haven't check with the local resturants but I figure cooking oil will be hard to come by.

 

[Anonymous-0]

It's not quite as simple as just pouring some in your tank and going. I did see something somewhere about being able to use 10% (?) cooking oil in your normal vehical tank, but don't know how accurate it was. However, if/when it is made possible, you can BYSA that cooking oil will be priced right up there w/ diesel fuel anyway.

Dave

 

[IaGary]

You are right paul Jimmy did embargo grain. And it did work. It hurt us farmers but it did help the U.S.

Don't know if I would want to see it again as a farmer.

Gary

 

[Anonymous-0]

If anyone knows anything about anything, we should use up all the oil in the rest of the world before touching our own domestic supply.

 

[JW in NH]

Big G:

A friend and I are going to try haying with new vegetable oil in our tractors this summer: Using a value to switch between the diesel and veg oil. Start the tractor on diesel and switch over once the engine is warm. Switch back to "clean out" the veg oil before parking for the night. We are going to start out with new fuel filters and change them out again in the fall be for the temp drops enough to gel the veg oil. If the Myth Busters can run a car on used veg oil with no modifications then why can't we run our tractors on it???

 

[FarmallJoe]

you dont understand the raise of corn prices has effected everything. Food is more expensive and if your a livestock farmer you know it kills you to fill up the silo.