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Since vegetable oil is not taxed as fuel it's not wrong to use it. The politicians will be sure to tax it eventually and then it will be illegal to use it unless you pay taxes. Take advantage now.
There is no crime in using vegetable oil as fuel. It is environmentally neutral, as the CO2 from burning it is taken out of the air by the plants growing to produce more vegetable oil. There are some minor problems in using it in internal combustion engines [diesels], especially recently built ones.
Using waste cooking oil harms no ones food supply. Those who oppose using fuels made from crops, claiming to worry about competing with food crops are hypocrites. These people really want us to have no energy or to make it so expensive that our civilisation and population will shrink drastically. Their ideal is a totally vegetarian world, farmed by hand labour, using no animals. They propose using renewable and alternative energy sources which are insufficient at this time to replace fossil fuels and they campaign strenuously to end the use of fossils fuels and even fire. They propose extravagantly expensive solar power, but would oppose the huge collectors needed because some desert lizard might be disturbed. They push hydrogen power, which is impractical, but oppose the huge number of electric generating plants needed to make hydrogen. Electric power is made by burning fossil fuels, hydroelectric dams or nuclear plants, all of which they oppose. They oppose wind power because it is unsightly and kills birds. Tidal power plants would be unsightly and endanger some sea creatures.
They would have the great majority of the population die or never be born to protect the "Wilderness". They call themselves "environmentalists", but view themselves as the elite who will become the new population of the Earth.
The politicians think first of lining their pockets with money, they get money from Big Oil, Big Auto and Big Labour and green fuels would hurt all those groups. Government gets in the way with its regulations. Underground and earth-sheltered houses are deemed "basements" not eligible for loans although safer and very energy-efficient. Construction has to be "to code" and not better than code. Making your own ethanol for fuel is illegal. Many areas will not allow the digging needed for geothermal cooling and/or heating. Solar panels are not allowed on roofs because they don't "fit in the appearance of the community".
These people are also the ones who oppose the genetic engineering of plants, even if only used to make bio-fuels. They moan that growing any type of plant for fuel takes away from the food for the poor. These are the same poor that they want to abort their babies, the poor who are farming and herding and poaching the wilderness into extinction, the wilderness these people want to preserve untouched and unseen by Man. They are the ones who rail against foods tainted by anything, yet oppose irradiation that would eliminate all bacteria and germs from food . The same ones who demand perfect, unblemished produce, yet want to forbid insecticides and fertilisers. I can remember when white eggs got better prices than those "dirty" brown eggs, now those same people pay more for brown eggs thinking they are healthier and more natural. They are all just eggs!
The best alternative is to switch to a type of engine and power system that could use any liquid or gaseous fuel, would be less polluting than internal combustion engines and would be more efficient. They could be in production in 3 yrs and the autos would look no different than IC powered cars and would have as much interior space as any hybrid. E-mail
beesidemeusa@yahoo.co.uk and ask about steam-electric hybrids.
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