Main Menu Contributions   RUN YOUR CAR ON VEGGIE OIL Posted by: grass on Oct 09, 2003 - 09:56 AM   WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM/WP-DYN/ ARTICLES/A28417-2003SEP4.HTML Washington Post article / September 7, 2003 Charles Anderson's one-ton diesel engine truck is environmentally friendly and known to cause cravings for egg rolls. Anderson, a Drury, Mo., farmer and entrepreneur, runs his engine on vegetable oil, topping off the tank at a Chinese restaurant where the owner gladly donates the kitchen's used gallons. "The truck smells like whatever was cooked in the oil," Anderson says. "Chinese food, fried fish, tacos . . ." A truck run purely on vegetable oil? The idea is not new: The engine that Rudolf Diesel first showed at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris was fueled by peanut oil. But the concept took a recess until, under the company name Greasel, Anderson started marketing kits that can convert any diesel engine -- whether in a Mercedes or a Greyhound bus -- to run on the stuff.   Login RUN YOUR CAR ON VEGGIE OIL | Login/Create an account | Comments Threshold -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 No comments Nested Flat Thread Oldest first Newest first Highest scores first    Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.