RE: <All> Mo' Gas prices

["Avi Meron" <avi@cosmoslink.net>]

My diesel will run on olive oil...........BTDT,
Have not tried Mazola though,
Avi

-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net [mailto:owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net]
On Behalf Of Phil Payne
Sent:	Monday, April 05, 1999 9:16 AM
To:	KC3565L@sprintmail.com
Cc:	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
Subject:	Re: <All> Mo' Gas prices

> FWIW: I read an article in this morning's Rocky Mountain News
> describing how a process has been developed so that used cooking
> oil can be refined into a substitute for high grade diesel fuel.
> They were looking into using it to power buses at Yellowstone
>  but are concerned that it would attract bears because
> the exhaust smells like fried chicken.  And no, I am not making
> this up.  The story came off the Scripps Howard News Service.

No, _you_ aren't making it up - it was made up by someone else a long
time ago.  See alt.urban.myths for the story.

And have you ever compared the USA's use of gasoline with the
replacement rate of cooking oil in burger bars?

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