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To: maceng2 who wrote (50757)	10/10/2002 10:57:28 AM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

People have known about running diesels on cooking oil for a while. The legality and tax situation is pretty much the same in the US. You can run heating fuel oil in your diesel too, people probably do that more than cooking oil. I don't know, but I'd guess offhand that the energy balance involved in producing vegetable oil for fuel on an industrial scale would be similar to that for ethanol, where more energy goes into production than is contained in the end product. If you want to try to do a comparison of current production capacity for vegetable oils versus current petroleum usage, you could start at fas.usda.gov . Somehow, I got a feeling vegetable oil production wouldn't scale up very well on either cost or capacity, but who knows?