• grue@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s the neat part: my diesel car (I’m not the guy you replied to; I just also own one) is old.

    In fact, old diesels are actually better because the common-rail fuel pump and “clean diesel” bullshit on the newer ones makes them incompatible with >10% biodiesel. My car can actually be carbon-neutral (simply by putting B100 in it) because it’s old!

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      1 year ago

      Oh, if it is old enough you should run it on old cooking oil. Knew someone that had an old diesel rabbit who was all into alternative fuels and ran it on leftover oil from a fryer, smelled like french fries.

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        1 year ago

        B100 smells like food, too (the stuff I typically buy is a byproduct of chicken rendering plants, so it smells like fried chicken).

        WVO vs. biodiesel is kind of a “six of one, half a dozen of the other” kind of thing: either you modify the car to run the unmodified biofuel, or you modify the biofuel to run in an unmodified car. I prefer the latter since it’s simpler and I can just buy it.