Brew your own diesel fuel for .41 cents a gallon

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...with used cooking oil that he gets for free from a nearby restaurant, he figures he's now getting 44 miles per gallon out of his diesel powered VW Golf and only paying 41 cents a gallon.

If I had the resources I would do this happily.

Be careful. Here in Australia, a guy was successfully prosecuted by the government for making biodiesel and using it to power his truck. The reason? Because the government was not getting the fuel excise tax that they felt they should be entitled to.

This is why we will never see clean cheap renewable energy as long as there are alternatives that they can control and make us pay through the nose for.