Comments on: Brian McLaughlin's "grease car" Jetta

By: KEN NEWLIN

KEN NEWLIN — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:43:24 +0000

DEAR BRIAN: THIS IS ‘09 BUT I HOPE YOU’RE STILL AVAILABLE. CAN A REGULAR ENGINE RUN ON VEGETABLE OIL? AND TOO, I’VE SEEN GUYS WHO PROCESS THEIR OIL MORE THAN YOU. YOUR’S SEEMS TO BE JUST HEATED UP TO GET THE IMPURITIES OUT. THEN YOU DEPEND ON YOUR FILTERS. TRUE? THANKS KEN—–INDIANA

By: Chuck Gaff

Chuck Gaff — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:00:38 +0000

This is too neat! I’ve been casually investigating alternative means of fuel, including water. But, frying grease as a fuel seems to be less complex and manageable. Thanks for the video.

By: Brandon Wilhite

Brandon Wilhite — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:18:37 +0000

Very Cool! Makes me want to get a TDI. Although I’m not sure the landlord would appreciate me cooking up vegetable oil in out apartment. Anyone watch Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe on the Discovery Channel? He did a piece on “bio-diesel man” – this guy in Bellingham, WA that collected used cooking oil from local restaurants. His process was quite a bit more involved then Brian’s. I wonder why? Also the bio-diesel man on didn’t do any conversions on his diesel cars – just poured the stuff in and drove. I guess More Processing = Less Car Converting. Who knows… Anyway, great video. Thanks!