Cooking oil at $5.50/gallon at Food Lion...



Just about what I expected. In connection with the biodiesel discussions we're having.

Figure in gasoline prices going up, continuously. Now about $2.75-2.85 in my neighborhood.

Figure that Europe is already at about $5/gallon, equivalent.

Figure if cooking oil has a calorimetry at all comparable to biodiesel, figure if distributed in tank trucks and station hoses instead of bottled a gallon at a time, into plastic bottles probably costing 20-40c each, and shelving costs, labeling, pricing, cash-registering, and maybe it would be more like almost a buck cheaper. Throw in some tax based subsidy, polished up manufacture & mass production techniques, and biodiesel could be -- in diesel VWs--quite reasonable to run.

My two cents. I may very well start paying more attention to all this re: my/our next car.
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