Interesting, I have been talking to people about ths recently. No one seems to have any definate answers for me. I've complied some notes and links in the last two day. I hope this helps and when I find more I will post them.
WVO is hardly free. If you attempt to do it correctly you will have
the following costs:
1) Cost of the conversion kit.
2) Cost of materials to filter the oil
3) Cost of changing engine oil more often
4) Cost of getting the oil (pumps, fee if resturants charge you to
take their oil, etc.)
5) Time of getting the oil
6) Time of filtering the oil
Just saying "WVO is the closest to a free ride - and it is pretty
close." is very misleading to anyone that is thinking about doing such
a thing.
1) 1000-1500 dollars, but you gain that money back. Got to spend money
to make money. Diesels 5 dollars a gallon, nuff said.
2) Couple different routes on that one. Cheapest being gravity
filtering as we have proved that to be the one of the best. You can go
from bag filters that cost around 10 bucks or all the way to a
centrifuge that costs 400-500 including pumps. Its your call.
3) Non factor beings you change your oil on a regular car. Some people
change there oil every 3k regardless of WVO or not. Its called taking
better care of your car.
4) Cost of getting oil is pretty cheap. My dads arm gets kind of tired
when we use buckets to dump it in the cubies from the barrels but
other than that its pretty cheap. Costs money to go to the gas station
and time to pump gas.
5) Not a factor, takes time to go to the gas station.
6) Unless you enjoy watching paint dry usually your off doing other
things. Just because it could take hours to filter oil or even days
doesn't mean your sitting there watching it happen. Kind of a stretch
don't you think???
Looks like we got a whole new crowd to argue with Phil beings
Darkscout got a time out. New opinions and new BS, ought to be
interesting.
quote:
ok, I agree technically your statement might be correct depending on
your source for WVO. However, consider the context of your statement.
Anyone who sees you or anyone else talk about "almost free fuel" with
NO discussion of the other investment involved reasonably can be
expected to infer that there are little to no additional costs to be
incurred, which is misleading. Why else would one make reference to
the "close to nothing" cost?
Cheapest setup:
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showpost.php?p=1496136&postcount=189
Most informative site:
http://www.biodieselcommunity.org/
Last thoughts:
http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=213746
