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Old 11-18-2009, 02:11 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by tasdrouille View Post
It's because you start up on straight diesel while the vegoil is warming up to the proper viscosity. And also because you switch to straight diesel before shutting down to purge the lines from vegoil.

I edited the thread title to reflect reality (MPGe, MPG alone was misleading).
I see, that makes sense. Still seems extremely misleading considering you are still going through X number of gallons of flammable liquid.
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