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Originally Posted by dennyt
Agreed. It's admirable that you're using WVO, but you're still burning the same amount of energy, and producing the same amount of emissions. Claiming a MPG assuming WVO is exempt tells us nothing of the efficiency of your car, your route, or your driving techniques.
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Originally Posted by ShadeTreeMech
Let's not forget that, despite WVO being a cleaner fuel (not CLEAN, just better than diesel), it still puts out carbon emmisions.
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Actually WVO produces less emissions, and because it comes from a plant, so in the whole cycle of things the WVO process as a whole produces less emissions than running on petro diesel. Plus it's technically recycling something that was used for something else.
See
http://www.buffalobiodiesel.org/svo_emissions.pdf page 8