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CarGuy
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I have a lot of people interested in trying biodiesel, and a few of them want me to start a small scale plant, but there is not enough WVO around here for that. I phoned the local renderer, and he said 50,000 litre minimum with 50 cents per litre price! That is more than the cost of my time and chemical supplies! It would be cheaper to buy seed and make my own oil! You would be surprised at how many people want a piece of the bio-pie! He did offer to sell me bio at 90 cents litre, go figure!

Daniel
 
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Tony from West Oz (The Wizard of Oz)
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I doubt that you could buy the seed and have it pressed for less than 80 cents per litre.
Even growing it yourself, then having your seed pressed and selling the seed meal as stockfeed would not be much cheaper.


"Fatmobile 3" '84 MB300D Silver/Grey with dark blue interior. 290kkm My car - 2 tank UCO conversion working well. 22 000 km so far on UCO
"Josephine" '82 MB300D White with Palamino MBtex interior. 385kkm Wife's car. 20 000km on UCO blends.
"Elizabeth" '81 MB 280E Good body now re-engined as a 300D with the engine from the '79 300D.70 litre UCO tank, 2 pollacks switch FP, filters and IP between Start and UCO tanks.

'79 300D poor body (donor & parts)

"Fatmobile 2" '80 MB300D White with dark Blue interior 230kkm (My first MB) - 5000 km on biodiesel / UCO blend - Found new owner (Sold in 2004).
"Fatmobile" a '90 Mazda 2 litre diesel on UCO with biodiesel start/purge. - SOLD in Dec 2003 after 40 000km on UCO.
 
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