A new trend is rising amongst energy conscience people. These people have devised a way to help fuel their existing automobiles with used cooking oils. There are several companies, such as GreaseCar, that sell conversion kits allowing you to retrofit your existing vehicle with a vegetable oil fuel supplement system. These generally will only work on older diesel engines. After installation, the engine then becomes a diesel-oil hybrid. The diesel is used to start the engine and bring it up to temperature. Once the engine is at an appropriate temperature, the vegetable oil can be used power the engine. This type of engine will burn cleaner than a straight gasoline engine, and gives us a way to reuse cooking oil that would otherwise have to be disposed of.

It honestly does not sound that difficult to do if you use one of these conversion kits. But it does involve quite a bit of work in obtaining the used cooking oil and filtering it so that it is usable. Then there is the fact that you need a diesel engine to begin with. Finally, this type of engine is actually meeting some legal opposition due to the fact that people that the people are not paying fuel taxes that are used to maintain the system of road that they drive on.

So if you want to try to be greener, have a diesel engine, and some time to spare, check out these conversion kits.

If any of my readers have done this to their vehicle, please leave a comment to let us know how hard it was to install, maintain, etc.