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Books and other media on vegcars

I just put up a page with links to several books, videos, ebooks and other media on vegcars, biofuels etc. You can find the page here. For convenience, I'll post it here as well. Amazon.com Widgets

40,000 Miles on Veg Oil

Early this month I passed the 4-year anniversary of buying my veg oil fueled Mercedes 300D. As many 300D vegcar owners have experienced, the car required a considerable amount of repair work. These repairs included front-end work, replacing the air conditioning system, fixing the odometer and a window mechanism and ...

Looking for SoCal Los Angeles area business interested in supplying SVO/WVO to local users

This post is from a Vegcar.net reader... I am looking for a company that is interested in supplying WVO/SVO quality refined used vegetable oil to local market for use a alternative diesel fuel (WVO/SVO conversion users). We have access to quality products and can delver to your business if you are ...

GM is Our Company

After today's bankrupcy filing, the United States of America will own more than 60% of GM. Following is a letter from Michael Moore to President Obama (and the Country) on what we should do with our new company. Goodbye, GM - by Michael Moore June 1, 2009 I write this on the morning ...

Price sensitivity of alternative fuels

I want to share a reader comment on the WVO Retailers Suspending Service post. We have a company in Southern California that collects, filters and sells WVO and were also surprised at the price sensitivity our customers have for this product. For all of the environmental purist rhetoric it apparently still ...

Automakers still don’t get it.

It is pretty sad that the auto industry is designing new SUVs, some of them V8's! This is from today's story in the New York Times on the New York Auto Show. The roughly $85,000 BMW X6 M is a four-passenger 4,800-pound crossover with a thirsty 555-horsepower V-8 engine — hardly ...

WVO Retailers Suspending Service

For the past 3 years, I have been buying filtered WVO from Sphere Energy, a San Luis Obispo company. I contacted them last week and they said that business is very slow. They said that oil is not worth enough to cover filtering costs, so they are selling it all ...

Mercedes 300D Odometer – FIXED!

I bought my 1984 300D almost 4 years ago. I bought the car with 198,000 miles on the odometer. A few months later, the odometer stopped working at around 204,000 miles. It worked intermittently before stopping completely. Last week I had the odometer repaired. The mechanic gave me a tip that ...

Josh Tickell’s “Fuel” Playing in LA

Josh Tickell, the author of the book, "From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank", has just released the documentary film "Fuel". For many of us, Josh's book was one of the first sources of information available on how to run a car on waste vegetable oil. I haven't seen it ...

How to diagnose glow plug problems

This site has a very good and detailed, step-by-step process for diagnosing glow plug problems.