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Our goal is to put this
great natural resource to good use, recycled into a usable fuel that can
help us gain independence from foreign and domestic fossil fuels, reduce
pollution in our environment, minimize our effect on global warming and
help pass a Clean, Healthy Earth on to the next generation.
One of the biggest
roadblocks to producing an oil suitable for use in VegOil cars is the
avoidance of hydrogenated oils. In response to public demand the
food industry has been changing, kitchens and processors
who have always used lard and hydrogenated oils have started switching
to pure vegetable oil as a way to provide a healthier product for their
customer.
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We thank the companies with
the courage and commitment to make the switch and hope that more will
follow in their foot steps . This is great for us as a food consuming
public and it provides a readily available fuel source for our VegOil
cars.
We want to stay away from
hydrogenated oils as they tend to solidify at higher temperatures and
prematurely clog filters. Their is also talk of them eating away at some internal engine
parts, but the jury is still out on that subject.
Our Veg-energy program collects only
non-hydrogenated cooking oils, no lard, no hydrogenated oils. We use
separate trucks for those products and we always suggest that our
customers switch to a healthier non-hydrogenated cooking oil and become an earth
friendly partner.
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Over the last
eight or ten
years ( mid 1990's) we have seen the introduction of Bio-diesel into the (almost)
mainstream of US fuel usage. Most of the oil that can't be used in
straight VegOil vehicles we recycle into Biodiesel. This is
far better than the alternative of feeding it to the hogs, spraying it
on dirt roads or dumping it in the landfill. The only drawback with
Biodiesel is that we start with the same raw material, VegOil, then we
add chemicals and additional processing costs so the end product
usually costs the same or more than petro-diesel, making it difficult
for the average consumer to choose the earth friendly product. Filtered
VegOil is still the most earth friendly and cost effective fuel source.
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