7,500 Miles On $5 In Gas, Veggie Oil (teenager)

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http://www.netscape.com/viewstory/2006/08/18/7500-miles-on-5-worth-of-fuel/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fstories%2F2006%2F08%2F18%2Fearlyshow%2Fmain1910319.shtml&frame=true



7,500 Miles On $5 In Gas, Veggie Oil
High Schooler Does It In Pickup Running Mainly On Cooking Oil

It's one thing to be fed up with high gas prices, but Atlanta high school senior Bill Bridgers decided to do something about it.

He converted his diesel pickup truck to run almost exclusively on used vegetable oil, and for the past three weeks he has been driving across the country with his father and a friend, filling people in on alternative fuel possibilities.

Bridgers calls the project VegTheUSA.

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The technology to retrofit the truck is "all over the Internet," Bridgers says.

He has a huge filter "to get the mandarin chicken" and other food particles and impurities out of the oil, which is then heated to 180 degrees, and pumped into the truck's engine.

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Gasoline is only used when the truck is first turned on, then just before it's turned off.
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yea!! for teenagers

wonder why Pimp My Ride, OverHauling and the other TV car shows (motorcycles?) haven't given at least one show over to this? or have they?