to get the filtration system up and running, since you have to filter out food particles out of used oil. To set up a relationship with a restaurant with a fryer. And to pick up the oil every week from them. but it means a lot fewer stops to a gas station, once every couple of months.

Although if you live in a groovy town, say, Portland OR, you can go to a biofuel station and buy pre-filtered recycled veggie oil for about a dollar or two a gallon…. i went to a retreat in Portland this month, and a quarter of the participants had driven up in a veggie car!

Greasecar.com has a lot of information. The engineer i bought my car from also has a fantastic website , with loads of information too! And yes, that’s my car now!

it’s also a lot of fun, and it feels so good to get around on something that’s SO much better for the environment.

I am fairly certain that the most labor intensive part of this project will be obtaining and cleaning up the used vegetable oil. The conversion can be expensive, but my neighbor is willing to do it for virtually nothing.