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Until recently, vegetable oil was reserved for cooking. Now, a growing trend can have you pouring it in your car. "When fuel prices are high, you can save hundreds of dollars a month," said Justin Carven of Greasecar Vegetable Fuel Systems in Holyoke.

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Greasecar's Baseball Team

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Check out the March 2009 issue of Diesel Power for a full article on Greasecar Motorsports and the first ever alternative-fueled Baja 1000 Race Car. Available on news stands now!

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"The early years were pretty slow," noted Carven. "It was a small shop with just myself making kits one at a time."

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Check out Diesel World's November 2008 issue for a complete 31 point step-by-step installation of a Greasecar 2nd Gen Powerstroke installation.

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By CATHY DYSON

French fries and hush puppies keep Erik Whittington going on his daily commute from Locust Grove to Stafford County.

The 38-year-old doesn't eat them by the pound. He uses the oil they're cooked in to fuel his 2002 Volkswagen Jetta, which has a diesel engine.

He gets used cooking oil from Virginia Barbeque in Spotsylvania County, then filters it several times to remove goo left behind after deep-frying.

Then, he pumps the amber-colored liquid into his tank, turns the key and gets 45 to 48 miles per gallon.

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Dick Murphy's Chevrolet Suburban has a very distinctive new-car smell.

The scent, however, is not that of fresh vinyl and rubber, but something more akin to fried chicken.

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It's a $2-per-gallon bargain for drivers

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Maureen Sullivan found her answer to surging gas prices in a place most wouldn't think to look: the frying pan.

She converted a 1992 Mercedes Benz 300 to run largely on used vegetable oil. "I pay $50 a month for gas instead of $200," she said. "Sometimes the only way to revolutionize things is to start the revolution yourself."

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A New York man uses used vegetable oil to run his car. Affiliate WBNG has the story

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COBOURG - What is bigger than a deep-fryer and uses litres of vegetable oil, but is much healthier?

If you guessed a car, you're likely much greener than the average person.

Cobourg resident, social worker and Executive Director of Salem Mental Health Services (a province-wide organization) and frequent Hwy. 401 commuter, Mark Vander Vennen is one of those green people. His latest endeavour earned him the respect of his 14-year-old daughter Rachel, and, having just completed a book about, among other issues, environmental degradation, it made him feel better too.

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Namibia: Bio-Fuels for the Future

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1 February 2008
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Catherine Sasman
Windhoek

With crude oil prices unlikely to decrease from an all-time high of about US$100 per barrel, Namibia joins the race to find sustainable alternatives.

Imagine spending N$10 on fuel to cover a distance of about 600 kilometers. This is what Michael Linke did some weeks back with his diesel truck.

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This may sound strange, but you can run your diesel car or truck on vegetable oil and nearly eliminate your use of traditional gas or diesel. For certain people, veggie oil could lead to major savings. Called veggie cars or grease cars, these vehicles have fuel systems modified to burn both diesel fuel and straight vegetable oil. The idea is actually a modern twist on the original intention for the diesel engine.

But even proponents say veggie oil is not for everyone because of the extra work it requires. Nevertheless, there is a small, but growing, part of the population that's passionate about using grease to make their cars go. These people are drawn to this alternative fuel because it saves them money, gives them more control of their transportation fuel needs and makes a difference for the environment.

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Can a car or truck use vegetable oil as fuel? Yes, with some modifications a diesel car or truck can use old filtered food grade vegetable oil (the kitchen oil that restaurants throw out everyday) as fuel. I have a 2004 Passat TDI, and I bought a kit from GreaseCar (see www.greasecar.com) that allows me to use vegetable oil or diesel as fuel in my car.

Where did I get this idea? My co-worker had a Greasecar, and he told me about the financial benefits that he was getting with his converted 1996 Passat TDI. The cost of gasoline is around $2.50 - $3.00 per gallon. Waste vegetable oil (WVO) can be acquired for free, and it can be bought already filtered (I pay $1.25 per gallon).

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Check out Robert's '88 Wrangler: it's running a 2.1L Renault diesel and it gets 30 mpg on waste vegetable oil. That's right, and that none of that seems to stop it from being totally burly and badass, as pictured. With the price of gas pushing three bucks a gallon in many places, the idea of converting one's ride to run on free fuel for life becomes increasingly appealing. Fortunately, Greasecar.com sells a relatively simple conversion kit that includes an extra fuel tank, filtration system, and plumbing, that can allow virtually any diesel-powered vehicle to run on the old fry grease that restaurants will happily give you for free. You keep your ride's existing fuel system intact to run diesel during warm-up, because the viscous vegetable oil needs to be heated to the point where it's runny enough to burn. So you'd probably have to fill up with a tank of diesel—oh, every 6 months or so.

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"That is so cool! What is it?" That's the opening line of countless conversations we've had since first taking this lean green machine on the road. "Is it an ambulance?" "Is it an armored car?" "Is it a Hummer on steroids?" What we have here is a 1994 Ford E-350 diesel Type III ambulance that has been renovated inside and out. The metallic green paint job may look cool, but what makes this vehicle special is that it has also been converted to run on waste vegetable oil (WVO).

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A sign of the times. I saw this car parked on my street today advertising that it's powered by vegetable oil. I'm sure you've heard about this "technology." It's nothing new however since apparently it's been known for years that most diesel engines can operate on vegetable oil. But only recently are people starting to become hip to the fact. I'm no car afficianado, but the car pictured here appears to be an early '80s diesel engine Mercedes. This line was introduced in response to the gas crunch of the '70s. (Interesting how we seem to go in circles on this issue.)

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OCEAN SHORES — Most people don't like to take their work home after clocking out.

But Galway Bay manager Rob Paylor carts every drop of waste fryer grease from the restaurant to his Aloha home every week, destined for the engine inside his 1977 Mercedes diesel sedan.

He's converted the car to run primarily on this excess fryer grease, a change that's costing him "pennies on the dollar" compared to diesel.

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The Mini is lime green and converted to run on vegetable oil. The diesel engine they put in the Mini was a little big, so the front of the Mini has an odd look with the tires slightly pushed out. The Mini was in a sidewalk booth but the organizers later had it moved it to the center of the show where more people could see it. Smart move, as the Mini was one of the cooler cars at the show.

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But Justin Carven, president of Greasecar Vegetable Fuel Systems in East Hampton, Mass., which manufactures converters that allow diesel-powered vehicles to run on vegetable oil, disagreed.

"If you properly clean and filter the oil, you can get a lot of use out of the engine," said Carven, who has worked on a pilot program for commercial vehicles and for a number of tractor-trailers. "We've converted a number of larger tractor-trailers and when they use clean fuel, they've been highly successful, exceeding 200,000 miles since conversion [to vegetable oil]."

Greasecar has seen demand increase since it was launched seven years ago. Last year, the company sold 1,500 conversion kids. "With fuel prices peaking last year, it definitely encouraged a lot of interest," said Carven.

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$4-a-gallon gas? Who cares when you drive a vehicle that runs on waste vegetable oil collected from local restaurants.

I love the look people give me when I tell them my car gets 118 miles per gallon. It's even better when they find out I drive a 1994 Chevy Suburban, one of the early kings of the gas-guzzling SUVs.

This rig isn't powered by hydrogen or natural gas and it's not a hybrid. It's a "frybrid." Vegetable oil is its main source of fuel. And, no, I don't go to the grocery store to buy bottles upon bottles of Wesson oil when it's on sale.

In fact, that's the best part: My fuel is free.

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And starting soon his former diesel-guzzling 1993 model will dine weekly on a local eatery's oil.

This week, the new director of Beaufort's Coastal Conservation League picked up his first 5-gallon batch of brown, used vegetable oil at Bateaux Restaurant in Port Royal to run his fuel-efficient car - for free.

Three years before coming to Beaufort, Moore went the veggie route as a student at Vermont Law School.

"I had my nose in a book about environmental law all day," he said. "I needed a hands-on project."

In June Moore drove his veggie car from Columbia with his wife, getting 35 miles to the gallon, to take over the local League chapter. The nonprofit fights to protect South Carolina's coastal habitats.

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Anthony Lefebvre of Pittsfield commutes over 100 miles roundtrip each day to Springfield.

"I was spending about $90 to $100 a week on gas," said Lefebvre.

That all changed two weeks ago after Lefebvre installed a Greasecar Vegetable Oil Conversion System in his Volkswagen Beetle. The system allows diesel vehicles to run on straight, filtered vegetable oil.

"You start the engine on diesel and you stop the engine on diesel, but once the vegetable oil is hot enough, you can run the car on vegetable oil. The engine coolant is diverted around the oil filter for the vegetable oil and that will heat up the oil inside with the extra heat from your engine. Once I flip the switch, the diesel needle never moves," said Lefebvre.

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$4-a-gallon gas? Who cares when you drive a vehicle that runs on waste vegetable oil collected from local restaurants.

I love the look people give me when I tell them my car gets 118 miles per gallon. It's even better when they find out I drive a 1994 Chevy Suburban, one of the early kings of the gas-guzzling SUVs.

This rig isn't powered by hydrogen or natural gas and it's not a hybrid. It's a "frybrid." Vegetable oil is its main source of fuel. And, no, I don't go to the grocery store to buy bottles upon bottles of Wesson oil when it's on sale.

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Grease power hits the road

By Ralph Ranalli, Globe Staff | August 9, 2007

WELLESLEY -- Michael Cohen is a senior marketing associate for a Fortune 500 company, who lives in a brick and green-clapboard house on a tree-lined lane called Bluebird Road. There are golf clubs in his garage and a gold-tone Mercedes in the driveway. Both his hair and lawn are impeccably trimmed.

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"Gatsby Gets the Green Light" converts their van to run on vegetable oil and takes it out on tour.

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Chantale Doyle needs fuel, but she's not looking for a gas station.

Instead, she steers her Volkswagen van down a narrow, graffitied Toronto alley and parks behind a pub. She walks past the flies buzzing around the recycling bin and peels the lid off a 60-gallon steel drum.

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Top 10 Most Outrageous Cars for 2006
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A car that drives on water. A gold sports car. A paint job that changes color based on how hot or cold it is outside. Vehicles that run on restaurant grease. Just when you think there couldn't be anything more unbelievable (read: crazy) than those, we've got six others to make your jaw go south (and maybe cause your wallet to quiver). From the $2 million Natalia to the insane-fast Viper, this outrageous bunch of cars is making the roads a little more interesting. Even for those of us just watching.

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Today we're starting a two-part article on our new vegetable fuel system. In this first part, we will discuss the components of a vegetable fuel system and how one runs a diesel truck on vegetable oil. In the second part, we'll get into the types of fuels we're able to burn in our truck and the environmental questions involved.

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Shane Sellers has been cooking up the miles between his home and work at Frederick Community College, but you may smell his 1981 Volkswagen Rabbit truck before you see it.

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Justin Carven, 30, founded the SVO kit company Greasecar in East Hampton, Mass., in 2001, and has sold more than 4,000 kits since. He says his company has sold more kits than any such company in the country, and each kit now retails for $995.

"I began the R&D in 1998 and at that time I was only aware of one other person who was running a vehicle on vegetable oil," he said. "This really only began about 10 years ago."

Carven said he personally owns four SVO vehicles, including a 2001 Mercedes that he has driven 90,000 miles on vegetable oil. Skeptics of the system say that vegetable oil is tougher on engines.

Rudolf Diesel actually introduced his first stable diesel engine, running on peanut oil, at the 1900 Paris Exhibit, before dying mysteriously in 1913 when he disappeared over the bow of the steamship Dresden.

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KARENA RUGGIERO, scrunched down in the cockpit of a tiny solar-powered racecar, never saw the small rock in the driveway of Peter Pratt's Inn. But she knew it was there when the ground-scraping car -- a brightly colored sliver with a wide bustle of photovoltaic cells splayed out behind -- stopped dead in its tracks.

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Watch the feature about Greasecar and the crew by Bob Dotson on the Today Show. It broadcast on November 30, 2006.

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KVBC converted a VW Jetta in November of 2004. In this follow up clip the Saving You Money team gives a update a year later and checks in with several Las Vegas folks who have converted.

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And you thought they were bad for the environment.

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In the span of just two years, Justin Carven invented the first waste-oil conversion kit for diesel engines, graduated from Hampshire College, drove a vegetable-oil-fueled van across the country, and started his very own company. Six years later, Greasecar Vegetable Fuel Systems is selling so many conversion kits that Carven is talking about setting up franchises in India and Brazil. Grist talked to him about the etiquette of snagging free waste oil, Iraq vets' conversion to veggie oil, the economics of environmental goodness, and more.

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The October 30, 2006 issue of Junior Scholastic discusses how the US consumes more oil than any country in the world, and how one teen, Greasecar customer Jeffrey Goh, is doing his part to lessen Americans' oil dependence.

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Check out the spot produced by New York independent filmmaker, Trish Dalton.

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A typical fuel tank holds 15 gallons. Where do people get that much vegetable oil? Most of our customers are using recycled cooking oil from restaurants.

So I can get all the fuel I need at the local fast-food joint? Restaurants can produce as much as 100 gallons of waste oil per week, which they're willing to give away. Plus, the converted vehicles have one tank for diesel and one for vegetable oil -- so you have backup fuel.

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Got grease? Justin Carven of Greasecar Vegetable Fuel Systems LLC does. The 29-year-old founder's Easthampton, Massachusetts, business makes conversion kits that allow diesel engines to run on vegetable oil. "Ultimately, it's the rising fuel prices that are convincing people to get onboard," says Carven. Greasecar sales have grown by more than 200 percent each year over the past couple of years and are expected to reach up to $2.5 million this year. And the company is jumping into the commercial and municipal markets with enthusiasm.

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Very few people these days escape the impact of high fuel prices. But Brian V. Moran, a professional engineer (P.E.) and Licensed Site Professional (LSP) at Norfolk Ram Group, LLC (Norfolk) is faring better than most. He recently converted his 1983 Mercedes sedan into a "veggie car," which runs primarily on waste vegetable oil (WVO), which he gets free from a local Chinese restaurant. "I've heard that my car smells like egg rolls," says Moran, "but that's a small price to pay."

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It couldn't quite be called a trend yet, but at least two local residents are combating global warming, Islamic terrorism and air pollution by powering their cars on homemade alternative fuels.

Wood River High School biology teacher Larry Barnes mixes up biodiesel, which is an altered form of a vegetable oil and can be used in any vehicle that runs on diesel fuel. Josh Solly, the co-owner of a log home restoration business, uses straight vegetable oil, which only needs to be filtered before being poured into the tank, but has required some modification to his vehicle.

In both cases, the home entrepreneurs' raw material is used fryer oil from restaurants. It would otherwise be thrown away.

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A drive up the Long Beach Freeway, trapped between a dozen soot-belching big rigs from the port, is a good example of why diesel engines have such a lousy reputation in this country.

Motorists know diesel not only from the tremendous air quality problems caused by big trucks and ships that ply waters off the coast, but from the clanking engines of the 1970s-era Mercedes-Benz cars and the kerosene-like odors that announce their arrival. But a revolution is underway and a key development occurred just last week that will have a major effect on the future of diesel.

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It's been a regular topic of discussion around the Region 5 offices in Tyler—high fuel prices. With on-again, off-again soaring gas and diesel costs, some Tyler staffers have begun looking for alternative means of getting to work, including purchasing a more fuel-efficient car and car pooling. But for Timmy Burris the answer to high gas prices was not found in a new-car lot, but instead in his own kitchen.

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Joe and Barbara Floeser were cruising for free fuel behind a strip mall when they spotted the Chinese takeout place and stopped the car.

"Do you have any oil you're throwing out?" Joe asked through the back door. "I'd like your oil. ...Our car runs on it."

The suburban couple's 2001 Jetta diesel has been retro-fitted to run on vegetable oil even stuff already used to fry egg rolls or chicken wings.

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Driving down the interstate, you might spot Trip Hornsmith's 2001 Volkswagen Golf TDI and assume that it runs on diesel fuel.

But idle in traffic, and the truth will be revealed by the tailpipe. Hornsmith's car also runs on fry grease – yes, the same stuff that restaurants use for deep frying.

The 30-year-old White Stone resident, who faces a daily drive of about 130 miles round trip to work, converted his car about a year ago. It can now run on vegetable oil or diesel fuel.

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Priscilla McLellan's Volkswagen really cooks on the road.

Priscilla said, It does not sound different or drive different. the smell is different."

That's because Priscilla drives vegetarian. Used restaurant vegetable oil powers her car.

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The Automotive section of The New York Times ran four feature articles on Greasecar and the vegetable oil alternative. Jim Norman, a Greasecar customer and New York Times writer focuses on his own conversion experiences, as well as collection of oil from restaurants. There is also a piece on the pending regulations for veg oil use and Greasecars negotiations with the EPA.

Instead of heading for the gas station when it's time to fill 'er up, Kandell makes the round of restaurants in Huntington, N.Y., picking up used fryer grease he gets for free.

Sal Pagnotta, who owns Rosa's Pizza, admitted that when Kandell first asked him for the oil, "I thought he was crazy. I thought he was lying to me!"

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Greasecar installer Wally Little & customers Jonathan Pratt and Brett Baker all make appearences on this piece about Biofuels. Wally and Jon Pratt have some great screen time in this well thought out segment.

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Most drivers fuel their vehicles with gasoline. Robert Tomey powers his with French fry grease.

The owner of four McDonald's — in Amory, Aberdeen, Houston and Vernon, Ala. — recently converted his Volkswagen Beetle and the company's Ford pickup truck to run on used vegetable oil drained from his fryers.

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These days, everybody's looking for ways to save money at the pump. One unconventional option - skipping the pump altogether and running your diesel car on leftover frying grease from a restaurant.

We've just tested this new "grease-car" technology to see if it really does offer a free ride.

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Greasecar installer Andrew Couch is featured in the TV news clip from Memphis, TN.

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Keith Azevedo's 11th- and 12th-graders knew he was into hands-on education when they signed up for his class in environmental issues. But the Mansfield High School students had no idea how dirty their hands would get.

Dirt happens when you're converting an old school bus to run on vegetable oil.

''I thought it was just something to get our minds going, get us thinking," 17-year-old Chris Mansour said of the classroom discussions about alternative fuels. ''I was kind of surprised when he actually had us trying to find a bus. I still can't believe I'm standing in this bus right now."

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Webster Thomas High School students install a Greasecar kit in this news clip.

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Southerners love their deep fried food, from chicken to okra and everything between. And now, they can even deep fry their rides.

Andrew Couch started Deep Fried Rides a few years ago, a business that installs fuel systems allowing vehicles to run on vegetable oil. The systems can only be put in diesel engines because they're made of heavier-duty materials that can handle high temperatures and run on thicker fuels.

"The first diesel was actually run on peanut oil," Couch said. "The problem was that it kept on clogging everything up."

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It may be the loading dock to a Brooklyn bakery, but for John Connolly, it's also a fueling station. Believe it or not, once a week, Connolly picks up gallons of used vegetable oil to power his 1993 Mercedes.

Connolly said, "I like to get something for nothing. It's something that would ordinarily be thrown away, and I can make good use of it."

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All it took was two pints of Rich O's house porter for Marty Hanka and Phil Inman to start a business. They decided that Louisvillians are ready for their cars to run on a dirt cheap alternative fuel, one as natural as the wind and as available as a hamburger.

Yes, vegetable oil.

In the true spirit of an independent venture, neither man asked for the advice of financial gurus or research analysts, but acted only on his own intuition — that of a homegrown environmental engineer (Hanka, who's 44) and a Tazmanian Sea Ray salesman and handy-man (Inman, 45).

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With high prices at the pump and the threat of global warming an everyday reality, more Americans are looking into alternative sources of fuel. NY1's Shazia Khan filed this report on one unlikely fuel source that's more than cheap – it's free.

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If everything goes according to plan in a Governor Dummer Academy class this fall, a green 1991 Mercedes Benz will gain some new attributes, including a switch that allows the car to run on vegetable oil and exhaust fumes that smell like fish sticks, french fries, or chicken fingers from the boarding school's cafeteria.

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As the rest of the country grimaces at climbing gas prices, Jack Berry loads buckets of oil into his car and marvels at the words that replay in his head:

"Come and get it," the restaurant owners tell him. "You can have it."

It's free oil, and although it's canola, not crude, it makes little difference to Berry, who pours it in the gas tank of his Mercedes-Benz and gets the same mileage he got when he paid $3 for a gallon of diesel.

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Motor Trend radio interviewed Greasecar owner and founder Justin Carven on 9/24/05. Justin was on air for over an hour, taking phone calls and e-mail questions.

Bryan Gembusia loves his 1984 Mercedes-Benz 300 Turbo Diesel.

As Gembusia heads down Park Drive coming out of Boiling Springs, slightly above the speed limit, you can see that it's got a fair bit of power, even for a car with 155,000 miles on it. The five-cylinder, 3.0-liter engine still roars when you floor it, 20-plus years after it rolled off a German assembly line.

Just before pulling into his destination, the South Middleton Township municipal building, Gembusia reaches for a switch on an installed console between the driver's and passenger's seats and flicks it. A red light goes off.

"We're back on diesel," Gembusia says.

The trip odometer reads 103 miles; the fuel gauge is still pegged at full.

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OK, so you won't be able to get the french fry scent completely out of the seat cushions.

Is that too high a price to avoid paying increasingly high prices at the pumps?

Alan Croxton doesn't think so. When I caught up with him recently, the New Brighton, Beaver County, man was retrofitting one of his company's trucks to run not on its customary diesel fuel but on used vegetable oil.

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On evenings and weekends, a schoolteacher and a city council campaign manager are working on a quiet revolution in their backyard parking areas.

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Every few weeks, Etta Kantor goes to a Chinese restaurant and fills a couple of five-gallon pails with used cooking oil. Back in her garage, the 59-year-old philanthropist and grandmother strains it through a cloth filter and then pours it into a custom-made second fuel tank in her 2003 Volkswagen Jetta diesel station wagon. Once the car is warmed up, she flips a fuel toggle on the dashboard to switch to the vegetable oil. Wherever she drives, she's trailed by the appetizing odor of egg rolls.

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Anthony Lefebvre of Pittsfield commutes over 100 miles roundtrip each day to Springfield.

"I was spending about $90 to $100 a week on gas," said Lefebvre.

That all changed two weeks ago after Lefebvre installed a Greasecar Vegetable Oil Conversion System in his Volkswagen Beetle. The system allows diesel vehicles to run on straight, filtered vegetable oil.

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In this television news clip Greasecar customer David Gardner gets more press for his VW Jetta TDI Greasecar in Cincinnati, OH.

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Joel Henderson isn't a hippie, a tree hugger, or even a fan of expensive organic foods.

But he does worry about rising gas prices, so earlier this year he spent $1,200 to convert his 2001 Ford F-250 diesel pickup to run largely on grease that's been discarded from restaurants.

The 35-year-old Whitman information technology worker must endure the sometimes messy and complicated process of collecting grease as well as the occasional whiff of fries in his truck.

But he says it's worth it because he now only needs enough diesel fuel to start up and shut down the engine.

''I drive about 50 miles a day and never spend more than $10 a week on fuel," said Henderson, who estimates he would otherwise be spending about $80 a week.

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Dave Kandell, a Huntington resident of 15 years, was astonished when he found an website detailing the finer points of running a car on vegetable oil. Having always been interested in cars and mechanics as a hobby, Kandell "thought it was a scam" until he tried it himself, only to find that it was both environmentally beneficial as well as financially conservative.

PORTSMOUTH - Dan Hansche's last trip to the garage with his nearly 30-year-old Mercedes produced only one response from his mechanic: Your car smells like a cookout.

Hansche, who purchased the diesel vehicle in August with the intention of converting the car into a vegetable-burning machine, runs his 1976 Mercedes almost exclusively on vegetable oil, causing the exhaust to emit a smell reminiscent of a burger cooked on a grill.

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Greasecar customer Shawn Wood is featured in this Florida article which details Greasecar and other conversions systems.

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EASTHAMPTON, Mass. -- From the rear of an abandoned rubber factory, under the shadow of Mt. Tom, Justin Carven says he has figured out a way for Americans to save money on gas, curb air pollution and reduce their dependence on foreign oil.

A tousled 28-year-old in a mechanic's shirt and wire-rimmed glasses, Carven is the inventor of the Greasecar Vegetable Fuel Systems, a $795 kit that is fitted under the hoods of diesel cars and trucks and allows them to run on used vegetable oil. Once a vehicle is transformed into a Greasecar, every McDonald's, Dunkin' Donuts and neighborhood Chinese restaurant becomes a potential fuel stop.

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Seattle Greasecar customer Matt Gurney is featured in this MSN Money story about Biodiesel and SVO conversions. Matt powers his Peugeot diesel wagon with waste vegetable oil from Fare Start, (www.farestart.org)a program, which helps train and place homeless men and women in to the food service industry.

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KVBC converted a VW Jetta in November of 2004. In this follow up clip the Saving You Money team help a Las Vegas couple get started on a Greasetruck conversion.

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Greasecar customer Chris Reville gets some local press exposure in this TV clip.

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Greasecar is featured in the March 2005 issue of Maxim Magazine. Look for the article 'Have Fries, Will Travel'. Jennifer Love Hewitt is on this month's cover.

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Justin makes the Boston Herald's list of the years top newmakers along side Britney Spears, Cat Stevens and Bill O'Reilly

What a world it would be if you could fill up your tank for free. Well it turns out, you can after converting it to run on used grease from a kitchen. Think that sounds far fetched? Saving You Money's Jim Snyder did too, until we tried it ourselves and gave birth to the Greasecar.

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Greasecar founder and president Justin Carven makes Outside Magazine's list of the 25 coolest people now, along side Lance Armstrong and Arnold Schwarznegegger.

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Cruising in his turbocharged Ford F-250 pickup truck, Jonathan Pratt chuckles to himself as he drives past a gas station with ever-increasing diesel prices. Pay more than $2.50 a gallon for diesel gasoline? Not a chance, he says, and heads to his own free fuel source: Umami Cafe in Croton.

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Dave Dunham, a Web master from Fayetteville, Ark., proclaims he is not an environmentalist, but just "incredibly cheap." Since 2001, he has fueled his cars with waste cooking oil he gets free from restaurants. After being used to make french fries, chicken fingers, egg rolls or tempura, the vegetable oil gets a new life, running his 1998 diesel Volkswagen Beetle. New York Times

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There's gold in them thar deep-fat fryers. And we're not talkin' french fries. We're talkin' used fry oil. Yep, the stuff that stays in the fryer after your fried chicken and your fried fish and your fried fries have been pulled out. From The Oregonian

On the surface, the Patio Kings look like any other rock band on tour. With 25 cities and dozens of smoky clubs on its calendar, the band has traveled the country in a 1997 Chevy extended cargo van to spread sounds of soul and funk. What is different is how the Kings are fueling their van: vegetable oil... NPR Radio: All Things Considered

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Record prices at the pump are peaking people's interest in fuel alternatives...

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Doug Gehrig owns several McDonalds restaurants and uses his Greasecar to burn his waste oil. From NBC channel 17

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Scott Runkel and his middle school students turned a pretty sorry looking 1981 VW Rabbit into a Greasecar and a Sun Valley, ID weekly did a story about it.

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Greasecar was featured in the March 2004 issue of Car and Driver Magazine. Read the article online at the Car and Driver Magazine website.

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If you and your Greasecar receive media coverage, we'd like to hear about it. Contact:

Greasecar Vegetable Fuel Systems
933 Main St.
Holyoke, MA 01040
413.534.0013
justin@greasecar.com