Police cars Running On Used Cooking Oil.

Post by **beer monkey** » August 30, 2007, 4:11 am

Police cars running on used cooking oil

The Chiang Mai police have come up with a novel way to reduce their fuel bills.
Used vegetable cooking oil is now being processed into bio diesel that will keep their patrol cars operating round the clock.

Acting National Police Chief Seripisuth Temiyavej was in town to preside over the opening of the new bio-diesel pump at the district police headquarters.
The project will be implemented nationwide, according to the Police Chief.
He added that the rise in the price of oil has increased the cost of regular fuel and the police departments will be able to reduce their fuel bills by using bio-diesel.
Currently there are 40 bio-diesel pump stations and more are being created to provide nationwide coverage.
The used vegetable cooking oil is being provided to the police by restaurants, hotels, factories and traders. Patrol vehicles will use the bio diesel, but vehicles over 10 years old will have to be filled with 50% bio-diesel and 50% diesel.

Post by **ivano** » August 31, 2007, 10:22 am

I know a man in Belgium who does the same thing...
He only buys second hand diesel-engine cars (the newer ones with the injection are not ideal because of the tinner injection tubes) , installs a secondary tank in the trunk of the car and installs a heating element in the tanks (during winter vegetable oil cloggs up, so he needs to heat it up a little to keep it liquid).
He drives around to several french-fries places and collects the used oil from their industrial frying installations... and drives around for free and followed by the beautiful smell of french fries all the time...
A very cheap alternative for the ever increasing oil prices, if you can live with the smell...and with old cars...