BA> BA>>> Heating oil is up $.40 in the past week or so.  It's now about
BA> BA>>> $3.35/gallon. Dunno what I'm going to do next winter.

BA> RW>> Start collecting used deep fry oil from the fast food
BA> RW>> joints...there's a method to clean and thin it so it should work.

BA> TW> For a Diesel Car that may work but it is Hardly practical concidering
BA> TW> the Usage rate for House Heating.

BA>Yesterday I helped install an industrial garage door (14wx13h), replacing th
BA>one
BA>that was there.  The garage is heated, apparently with waste motor oil.  The
BA>guy
BA>there said they went through about 5,700 gallons of it over a winter.  Note
BA>that
BA>(a) it's a big garage - four bays, each about 35 feet deep with 16 foot
BA>ceilings and
BA>(b) he kept the inside at 72F.  There was a huge tank of waste oil on one wa
BA>it
BA>must have been six feet in diameter and fifteen feet long.

OK there are soem Stats. HOW many fast food restruantsa would need to
get 570 GALONS of Oil??

Now waste oil is FAR more practical. But still there is a finate limit
to how many could heat their home.

As a side note here in California it is ILLEGAL to Burn Waste Oil
because of the toxic metals that go up the stack.
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