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Lovecraft Biofuels is a cooperative of people with a common goal of promoting alternative fuels.

Lovecraft Biofuels is a cooperative of people with a common goal of promoting alternative fuels. Currently, we are actively converting diesel powered vehicles to run on new and waste vegetable oil. To keep these vehicles on the road, we are setting up a network of private and community fueling stations across the country. So far, they are operating in Seattle, San Francisco, Berkeley, and Los Angeles, with many more in the works. Please contact us if you have any interest in helping us with this project. Wherever you are located, we can help you easily, and cheaply set up a personal, or community fueling station.

Interest in vegetable oil as a fuel may be for environmental, political, and/or financial reasons. We’re working with people from all walks of life. Our customers include truckers, activists, liberals, conservatives, and anyone interested in clean burning, free fuel from renewable resources produced in the US.

Our main headquarters is located in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles, where we do conversions, and have a selection of vehicles already converted, and available for sale.

We can be contacted at

Los Angeles Area: (213) 291-8587

Toll Free: 1-(877)-201-4369

http://www.lovecraftbiofuels.com

(Many thanks to Chelsea Volkerts for passing this very interesting company along. Russ)

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Grease Is the Word: Fill It Up With Fry Oil

Jim Norman/The New York Times

ON a recent return trip from Massachusetts to my home in New Jersey, a distance of 160 miles, I burned a total of two cups of diesel fuel in my 2001 Volkswagen Jetta TDI.

A Restaurant Problem Becomes a Solution
Daryl Beck for The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/automobiles/23FRY.html

Jim Norman, the author of this article, says that after more than 2,000 miles on veggie oil, there seem to be few disadvantages to the transformation.

Since that would indicate fuel economy of more than 600 miles per gallon, something didn’t quite compute.

The missing part of the equation was this: I was returning from Easthampton, Mass., where Daryl Beck, a mechanic well versed in such matters, had just installed a secondary fuel system in my car. The main fuel I used on the drive home was not diesel, which the Jetta was designed to burn, but straight vegetable oil.

I used diesel fuel for only the first 10 miles of the trip. After that, the diesel gauge stayed right where it was while the VW sped happily along on soybean oil — the same stuff that restaurants use for deep frying and salad dressing. I used less than three gallons of oil for the final 150 miles of my trip home, which calculates out to more than 50 miles per gallon. Not bad.

The conversion kit that Mr. Beck installed was produced by Greasecar, a manufacturer of vegetable fuel units for diesel cars; gasoline engines cannot be converted to burn vegetable oil. The kit cost about $900, including an optional temperature gauge and audible warning signal, and another $1,000 for the installation, which takes an experienced mechanic about seven hours.

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/automobiles/23AUTO.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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