Diesel RVs: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Looking for vegetable oil source in the SF Bay area.

The craigs list supply has gone by-by. My area craigs list only had ads for people wanting to by oil now, so any one with oil that does a quick search, will see that they can sell it for $1-2 a gallon, some times more.

I only put 5 gallons of diesel in the tank at a time in the summer and go 500-800 miles before the next 5 gallons, in the winter, I go with 6 gallons of diesel and refill 4-600 miles. I also cut the veggie with 10-15% kero when day time temps are below 40 highs.

This winter with the lack of veggie, I will only drive on the warmer days and hope to keep it above 100 miles per gal of diesel.

If the oil is free, I see a similar savings on fuel, if I have buy the veggie, the savings are gone with you concider the difference between gas and diesel, the insurance and upkeep on the 2nd car.
My gas guzzeler gets 30-33 mpg on gasoline, and there is a $0.50 a gallon difference in price here. I had a spread sheet the calculated everything out at one time, I need to dig it up and see where my break even point is.

Thanks for the suggestions, I will hit the KoC and VFW posts to see what they have.

Steve

--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, Boyd Wright <bgthegreat@...> wrote:
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> Steve, check the Knights of Columbus or other clubs that have kitchens. I also get free stuff listed on Craigslist. I save about $200 a month. I fill up every week when I am on diesel. When I am running veggie, I get about 900 to 1,000 miles on a tank.
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> I like the $1,800 in the bank at the end of the year.
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> From: Steve Parolin <stevenparolin@...>
> To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 9:35 AM
> Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Looking for vegetable oil source in the SF Bay area.
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> Sorry, I am on the east coast (seacoast of NH), also looking for sources and cant help you, but I am wondering what happened to your source.
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> Most of mine dired up for 2 reasons, the biggest is that the comercial companies priced me out of the game, making it not worth the time and effort to collect, filter, and still save a couple pennies on diesel.
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> The other has been slower business and longer change intervals on the restrants part to save some money on oil.
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> Thanks,
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> --- In mailto:diesel_mercedes%40yahoogroups.com, Lawrence Rhodes <primobassoon@> wrote:
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> > I lost my major source of veg oil. Love to take on more restaurants. Lawrence
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