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

2-3 years ago, I lost my biggest supplier, not the cleanest oil, but I was getting about 70-80% yeild on the stuff I picked up. They told me there where no charges and where getting $0.90 a gallon. At the time, I had enough to continue to get me to work and back 5 days a week, about 380 miles a week.

I was also getting oil from cafe where I work, about 8 gallons every othere week, really bad, 40-60% yeild (about 4 good gallons). Twords the end, they extended their changes to maybe once a month, so was closer to the 40%, they signed a contract about a year ago for only $0.40 a gallon, no other fees (they should have done some research cause they could have gotten much more). $0.40 was not bad but here is the thing, this oil was so bad even from the start, the guy that heats his house with veggie that works here was getting it before me and nolonger wanted it, told me I did not want it either, but it was free, so I took it.

I thought about the comercial guys expenses, but I have some of them also, I figure the best places to get it for free are out of the way places, like the small islands off the cost where they would have to pay for a ferry to get the truck there, but I would also have that expense seeing I dont live there, but if I lived there....or up north in the mountians of NH, but again, I run into the same situation, If I have to burn 4 gallons to pick up 4, it does not do me any good.

I would think may others are running into the same situation, unless they own or are friends with a couple restrant owners.

Steve

--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, diyernh <diyernh@...> wrote:
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> Steve,
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> Do you know what they are paying in NH? I lost one source and would
> like to make sure I don't loose the next. I have watched the WVO
> collection for years. It doesn't seem to be a profitable business for
> them. By the time they add the costs of trucks, insurance, workers,
> etc. they are really in the hole.
>
> Do the commercial companies charge the restaurants for tank rentals,
> pickup fees, etc?
>
>
> Carl
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> On 11/29/2012 9:35 AM, Steve Parolin wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > The other has been slower business and longer change intervals on the
> > restrants part to save some money on oil.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steve
> >
> > --- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
> > <mailto:diesel_mercedes%40yahoogroups.com>, Lawrence Rhodes
> > <primobassoon@> wrote:
> > >
> > > I lost my major source of veg oil. Love to take on more restaurants.
> > Lawrence
> > > Rhodes
> > >
> >
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