Mr. Rudolf Diesel’s cars at the Paris Worlds Exposition (Fair) in 1900 ran on peanut oil. Peanut oil can do more than power President Jimmy Carter’s would be Myspace page. Peanut oil is a proven fuel source that will work well as a car fuel if it is mixed correctly with other minor ingredients to let the peanut oil ignite at lower temperature.

Igniting at lower temperature has kept the oil from all just catching on fire.

Most peanut oil/ diesel combinations run off diesel for the first five to ten minutes. This allows the vehicle to warm the peanut oil up to the temperature needed to for it to burn in the engine. This one hundred sixty degree temperature is what is necessary before the peanut oil fuel should be allowed to run through the injector.

Some how the idea of frying up some viddles and pouring the waste oil through a filter into a vat; that then will get blended into biodiesel, producing soap, and ‘ a nitro ingredient’ is really appealing. Another reason for do it yourselfer’s to carry that grin lightly on their rightly smug faces is: From the filtered vat the oil can go straight into the non-warm up tank. Yes, a reason to be smug indeed.

Peanut oil cars are being used by the Thailand Police Force very successfully.
According to Reuters, The Thailand Police Force is expanding the use of oil from restaurants inorder to power all their vehicles. Peanut oil is a large portion of this reused oil. The program started off small, but do to its success the program has been expanded.

Whether biodiesel is new world thinking, or a turn in America and the world, back to practical basics due to a shift in general resources and technology-peanut oil will continue to be a flexible fuel for the human body, homes, business equipment, and cars.