St. Louis to Columbus, OH
Day Six – Wednesday, March 15 - St. Louis Missouri to Columbus, Ohio
On our way into St. Louis, we found two containers behind neighboring restaurants that had over 500 gallons of clean, used cooking oil in them. (At $3.00/gallon for diesel fuel, that represented over $1,500 in fuel!) Charlie couldn’t contain himself.
Within 30 minutes, not only did we fill our Transfer Flow auxiliary tank (98 gallons), we were able to refill all of the containers we saved that once had virgin soybean oil in them that we bought from Costco. All in all, we gathered about 150 gallons (or $450) of fuel. And, we left behind 350 gallons for the next P-100 burner (or “waste” oil collector). Unbelievable!
We told this tale to the fine staff of Lou Fusz Chevrolet, who hosted us the next morning for coffee and conversation. Like me, these guys were blown away.
Later, our drive took us from St. Louis on Interstate 70, through Indianapolis and into Columbus, OH. We drove through hundreds of mile of corn fields that could be producing E85 Ethanol for our FlexFuel Chevy Tahoe and corn oil for our P-100 Duramax-Diesel Silverado.
Average air temp: 50
Average MPG: 14.8
On our way into St. Louis, we found two containers behind neighboring restaurants that had over 500 gallons of clean, used cooking oil in them. (At $3.00/gallon for diesel fuel, that represented over $1,500 in fuel!) Charlie couldn’t contain himself.
Within 30 minutes, not only did we fill our Transfer Flow auxiliary tank (98 gallons), we were able to refill all of the containers we saved that once had virgin soybean oil in them that we bought from Costco. All in all, we gathered about 150 gallons (or $450) of fuel. And, we left behind 350 gallons for the next P-100 burner (or “waste” oil collector). Unbelievable!
We told this tale to the fine staff of Lou Fusz Chevrolet, who hosted us the next morning for coffee and conversation. Like me, these guys were blown away.
Later, our drive took us from St. Louis on Interstate 70, through Indianapolis and into Columbus, OH. We drove through hundreds of mile of corn fields that could be producing E85 Ethanol for our FlexFuel Chevy Tahoe and corn oil for our P-100 Duramax-Diesel Silverado.
Average air temp: 50
Average MPG: 14.8
posted by Tom Holm at 3/23/2006 06:47:00 PM
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