Vegetable oil

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Contents 1 See for 2 Broader Terms 3 Narrower Terms 4 Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

See for

omega 6 fatty acid

Broader Terms

oil

Narrower Terms

Lorenzo oil

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• But why should you make the change? Vegetable oil is renewable: it's not a fossil fuel, so it doesn't contribute to global warming.
• The SVO problem The central problem in using vegetable oil as diesel fuel is that vegetable oil is much more viscous (thicker) than conventional diesel fuel (petro-diesel, DERV, "dino-diesel").
• 5 billion gallons per year of used vegetable oil is available in the USA.
• This requires an extra fuel tank and a system for heating and filtering the oil before it reaches the engine, because pure vegetable oil is too thick to work in the engine unless the oil is heated up.
• The same amount of CO2 is released back into the atmosphere when vegetable oil is burned.

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