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Running on Grease

By Jim Phillips

The Athens NEWS | September 2, 2005

An Ohio man is busy re-tooling diesel engines to run on a fuel you can typically get for nothing -- used cooking grease.

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Tags: Chemically converted biodiesel, energy sources, Piper Avalokita, vegetable oil, vehicles

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