Comments on: Greg Rose: Straight Veggie Oil Car

By: cinco dias » Carros a óleo vegetal!?!

cinco dias » Carros a óleo vegetal!?! — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:18:04 +0000

[…] O segundo vídeo é da série Ryan is Hungry que é produzido pela Ryanne Hodson e pelo Jay Dedman e tem o título original: Greg Rose: Straight Veggie Oil Car […]

By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Vlogging Sustainability

Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » Vlogging Sustainability — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:19:54 +0000

[…] The post Jay pointed me to - was on Greg Rose and his Veggie Oil car. I’m sure some of the things that came out of their recent trip to India (besides stomach parasites) was an org called Swajana. The whole idea is activism through content. It’s the same time honored tradition of many documentarians.Ryanne and Jay have a whole bevy of efforts and organizations they’re involved in (like Node101, FreeVlog and Have Money will Vlog) - all of them personified by this stack of ‘emblems’ to the right (which is what we call an org oriented icon/logos in a blog gutter.) We’ll have a feature (in PeopleAggregator V 1.2) making it easy for network operators to easily post their own ‘emblems’ of orgs hey support or participate in. […]

By: Ryan Is Hungry » Selling Out Isn’t Easy

Ryan Is Hungry » Selling Out Isn’t Easy — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:10:15 +0000

[…] Shows are different than our personal videoblogs. Ryanne and I each have our own blogs where we’ll keep posting our crazy videos. Advertising would never work there. But RyanisHungry is our attempt to create themed content that basically takes the best part of TV viewing and applies it to the web. We’ll be focusing on personal stories of people changing their habits. Here’s an example of what we’ll be doing. So far, Podtech has made clear that we have artistic control as long as we focus on sustainable culture. […]

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:29:46 +0000

This type of fuel alternative will not save the world.On the otherhand, it will help. There is no one answer. The use of different fuels (as appropriate) may be our best answer. I have a restaurant. I have a maintenance department. For me, the switch to veggie vehicles was an easy decision. We have a 1994 Dodge Ram Truck and I drive a 1985 Merecedes 300D (a cherry compared to the one in the video). The concept is sound. It works. But, I have a restaurant and a maintenance department.It works for me, so I do it.Anyway, I love it. It is so cool.It works. I no longer pay to have my grease hauled away.Incidentally, the Mercedes in the video (no offense) looks like a real amateur conversion.I have seen much cleaner and “slicker” jobs. No mess, everything looks like a “factory” install.

By: Ryan Is Hungry » Eric Case on Biodiesel

Ryan Is Hungry » Eric Case on Biodiesel — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:07:00 +0000

[…] Eric Case is another doubly cool green and tech geek. He works at Google on the Blogger team (hurray Blogger!) and, as you will see in this video, owns a Volkswagon Golf TDI that runs on pure biodiesel. Biodiesel is different than what Greg Rose uses which is Straight Vegetable Oil. Biodiesel is a more processed fuel that does not require your car to be converted for use. Eric walks us through the hows and whys of using biodiesel in his regular diesel Golf. […]

By: Cynthia Shelton

Cynthia Shelton — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:26:00 +0000

VegOil is only one of several options in the portfolio of alternative energies out there. There is no one solution, we have to get far more creative than we have been. That includes, to a great extent, changing our habits. But we all know how hard it is to change habits. Demonstrating alternatives helps people think outside of the habit box. See http://www.vegoil.us for the National VegOil Board website for more information on pushing the boundaries on this particular biofuel.

Thanks for the great video blog!

Cynthia Shelton, Director
NVOB

By: mike

mike — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 02:06:50 +0000

Oh! Great - I’ve been waiting for this one Very interesting… looks when our car finally dies (which won’t be long from the looks of it) we’ll have to buy an old diesel car.

By: jay

jay — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:18:39 +0000

Hey steve–I didnt smell anything. It certainly wasnt any worse than a gasoline car. At least it wouldnt kill you. In the end, we need to support people who are finding alternatives. something will click.

By: ryanne

ryanne — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:46:13 +0000

steve,

i think you are correct in saying the only thing that’s going to save us is to reduce driving. no matter what kind of fuel we use- veggie oil, biodiesel, ethanol, electric- none of them are scalable in terms of the amount people drive currently. there will never be enough energy to meet the demands of all the people driving in the world. period. we know that.

i think people creating alternatives is like a mental shift more than anything. people know now that there is an end in sight for crude oil and for the mainstream brain, that’s a huge step.

-ryanne

By: dorothy

dorothy — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:45:23 +0000

Regarding “veggie mobile” and sustainability, and since I have one also, I can see a new industry growing up around waste veggie oil. There are already 2 people in my community, Santa Barbara, California, collecting and filtering and then selling waste veggie oil. Then I look around at all the restaurants and see all that other waste oil going to “waste”, the dump. That’s a lot of potential fuel. And we mix our veggie oil with 10% diesel to thin it out a little and it burns cleaner. There could be several variations of fuel depending on the microclimates of where you live, since cold climates require some extra heat to get the veggie fuel to flow properly.

The smell, since we use Sushi Restaurant oil, is a little like tempura - very mild. However, the first tank we got when we first bought the car smelled like french fries.

I think this is a viable, sustainable fuel for cars, like they use in Brazil.

By: Steve Elbows

Steve Elbows — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:36:10 +0000

Yeah sorry for getting on my high-horse there. It is an interesting video, and it is always good to see people experimenting with the unconventional. I just cant help being a knob when it comes to how much these alternatives can actually save us, I sure would like some easy answers to energy crisis, just havent found any yet that actually scale up and dont require huge lifestyle changes.

So how bad was the smell from the car? Id also like to know what happens to the vegetable oil if it gets taken away from the restaurant, at a cost, int he standard way? Questions questions, I love any video that creates questions

By: jay

jay — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:19:18 +0000

I don\’t think anyone has ever advocated that everyone can or should have cars that run on vegetable oil. What I love about Greg\’s story is that here\’s a guy who is hacking everyday life. He\’s finding alternatives, even if they are just temporary. He did get off his ass and try something new.

By: ryanne

ryanne — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:15:11 +0000

steve,

agreed
i dont think once in this video did anyone say that this was sustainable
it’s just one person’s story, that’s all.
we thought it was an interesting life style choice.

i did, however choose to use ’sustainable’ as a technorati tag simply for self serving traffic purposes. my bad.

-ryanne

By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:38:54 +0000

This is so great! Thanks so much for helping spread the veggie oil gospel! It was super fun doing the interview.

By: Steve Elbows

Steve Elbows — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:31:55 +0000

This has little to do with sustainability. It doesnt scale up. Its only good in the short-term to save a few people money. The whole reason why the global peak of oil production will be so bad, is because of the sheer quantity of oil that is available right now.

If we try to grow food to use as fuel on that scale, then we will just be starving more people, creating worse moral dilemmas then today. I try to imagine a world fuelled by peanuts, and I only see it working in a world with car less people, or at least far less people driving.

When I think of the future I think of less people, doing less, in more efficient ways. Vegetarians riding bicycles and flying on airships is more like a sustainable solution, but at this stage in the energy crisis, most people are just looking for quick fixes that allow them to carry on much the same as before. All the ’single replacement for oil’ solutions Ive seen to date are nothing but fools gold.