{"id":3981,"date":"2011-03-10T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:50:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:50:51","slug":"meet-the-couple-who-love-their-veggie-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/meet-the-couple-who-love-their-veggie-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Couple Who Love Their Veggie Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/veggiecar1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/veggiecar1-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"veggiecar\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/veggiecar1-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/veggiecar1.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One happy couple shares their experience of switching from dirty oil to, well, dirty oil  &#8211; but of the vegetable kind.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Diesel engines can run on waste vegetable oil from restaurants, which gives the grease two happy solutions: it prevents it from clogging up sewerage and powers a vehicle with fewer emissions.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine and Danny say the process of converting their diesel wagon to vegetable oil was surprisingly easy and it only took a couple of days to be done.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#300--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t spend any money on gas now\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, they say, adding that they only use conventional disel once every two months.<\/p>\n<p>The couple have promised to give the car to their small son when he grows up and they say that both from a financial and environmental point of view, the experience has been a success.<\/p>\n<p><em>Watch the video of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/green-tech\/research-innovations\/sponsorvideo\/how-we-made-our-car-run-on-grease\">the couple who runs their car on vegetable oil<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One happy couple shares their experience of switching from dirty oil to, well, dirty oil &#8211; but of the vegetable kind. Related Posts:No Related Posts Found! Go find some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,784],"tags":[787,785,786],"class_list":["post-3981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fuels","category-vegetable-oil","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-diesel-cars","tag-vegetable-oil-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9394,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions\/9394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}