Cooking Oil instead of Diesel - yes you can do it!
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| 'Ramsay Drummond - leading the way' . |
From the dock, Captain Ramsey Drummond's boat looks like all the others. Once you step on board, you'll notice it smells a little like french fries.
Captain Ramsey has converted his charter fishing boat himself to run on bio-diesel.
'At the time, it was about $4.62 a gallon for off road diesel,' said Ramsey Drummond, 'So you figure in the middle of season we'd burn through about a thousand a week. so you're looking at 4500 a week just in fuel.'
Now he processes his own fuel at home, using cooking oil from the fryers from the restaurant next to his business. It costs him $1.35 a gallon. It keeps the engine on his boat running smoothly, and saves him more than $3,000 dollars a week.
'When you're working on a small budget and trying to keep a boat a float, it definitely helped,' said Drummond.
Drummond says customers have also liked the change because now they don't get sick from the sulfur smell of diesel fuel.
In a crashed economy, it is the innovative who will survive - Anyone else out there doing something similar? Let us know about it at Sail-World Cruising!
by Melissa Yeager, WINK News/Sail-World
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