Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code #244

I got a mention in Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code podcast:

I don’t care about cars any more, I’ve had every stupid car you could imagine, except a Ferrari, never owned a Ferrari, but I've had Roll’s Porsches, clunkers, you name it, I’ve probably had it at one point in time even if I couldn’t afford it because I’ve always loved my car. I’ve kind of given up on it. I like the car service, the cab service that we use in Guildford, GM cars, so if you’re in Guildford and looking for a good car service tell them Mr and Mrs Curry sent you! They’re very trustworthy and just great guys.

So we use the car service most of the time but most of the time you need to go somewhere or have you own wheels in your own control and I’ve decided it’s definitely definitley definitely going to be a diesel and I want, over the course of the past 4–5 weeks we’ve talked about bio diesel, not ethanol, pure oil from different sources that you can make a diesel engine run on.

Gareth was nice enough to send me an e–mail about some article about this guy in the UK who bought a peaugot 205 diesel and he figured out how to create biodiesel from the chip shop, from the used up french fried grease. It costs him a total of $0.50 a litre, so about $1.50 a gallon, doing a rough estimate here. He says it costs him about $1000 a year to run his car, which of course depends on how far he's driving. He made a little processor in his shed from an old heating boiler and he asys that the waste vegetable oil from the kebab vans, they’re so happy with him they actually drop it off at his house…