# Grease instead of gas. An answer to high gas prices

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**Created:** [December 31, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/grease-instead-of-gas-an-answer-to-high-gas-prices/41033 "2007-12-31T14:27:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 1, 2008, 8:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/grease-instead-of-gas-an-answer-to-high-gas-prices/41033/16 "2008-01-01T08:57:49Z")

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Just wait 'till the state gets involved…

On the one hand, vegetable oil isn’t considered a motor vehicle fuel in its raw state, and if you’d have to have special EPA dispensation as a “refiner” or fuel processor…

OTOH, I wonder if people go this way, they’d be sued for not paying motor fuel taxes. It’s all nuts, really.

And if you don’t think this hasn’t happened…

[http://www.herald-review.com/articles/2007/03/01/news/local\_news/1021491.txt](http://www.herald-review.com/articles/2007/03/01/news/local_news/1021491.txt)

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