The fuel is nothing but used vegetable oil which has been tested satisfactorily. It has made a vehicle called the Veggie Van (a motor home) run more than 16,000 km across the United States. Also it has visited 20 major cities causing absolutely no harm to the environment. Vegetable oil from various restaurants in America was all that was used along the entire journey. The novel experiment was started as a college project by two student’s joshna and kaia.It eventually ended in a massive public awareness programme.

The idea of using vegetable oil as a fuel for a diesel engine first occurred to them when they visited a traditional farm in the picturesque Southern Germany where vehicles fuelled by vegetable oil were in use. While studying agriculture and living on these Farms, they noticed that farmers were always filling tanks of a yellow liquid.” This fuel comes from the canola plants which grown on our farms and nearby areas. We put in the diesel and it smells good,”farmers said.

The process of converting vegetable oil into bio-diesel fuel is cheap and easy to find. Any vegetables oil, such as used cooking oil, methanol or clear alcohol can be used as fuel.

The diesel engine which is being used, however, can run on altered vegetables oil or bio-diesel without any modification. Not only does bio-diesel require zero modifications to the engine, this fuel works either by itself or with petroleum diesel.

Bio-diesel has since been recognized as an official alternative fuel in the U.S. Its use by the bus and the truck fleet has soared by more than 100%.