Reply #10: Yeah, but at 60 miles per gallon, that's cheaper than gas [View All]

My initial thought was that diesel was more expensive than gas, but was looking at some diesel cars (i.e. VW Rabbit/Golf) and they seem to get twice as many miles per gallon as the average car and 3x the mileage of the average SUV.

PLUS, you can use biodiesel in them .... or make your own!

http://www.journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make.html

Was looking at all of this awhile back and thought that if a person could make a deal with a restaurant or two where they'd give you their used cooking oil for free (a deal for them since they wouldn't have to pay a degreaser to haul it away), this stuff could be cooked up very cheaply -- only having to pay for the cheesecloth to strain the food particles out of the oil and the additional chemicals to make the biodiesel.

My next car will definitely be a diesel ... hopefully there will be diesel hybrids by then.