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McDonald's to use vegetable oil for UAE trucks

by iamgoat on 7/4/11, 3:53 PM with 2 comments

  • by rkalla on 7/4/11, 4:36 PM

    Glad to hear this, for some rough math the 20,000 liters of vegetable oil (unprocessed) is roughly 5,200 gallons[1].

    Let's assume we lose no volume during the processing to biodiesel, the average semi carries about 200 gallons of fuel[2] -- so that provides 26 fillups for the year of biodiesel.

    Not huge, but it's a great start. That is still a lot of oil not getting thrown out.

    [1] http://goo.gl/MIhxV [2] http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080326203920AA...