UK Land’s End trip in a Vegetable Oil Car

During the summer of 2003, two men set out to travel the length of Britain to make a point. Despite not knowing each
other, both had the same aim of traveling for Land’s End to John O’Groats in a way that had never been attempted
before and to raise awareness for their cause.

One of these gentlemen was Stephen Gough whose aim was to walk the entire journey naked. His cause was to put the
question to the British public of why we should be ashamed of nakedness when it is our natural form and the way God
created us. A very interesting challenge to our society, and I have to admire his courage, however not particularly a
cause that I would champion!

The other gentlemen that I refer to is myself, Daniel Blackburn, resident of Bwlchygroes. My cause was to
show that it is perfectly possible, and more importantly, perfectly legal to drive a car right across Britain using
only vegetable oil as a fuel. My journey was a lot easier that Mr. Gough’s, I didn’t have to walk, I didn’t get
arrested or have to worry about the midges of Scotland attacking my nether regions.

Both our trips attracted quite a lot of media attention. Mr. Gough did receive considerably more media attention
than myself, which has led me to lament that next time I should drive naked and make a point of being arrested.
However despite this media envy, when I first thought of the idea for the journey I never realised I would get
the amount of coverage that I did. Initially I simply wanted to test the German conversion kit that I had fitted on
my car that allows it to run on pure vegetable oil. My other motive was to have a bit of a holiday visiting friends
across the UK that I had not seen for ages. As time went on and the idea for the journey took more and more
shape I realised that what I was about to undertake was the first journey of its kind in the UK. I therefore
thought I had a responsibility to publicise the journey since the first time anything is done is a once only
occurrence.

Driving a car across the UK on veg oil seemed a bizarre publicity stunt to some and a complete joke to others.
However, there was a more important side to the trip which was my main reason for attracting media attention.
Powering cars on renewable bio fuels, of which pure vegetable oil is one, is likely to have huge benefits to the
global environment. Here follows the scientific explanation. Vegetable oil is formed by plants from carbon
dioxide which they take in from the air, so when you burn vegetable oil in your engine this same carbon dioxide
is released back into the air meaning that there is no build up of this gas in the atmosphere. Currently most
people use fossil fuels in their cars which went burnt releases carbon dioxide from carbon which was previously
trapped in the surface of the earth. This causes carbon dioxide build up in the atmosphere which in turn is
causing global warming. It was convenient that during my trip the UK had its hottest day ever on record
illustrating that we are experiencing global warming.

In addition to the above, using bio fuels have the advantage that they make us less reliant on Middle Eastern
fossil fuels. This has the benefit keeping money in our own economies rather than giving it away to the many
suspect regimes there to buy oil. It also means we would be less likely to commit tax payer’s money and the
lives of our service men to fight wars, like the latest in Iraq, to secure our fossil fuel reserves. Finally oil crops
have the potential to revitalise our agriculture as farmers could have a product that is high in demand rather than
agricultural products at the moment which seem to have minimal demand based on the farm gate prices. I
attempted to get most of the above points across, with varying degrees of success, to the media that were
interested in my journey.

The journey in the end was covered through a large number of radio interviews, an even larger number local
newspaper articles that I managed to arrange in many of the places that I past through, features in two national
newspapers and a whole section of using vegetable oil as a fuel on the BBC’s News night, not forgetting
featuring on local television news. Interest in my story came not only from the UK but also from America and
Australia. I was also asked if the story and pictures from my journey could be used in an English language text
book for schools in China. Interesting to think that me and my car could be staring out of the page at potentially
millions of Chinese school children. The other wonderful thing is where my story has turned up, a friend who
works on the QE II liner saw the story in their on ship newspaper, quite unbeknown to myself.

With stopping at different events and doing so many interviews, not to mention spending time with friends, the
entire trip took almost an entire month. By the time that the car had returned from its travel to Bwlchygroes it
had clocked up 3000 miles all of it on pure vegetable oil bought off the shelf in super markets right across the
country. The only noticeable draw back of using vegetable oil as fuel that I found on the journey, was its
negative affect on my diet. With having appetising smell of frying food following me around all the time I
found myself regularly nipping into chippies on route for my meals, with the result that I had developed quite a
belly by the end of the journey.

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DVD LIQUID GOLD 2

Learn the Do’s and Don’t's of Gathering and using Waste Vegetable oil as a fuel. Perfect for anyone who is currently
using, or planning on using SVO (Straight Vegetable Oil) or Bio Diesel as a fuel!

These questions and more are answered on this DVD:

• The legality of collecting waste vegetable oil and burning it as a fuel.

• Overview of how diesel engines burn waste vegetable oil as fuel.
• How to identify good waste vegetable oil.
• How to identify bad waste vegetable oil.
• How to ask a restaurant for their waste vegetable oil.
• How to fuel up on the fly with the automated One Shot Filtration Unit.
• How to setup your own waste vegetable oil accounts.
• How to collect large quantities of oil for later filtration at home.
• How to filter waste vegetable oil using filter bags.
• How does salt, sugar and animal fats affect waste vegetable oil for fuel?
• How to tell if there’s water in the oil?
• How to filter the oil once it’s been gathered.
• Cold Weather gathering techniques and tips.

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DVD S.V.O. Seminar 2006

Lately there's been a lot of talk about the effects of Global warming due to our love of gas guzzling vehicles and our
dependency on foreign oil. Scientists and entrepreneurs around the world are busy developing what they hope will be
our answer to cleaner burning vehicles. What many people don't realize is that this technology already exists and it's
been around for quite some time now.

This DVD was Shot during a seminar on Straight Vegetable Oil at Ecoversity in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is packed with
2.5 hours of valuable information. Listen along while many of the most frequently asked questions about this technology
are discussed and answered.

These questions and more are answered on this DVD:

• The History of Straight Vegetable Oil

• Different Alternative Fuels
• Straight Vegetable vs. Biodiesel
• Straight Vegetable Oil Facts and Fiction
• Diesel Engines vs. Gasoline Engines
• How a Straight Vegetable Oil System Works
• The Importance of a Vehicles Air Filter
• Increase Power and Economy/Computer Mods
• Oil Gathering 101
• Filtering on the Fly with the One Shot
• Using Filter Bags
• What to do with leftover Nasty Oil
• Diesels Available in the USA

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DVD GREASY RIDER

Picture a cross-country road trip powered by vegetable oil in a 1981 Mercedes-Benz. Greasy Rider follows the two
filmmakers, Joey Carey and JJ Beck, as they meet with fellow Greasecar drivers, friends, and critics. Traveling as far south
as New Orleans and as far north as Seattle, the car is fueled by used cooking grease collected at restaurants along the
way.

Interviews include Morgan Freeman who is opening up a Biodiesel plant in Mississippi. Political analyst Noam Chomsky,
“You're supposed to believe we would have liberated Iraq even if its main product was pickles,” appears along side Yoko
Ono, “This whole world is now ruled by corporations and their greed,” and Tommy Chong, “You guys figured it out. You
got your little bio-car, and there you go.” Additional interviews include the founders of the four major vegetable oil
conversion kit companies, Greasecar, Greasel, Neoteric, and Frybrid, as they discuss the reality of vegetable oil as a fuel.

The heat is felt in this political documentary as America's energy consumption continues to grow. With gas prices on the
rise and the reality of global warming setting in, Greasy Rider points to vegetable oil as one part of the solution to our
energy problems.

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JOURNEY to FOREVER
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The Film:   FUEL

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FUEL is an insightful portrait of America’s addiction to oil and an uplifting testament to the immediacy of new energy
solutions. Director, Josh Tickell, a young activist, shuttles us on a whirlwind journey to track the rising domination of the
petrochemical industry — from Rockefeller’s strategy to halt Ford’s first ethanol cars to Vice President Cheney's
petrochemical company sponsored energy legislation — and reveals a gamut of available solutions to "repower
America" — from vertical farms that occupy skyscrapers to algae facilities that turn wastewater into fuel.

Tickell and a surprising array of environmentalists, policy makers, and entertainment notables take us through America’s
complicated, often ignominious energy past and illuminate a hopeful, achievable future, where decentralized,
sustainable living is not only possible, it’s imperative.

DVD :   Biodiesel #2

Filmed at the National Biodiesel Board Conference and Expo in Palm Springs, CA, this 45 minute video helps qualify the
emissions benefits of biodiesel and illustrates how biodiesel can reduce cancerous diesel emissions.

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DVD:   Biodiesel 101

In this 45-minute presentation, biodiesel author Josh Tickell provides an economic, social and practical context for
biodiesel. "Biodiesel 101" goes deep into the technical world of the biodiesel production, showing how the fuel is
chemically formed. This video also examines current data and trends within the biodiesel industry to illustrate growth
patterns and future potential.

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SOLAR TODAY
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Solar Industry NEWS

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Do not bend over and allow Big Oil to molest your Family, Friends and Community
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DVD: Uncounted; Director: David Earnhardt
DVD: Hacking Democracy; Director: Simon Ardizzone
book: What Went Wrong In Ohio; by Congressman John Conyers
book: What Happened in Ohio; by Bob Fitrakis

IS YOUR CONGRESSMAN IN BED with BIG OIL?

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CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY

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POLLUTION and RACISM, INJUSTICE

book: Confronting Environmental Racism; by Robert Bullard
book: Environmental Injustices; by David Camacho
book: Environmentalism and Economic Justice; by Laura Pulido
book: Pollution and the Death of Man; by Francis Schaeffer
book: From the Ground Up, Environmental Racism; by Luke Cole
book: Struggle for Ecological Democracy; by Daniel Faber
book: No Safe Place, Toxic Waste and Community Action; by Phil Brown

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