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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK fuel is heavily taxed, but you can avoid the taxes and reduce waste by making your own diesel without expensive equipment
1·5 days agohttps://www.instructables.com/How-to-Build-a-High-Speed-Centrafuge/
Only necessary for filtering used oil, however
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.
12·6 days agoHe is unironically more enlightened though
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK fuel is heavily taxed, but you can avoid the taxes and reduce waste by making your own diesel without expensive equipment
12·6 days agoI’m only speaking from what I have read. Apparently it is perfectly fine to run engines on biodiesel from using cooking oil or diesel from used motor oil as long as you have a good filtering process using a centrifuge. And I’m not saying that everyone will be able to save or make money this way, just that it’s something one could explore and at least limit the amount of tax they give to a corrupt government.
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK fuel is heavily taxed, but you can avoid the taxes and reduce waste by making your own diesel without expensive equipment
11·6 days agoMy understanding is that the vast majority of US subsidies in this area are for production rather than consumption subsidies aimed at reducing the price (only $44 billion out of $760 billion). The US is also on the lower end of fossil fuel subsidies compared to other countries at $28.16 per person in 2021, which seems considerably less than how much each person would have paid in fuel taxes that year.
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK fuel is heavily taxed, but you can avoid the taxes and reduce waste by making your own diesel without expensive equipment
14·6 days agoLike I said, follow the instructions. That includes removing impurities if you’re working with used cooking oil. If it’s unused then that simplifies things.
Doing it at scale may not be economical because of taxes as well as the fact you either need to buy expensive vegetable oil or collect large amounts of used oil from disparate places. For personal use the taxes are avoided and you may be able to get sufficient used oil from a couple of restaurants or neighbors.
StopTech@lemmy.todayOPto
You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK fuel is heavily taxed, but you can avoid the taxes and reduce waste by making your own diesel without expensive equipment
19·6 days agoOnly if you don’t follow the instructions
StopTech@lemmy.todayOPto
Memes@lemmy.ml•Gotta watch out for those diabetic drivers high on watermelon seeds and chihuahua meat
3·8 days agoOne minute - gonna go drink some drive
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your least favourite thing about the fediverse or lemmy?
3·16 days agoRemoved by mod
The censorship, yeah
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Technology@lemmy.world•"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizensEnglish
7·25 days agoThe “Cancel ChatGPT movement” doesn’t appear to be mentioned in the article, but other outlets say hashtags like #CancelChatGPT are trending on X.

You’d be surprised how many people don’t know that