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News from the War and Peace 2008 show
CHEAP AS CHIPS – MARK’S WAR AND PEACE COST SAVER
MILITARY vehicle enthusiast
Mark Rimmer decided he wasn’t going to let inflated fuel prices keep him away
from the War and Peace Show in Kent this year.
Mark lives in the Bordeaux
region of France, and it could have cost him more than £500 in diesel to drive
his American Reo M35 two-and-a-half-ton six-by-six army truck to Beltring for
the Show.
So to cut costs he filled it
up with old cooking oil collected from restaurants near his home.
“Anything to save a few
pennies,” he said. “The vehicle has a multi-fuel engine. It can use petrol,
paraffin, diesel – or my favourite cooking oil.
“The restaurants would
normally have to pay someone to take their old oil away and dispose of it. I
take it away for nothing, filter out the lumps in my barn, add some diesel to
thin it down a bit, and we’re away.”
Mark says the truck performs
just as well on cooking oil as it does on diesel. There is an added bonus that
emissions are cleaner.
Unfortunately he did not have
enough cooking oil fuel to power him home again, so he was forced to resort to
good old diesel.
For further information
contact Peter Cook on 01795 536915 or 07796 172680.
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