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From commenter Mike Sharpe:
Bio-diesal can actually be had for about .40 cents per gallon if you make it yourself. Mass production of bio-diesel should drive the price lower than that (in a perfect world). My father-in-law has a small trucking business and fuels his entire fleet with homemade bio-diesel.
...Bio-fuels are commercially viable, if people and the industry want them to be. The bio-fuel/bio-diesel technology isn't new. Again the issue is making the gov't change it's focus on how the US is going to power the nation and the car's on the road. For instance, I have 1977 Toyota Landcruiser FJ40, which was gas powered from the factory. In top formit got about 15 MPG, on average. Not great. In 2001, I found out about an inventer named Somender Singh, from India. Singh made a simple modification to the cylinder head of gasoline engines that allowed for 20% greater mpg, an 18% gain in HP and higher compression, and more complete burning of fuel. I made this mod. to my Landcruiser, motorcyle and car. I was amazed! It worked just as Singh said it would. The mods cost me all of $200, in time and money for all 3 vehicles. When gas prices went above $2.70 last year I decided to convert my FJ40 to diesel and run the bio-diesel my father-in-law makes. The engine and accesories to do the conversion cost about $2000. I've already recouped the cost of the conversion in just 6 months. It costs me about $.40-$.50 a gallon to run my Toyota.
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#2Hi David,
You might email Mike Sharpe, the commenter who posted this info. You can find an email address for him by clicking his name in his original post, located here.
I want to do the same thing to my FJ40 but how much did it cost you to convert it to diesel and what diesel engine did you drop into it and how easy was that? Thanks for your help.