U-brew biofuel

Imagine powering your car on a clean-burning fuel that costs about 35 cents a litre. Imagine exhaust that smells like buttered toast.

Imagine that you can make it yourself — no more complicated, really, than mixing up a batch of cupcakes.

With a few simple ingredients, a pair of gloves, a processor and a knack for simple chemistry, you can make your own green fuel.

In dozens of garages and workshops across Metro Vancouver, a subculture of home brewers driven by rising gas prices is recycling waste vegetable oil into clean-burning biodiesel. These enterprising souls, “homebrewers” with green ideas, are making their own fuel from the deep-fry oil local restaurants dispose of every week.

Vancouver Sun