Engine grease. (International).The price of gas in Britain (around $5 a gallon) is the highest in Europe. Diesel costs less, but some people have found an even cheaper substitute for diesel-engine cars: a home brew Products that are developed at home by hobbyists. consisting mostly of cheap vegetable oil from the supermarket. Welsh police, alerted by a telltale odor--like french-fry grease--have impounded several veggie-oil-fueled cars and fined the owners. Officials say fuel taxes are due on any substance, even the equivalent of Crisco, used to run a car. The homemade home·made adj. 1. Made or prepared in the home: homemade pie. 2. Made by oneself. 3. Crudely or simply made. Adj. 1. fuel is said to be bad for engine valves and dangerous to make: Its other main ingredient is methanol methanol, methyl alcohol, or wood alcohol, CH3OH, a colorless, flammable liquid that is miscible with water in all proportions. Methanol is a monohydric alcohol. It melts at −97. , a highly flammable flam·ma·ble adj. Easily ignited and capable of burning rapidly; inflammable. [From Latin flamm form of alcohol. |
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