Oil from eateries powers Humvee - Hawaii News - Staradvertiser.com: "An Army Humvee at Fort Shafter Flats has started tooling around with a faint smell of french fries and tempura coming from its exhaust.
The 8th Theater Sustainment Command vehicle was fueled up Wednesday with a blend of 80 percent petroleum diesel and 20 percent biodiesel from Oahu restaurant cooking oil as part of an ongoing Defense Department test of biofuel blends in tactical vehicles.
The evaluation -- which includes a loader and Humvee at Marine Corps Base Hawaii running on what is known as 'B20' -- also is being conducted at Port Hueneme, Calif; the Marine Corps Air and Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, Calif.; Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.; Moody Air Force Base, Ga.; and the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Ind., officials said.
'One thing we like about the biodiesel is yesterday it cooked your lunch, and today it takes you to lunch,' Lt. Col. Matthew Garner said Thursday at a presentation on the Humvee test.
The Pentagon wants to reduce its dependence on foreign oil, and the biodiesel blend also reduces emissions and utilizes an alternative source of fuel -- used cooking oil -- obtained in Hawaii."
