Re: Canadian doctors coming to the US

From: Herman Rubin (hrubin_at_odds.stat.purdue.edu)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: 28 Aug 2004 20:12:37 -0500

In article <j9e1j0t2fhp3s5c6dmfu98b3q2cfatmtks@4ax.com>,
Jack Hamilton <jfh@acm.org> wrote:
>"Lictor" <ghostmlNOSPAM-REMOVE@online.fr> wrote:

>>Here, buses burn less fuel per passenger than cars, and they don't run on
>>petroleum oil anymore. An increasing number of buses run on electricity now,
>>and most of the rest run on colza oil and the like.

>I think that's what we call rapeseed oil here. Is this used in modified
>diesel engines?

It is, as are soy oil and others. The modification is
minor, if at all; Diesel himself used vegetable oil. 

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