Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/French fry car

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. Article speedy deleted as vandalism. Joyous 23:49, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

French fry car
From the people who brought you Pond muck car. Uncle G 03:54, 2005 Feb 11 (UTC)
 * Comment: Running your diesel car on vegetable oil can get you in trouble with the tax authorities. Kappa 04:50, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Really? Where? Our article Biodiesel suggests that in the U.S. at least it's a way to get tax credits. If this is inaccurate, could you correct that article? --FOo 18:03, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * In some parts of England it's illegal due to the alleged bad food smell. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 19:34, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Nothing to do with the smell, simply a requirement to pay fuel duty. Rich Farmbrough 19:18, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: As I've said elsewhere, this is not biodiesel as that article defines it. Vote elsewhere. Andrewa 19:24, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, expand. This type of car does exist, running on cooking grease and oil . Megan1967 04:55, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * If it's kept, doesn't it need a different title? Maybe not, 78 google hits for "French fry car" Kappa 06:03, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Agreed, the title needs to be changed, but perhaps it would be better to merge it as a heading under Waste vegetable oil. Megan1967 00:57, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Definitely shouldn't be under this title, as it isn't potato matter that powers the car, it is the vegetable oil. In the UK, it's legal as long as you pay the duty. The motorist must get permission from customs and excise officers before they start using vegetable oil and keep an accurate record of the amount used. Average Earthman 09:57, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup. My first reaction was that surely this was all covered already under biodiesel, but investigation suggests that this is a slightly different emerging technology that we don't yet cover by any other name. Discuss the name on the talk page. Andrewa 11:26, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to straight vegetable oil, and cleanup (change of vote). The final result is the same. Both the SVO and biodiesel articles need serious work, as is demonstrated by the fact that several people voting here still seem under the misapprehension that they are the same thing. Andrewa 19:24, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * It isn't anything new, it's vegetable oil. They just use it to fry french fries first. Running a diesel engine on vegetable oil isn't new at all. See Waste vegetable oil. Actually, merge to Waste vegetable oil and delete. Average Earthman 12:43, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with anything more sensibly titled.--Wetman 11:31, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 13:43, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Nothing here that isn't already at biodiesel, it appears, and the article is not terribly encyclopedic: "In the future, french fry chefs might start owning cars like that; and it might change the way they think about working at a restaurant." WTF? delete or redirect without merge. -R. fiend 19:06, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Biodiesel, a well-written article that Taxman is working up to feature status, and discusses the use of waste vegetable oil as fuel. - Satori 20:12, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Biodiesel a more appropriate article. There's no information here really worth preserving, but the "French fry car" has actually received a decent amount of press coverage under that name (even if, as Average Earthman points out, it's not the most accurate name.) -- Antaeus Feldspar 20:34, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect either to "biodiesel" or "waste vegetable oil." It's true that running a diesel on vegetable oil gives off a telltale odor of cooking.  It's how the cops in the UK nailed drivers who attempted to skirt the tax on diesel fuel.  In fact, when Rudolf Diesel demonstrated his engine for the first time in public, it was running on vegetable oil as a way of showing that it could run on practically any fuel. - Lucky 6.9 00:18, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to biodiesel. Rossami (talk) 23:34, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: If it were to be a redirect, surely it should be to straight vegetable oil, which is where this technology is currently discussed. The vehicles in question do not use transesterised fuel as described in the biodiesel article. No change of vote. Andrewa 09:49, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to straight vegetable oil. Johntex 18:30, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Deleted as vandalism, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress/Long_term_alerts#Mr._Suffix_.28Neologisms.29]. Mikkalai 05:01, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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