This oil-disposal tip was in Popular Science magazine in 1963

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[–]Musky[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Interesting. I've heard some older diesel engines can run on damned near anything like that.

[–]twolanterns 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

way back there were things called "Hit and Miss engines" that were single cylinder internal combustion with a flywheel that were used (in rural areas) to do things like operate small machinery and pumping water and generate electricity. They could operate on a very wide range of substances (most thinner fuels as they had rather simple carburetion )

[–]ID10T 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I always thought it would be cool to have an electric car with a turbine generator. Turbines can run on pretty much anything flammable. Not super efficient, but in a post apocalyptic world you could scavenge anything for fuel.