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by kolinko 942 days ago
In Poland at least, people were doing it - mostly rural in their tractors - but just straight using cooking oil for your trucks&tractors is illegal - too much pollution.

Of course SAF is cleaned up to different standards. Also, SAF is not just cooking oil, they use various kinds of tech.

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Running personal cars on cooking oil was legal in the UK up to a certain number of litres/year. I think it was more an issue of taxation, I'm not aware that it creates additional polution.
I just checked and you're right. In Poland it's also during taxation - the penalties for using that are due to taxation laws, not environmental laws.
In the USA (and other countries) there's something called "red dye" which is dyed diesel for use on off-road farm equipment, much less taxes on it.

If they catch you with it in your truck (by dipping the tank) you get big tax-evasion fines.