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Control Your Petrol

from Fuel For Thought EP by Süp127 & DJ Phyzk

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Learn how to make BioDiesel at home, step-by-step.

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D-d-d-did you know, ya d-ya-d-ya-didn’t need to go (repeat x4)

Did ya know, ya didn’t need to go
To the gas station no mo’?
Yo fa’sho, you can make your own
Control your petrol, and never leave your home
All you need is: some oil of vegetable, a base to neutralize, a place authorized, a 50-gallon drum,
And to be able to follow this poem
Plus, it’s biodegradable, so don’t worry if you swallow some
I’ve made a lot of dumb decisions before
But I’ve never supported a petroleum war
And I’ll be damned if I’ma afford
The rising price of gas cause some guy’s sitting on his ass bored
So I’m searching for a store
Where the merchant leaves used vegetable oil outside the back door
But before I abduct the score
I gotta test the product to see how pure
It’s a process called tetrification
We add a gram of lye to a liter of water
Mix the concentration
Then in a separate containment
You need these ingredients to check the pH gradient:
A milliliter of the soon-to-be biofuel,
10 milliliters alcohol isopropyl,
2 to 3 drops of red phenol, and that’s all
Slowly add the concentration, measuring how much with a tool
Then when it turns to a lasting pink
Multiply the lye-water mixture to see how much you’ll need
Now, for every milliliter of concentration used,
That’s an extra gram of lye (or potassium hydroxide)
Needed to add to the vegetable oil to create the biofuel
Yeah, so depending on how much of lye and water you mixed in you can determine the quality of the veggie oil. 3 milliliters is good, anything 5 and over is crap, yeayeayea, but all right- back to the rap
(Tetrification complete)

Step 2: So now that you know that the goods is good
It’s time to mix the fuel like a good kid would
I mean that, you should try this at home
You won’t get blown, even if your accident prone
As long as you don’t, throw your spliff in the barrel
You could smoke in the room, there’s no fumes, no whiff to impair you
Plus you should care to, share fresh air through
Supporting cleaner-burning, longer-lasting, learning, organizing, forming teams for turning masses of organic farmers and commuting consumers into producers, users, and distributors of biodiesel gasoline
If it seems like too much hassling
Then just urgently rush your clergymen and such
Demanding the installation of your own local biopump
Or at least rashly asking
But for those listening
This next step needs vegetable oil, methanol, lye, leaving you with glycerine
And the biodiesel, obviously, then
Heat the oil with a water heater, when
It gets to 130 degrees Fahrenheit
That’s a fair enough height of heat for the pair to combine
That is, the fatty acid neutralizer
Made of methanol equal to 22% of the oil’s volume overall, plus
The available catalyzer
As I mentioned earlier, this could be sodium or potassium hydroxide
Whichever you prefer to stir
And don’t look at me cross-eyed
That’s just the lye, in other terms, so ya’ heard, word
If you choose to use lye, calculate 4 grams for each liter of oil plus whatever amount the tetrification derived
If you choose potassium hydroxide, it’s 5.6 per liter, plus whatever step one multiplied

So, add it all together, that is
The alcohol and the catalyst
But don’t let it settle, gotta mix, mix, mix
But gentle, for as long as it takes
For the lye to disappear, disassemble, dis-isintegrate
This creates, sodium methoxide
And the lye is toxic, so watch your eyes
Cover your hands with gloves
Make sure you don’t mix it in plastic, use a glass jug
Then, back to the water heater, make sure it’s insulated
Add the methoxide and the oil – you can’t keep ‘em separated
Then circulate it, in some way, using a pump or hose so as it to agitate it
Then letting that mix for one to two hours
Turn it off, let it settle, and the biodiesel is ours
This process is called transesterification
Because it makes methyl esters, y’know what I’m sayin’?
The next thing you need to do after you’ve
Let it settle for about a day and a half is: be sure to remove
The glycerol, which is at the bottom so ya’all
Better have attached a faucet or spigot or two to your drum or you’re screwed
Be sure to save it, and make soap or somethin’
Cause it’s actually more valuable than the fuel we made for combustin’
Now the last process worth discussin’
Is washing the biodiesel – it’s easier than the dishes
Check it, use the aquarium aerator from the tank for your fishes
Swish in water, change it and drain it
Until the refuse water is no longer tainted
With white, soapy particles
Then run it through a simple filter, and congratulations you’ve made fuel suitable for automobiles
(Transesterification complete]

Yeah, of course, this only works with a diesel engine
Notice, no modification was mentioned
I repeat, this process requires no conversion
Yea and so fill up and you’ll be cruisin’
Although, if you alter your car it will run on straight vegetable oil (except when startin’)
Another factor for your consumer awareness
If you decide to buy biodiesel rather than prepare it
Be sure to fill up on B100, which is from recycled byproducts which otherwise go to nothin’
B20 is plenty better than benzene, but sown from soybeans which may be genetically-modified, depending on yet another industry
So, support local, organic farming
Be vegetarian
I hope this was as fun for you, as it was for me

You ain’t heard nothing yet. Wait until we get into ethanol. Yo, that’s right. Shout out to all Santa Cruz biofuels, you know what I’m sayin’? This is Sup127 with the speak, and my man Phyzk on the beat. That’s right. You know what I’m sayin’. Why you still listenin’? Get out, go start a business or somethin’. I’m sayin’, a co-op. We could be doin’ this. Take it back, grow your own crop. That’s right.

All we need is a plant

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from Fuel For Thought EP, track released May 20, 2005

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Süp127 Santa Cruz, California

Süp127 is an independent hip hop artist- a conscious rapper originating from the Bay Area, inspired by artists like KRS-ONE, Digable Planets, Living Legends, The Coup, & Zion-I. Always keeping a positive message in the lyrics, over an eclectic variety of producer's beats, with fresh delivery and vocal quality. Check his music out! ... more

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