As fuel prices soar, rustlers pilfer barrels of used cooking oil to make biodiesel - IHT
A few years ago, drums of used french fry grease were only of interest to a small network of underground biofuel brewers, who would use the slimy oil to power their souped-up antique Mercedes.
Now, restaurants from Berkeley, California, to Sedgwick, Kansas are reporting thefts of old cooking oil worth thousands of dollars by rustlers who are refining it into barrels of biofuel in backyard stills.
Another unintended consequence of the alternative fuels mania and oil pushing $130 a barrel.
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