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Grease Is the Way We Are Stealin'

Thieves targeting used cooking oil

Posted at 3:01 PM on 21 May 2008

Biodiesel.
Leftover cooking grease is a hot commodity these days, and restaurants across the country are reporting being hit by slippery-fingered thieves. Biodiesel producers must legally register with the U.S. EPA, but DIY biofuelers are helping themselves to waste cooking oil as its value skyrockets along with the price of diesel. David Levenson, owner of a grease-hauling business in San Francisco, has contracts with local restaurants, but says his drivers too often find empty barrels on their cooking-oil runs. Other grease haulers say oil thievery has lost them thousands of dollars. Says Levenson, "It's like a war zone going on right now over grease." We can just hear the thieves now: "I stole grease under sniper fire!"

source:  Associated Press

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Slow news day?

Is this really a problem?  I can see that some time in the future this could actually become serious.  But so far it's happened, what, a few times somewhere in California and it's news?

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act!" -- George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
Good News

Waste is the only source for biofuel that's not ecologically harmful.  It's great news that it's in so much demand.

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