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Theft of cooking oil on rise
Times Herald-record Middletown, NY ^
| 6/26/11
| John Sullivan
Posted on 06/26/2011 8:27:27 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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That WAS Michelle 0 lurking behind the local Chinese takeout ;)
To: Impala64ssa
No blood for cooking oil!
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posted on
06/26/2011 8:29:39 PM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(A communist is just a liberal in a hurry)
To: Impala64ssa
Why would anyone want that crap?
It destroys engines by gluing the piston rings solid to the pistons.
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posted on
06/26/2011 8:31:28 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Going 'EGYPT' - 2012!)
To: reagan_fanatic
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Impala64ssa.
Used cooking oil is as good as gold these days, a consequence of rising crude oil prices and demand for biodiesel.
These thefts wouldn't happen if it weren't for the ethanol subsidies, the incandescent light bulb ban, Israeli construction projects, helmet laws, and velvet paintings of Elvis painted by illegal aliens.
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posted on
06/26/2011 8:38:49 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's the Obamacare, stupid! -- Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
To: editor-surveyor
It destroys engines by gluing the piston rings solid to the pistons. Well silly, you have to let vegetable oil age for a while...like say, a million years.
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posted on
06/26/2011 8:43:29 PM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republicans freed the Slaves Month")
To: SunkenCiv
...i’d only add to the list restrictions on drilling our own oil.
snd people stealing cooking oil, and copper tubing, doesn’t reassure me about a possible breakdown in our society soon.
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posted on
06/26/2011 8:55:21 PM PDT
by
Elendur
(the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
To: editor-surveyor
Not if properly filtered and refined to biodiesel.
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posted on
06/26/2011 8:57:46 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
To: Elendur
Empty factories are particularly susceptible to the copper thieves.Thieves broke into one empty factory down in Mobile recently and caused $64,000 in damages by stealing copper cables.
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posted on
06/26/2011 9:01:33 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
To: editor-surveyor
It’s usually not used straight, but chemically reacted with lye and alcohol to form the fuel compound. Using straight grease would be asking for bad varnish problems in the engine.
To: Impala64ssa
Padlocks can solve this seemingly intractable problem. Stuff has value and is unsecured? I’m SHOCKED that it would be stolen!
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posted on
06/26/2011 9:08:16 PM PDT
by
DBrow
To: Impala64ssa
It costs about $5 per gallon to convert used cooking oil into usable auto fuel, hardly seems worthwhile. Saponification of cooking oil also produces glycerin.
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posted on
06/26/2011 9:11:44 PM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: Impala64ssa
All this won't be an issue soon. The food police are actively trying to outlaw cooking in oils for the sake of our health.
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posted on
06/26/2011 9:18:09 PM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Even the best biodiesel fails badly.
Last fall the school buses in Bend, Oregon all stalled with a load of passengers aboard, as the fuel slowly gelled in the fuel lines after they left the heated garage.
It took all the rest of the day to get the kids home, because they had zero buses with real diesel fuel in their tanks.
Politically correct is wonderful, isn’t it!
To: Huskrrrr
Saponification of cooking oil also produces glycerin. It's not just from soap making anymore.
To: Huskrrrr
Bbbbut it’s for the children...
To: editor-surveyor; Impala64ssa
Why would anyone want that crap? It destroys engines by gluing the piston rings solid to the pistons.
Doesn't oil polymerize under the right conditions?
To: editor-surveyor
Because you can make biodiesel out of it — that’s regular old diesel fuel, by the way, exactly what you get at the pump — like we do for a diesel Mercedes.
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posted on
06/26/2011 9:32:33 PM PDT
by
Blue Ink
To: Blue Ink
No, you need to get educated.
To: Lazlo in PA
My retirement grease!
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posted on
06/26/2011 9:40:26 PM PDT
by
boop
("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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