Posted on 03/17/2012 12:29:54 AM PDT by thecodont
Slick-fingered Bay Area thieves are stealing restaurants' used kitchen grease, a product that six years ago was so worthless that some restaurant owners would illegally dump it down the drain instead of paying for proper disposal.
The leftover cooking oil, yellow grease, is the easiest material to turn into biodiesel. And as the alternative fuel's popularity has increased, so has its selling price, making it a target for thieves willing to go through the trouble of pumping or siphoning the grease out of storage barrels.
"It's liquid gold," said Daniel Rugg, director of engineering at the Four Seasons hotel in East Palo Alto, where security guards frequently chase away would-be grease thieves.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/15/BA051NFA8F.DTL#ixzz1pMBYFUuU
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then Tide detergent,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2859093/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2858466/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2858121/posts
and now this?
They're making Napalm!
Pond scum President needs this stuff.
Oh man, I did not know Michelle was packing liquid gold... tsk tsk tsk
Not Willy’s retirement grease!!!!
Isn’t this the same old story we have been reading for about 15 years, or almost that long?
Is this another example of the rotten economy that Obama has burdened us with? People don’t steal things like this unless things are messed up.
Nothing new. Country folks been using used cooking oil for a long time for diesel fuel. Does cause a bit of problem though when fuel lines get plugged due to poor/improper filtering. (French fries and onion rings get stuck) but the exhaust fumes do smell good though.......
Nothing new. Country folks been using used cooking oil for a long time for diesel fuel. Does cause a bit of problem though when fuel lines get plugged due to poor/improper filtering. (French fries and onion rings get stuck) but the exhaust fumes do smell good though.......
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Some 440 VAC electric fencing will take care of these bottom feeders of society but some liberal freaken lawyer will threaten to sue if someone who has no business being someplace gets hurt. We are always put in a position of being hamstrung by criminals and lawyers.
I want some cleansing of the gene pool.
If this country had half the sense it used to have, this "stealing" would be unnecessary, as it would have been folded into the free market, like other successful recycling and scavenging.
We cook our bacon in the microwave. But we do save the grease for fried eggs, mixed with some coconut oil, yea coconut oil, it makes great fried eggs.
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