"A few years ago, drums of used french fry grease were of interest only to a small network of biofuel brewers, who would use the slimy oil to power their souped-up antique Mercedes.
Now restaurants all over the United States are reporting thefts of old cooking oil worth thousands of dollars by rustlers who are refining it into biofuel in backyard stills.
'It's like a war zone,' said David Levenson, who owns a grease hauling business in San Francisco's Mission District. 'More and more people are stealing grease because it lets them stay away from the pump, but its hurting our bottom line.'
In Kansas, Healy Biodiesel reports thousands of dollars in losses from used cooking-oil heists from restaurants.
Who would have thought that grease from french fries would be worth thousands and that car owners would be driving up to restaurants and stealing barrels of the stuff and converting it into fuel. I think that we should all look more closely at the waste around us and see if there might be some value to it.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0506/p01s03-usgn.html
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