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Subject: San Francisco brakes fedral laws and some one steals biofuel feed stock Author: larry [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 16:24:42 05/20/08 Tue its fedral law you can not run emergency vehicles with biodiesel. Thieves swipe used cooking oil to brew biodiesel SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - 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, Calif. to Sedgwick, Kan. are reporting thefts of old cooking oil worth thousands of dollars by rustlers who are refining it into barrels of biofuel in backyard stills. "It's like a war zone going on right now over grease," said David Levenson, who owns a grease hauling business in San Francisco's Mission District. "We're seeing more and more people stealing grease because it lets them stay away from the pump, but it's hurting our bottom line." Levenson, who converted the engine in his '83 Mercedes to run on straight canola oil, has built up contracts to collect the liquid leftovers from 400 restaurants in the last two years. San Francisco started its program, SFGreaseCycle, to cut down on the millions it spends each year to dislodge fats, oils and grease clogging the sewers, Ving said. The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission eventually hopes to power its fleet of buses, fire trucks and emergency vehicles with biodiesel made from local restaurants' old oil, she said http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90PGTQO0&show_article=1 [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]