Now this is what I have been talking about:

Faced with soaring prices at the petrol pumps, ecologically-minded Britons are turning to fish and chips to run their cars — transforming the leftover frying oil into “green” fuel.

Deep in the southern English countryside, an environmental group spent last weekend teaching 12 men how to transform the abundant vegetable oil from fish and chip shops, but also pubs and restaurants, into biodiesel.

There is really no need to worry about food crop disruption if people would instead focus on recycling their waste oils. Even if just 10% of current consumption is replaced with oil that would otherwise be used for tallow or sent to landfill, there would be a significant impact to the market (lower emissions from bio-diesel blends and reduced demand for petroleum).

In an added incentive, the government does not tax the production of biodiesel, providing it does not exceed 2,500 litres per person a year.

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“The risks are, you use some dangerous chemicals, you also use electricity so you could have potentially dangerous scenarios but you just have to take care.

“It’s not rocket science, it’s like cookery but on a big scale.”

Great article.