Re: <All> Mo' Gas prices

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

> FWIW: I read an article in this morning's Rocky Mountain News
> describing how a process has been developed so that used cooking
> oil can be refined into a substitute for high grade diesel fuel.
> They were looking into using it to power buses at Yellowstone
>  but are concerned that it would attract bears because
> the exhaust smells like fried chicken.  And no, I am not making
> this up.  The story came off the Scripps Howard News Service.

No, _you_ aren't making it up - it was made up by someone else a long
time ago.  See alt.urban.myths for the story.

And have you ever compared the USA's use of gasoline with the
replacement rate of cooking oil in burger bars?

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