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From Frying Pan to the Engine: McDonald’s Franchisee Powers His Cars with French Fry Grease

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Attention drivers, who fuel their vehicles with gasoline! Here is another alternative to encourage you with. The French fry grease! That is what Robert Tomey feeds his Volkswagen Beetle with.

It’s not the oil ready to be cooked in, but the used vegetable oil drained from his fryers! Isn’t it a great idea for one in the world of soaring demand for fuel and escalating prices?
The owner of four McDonald’s – in Amory, Aberdeen, Houston and Vernon, Ala. – recently converted his Volkswagen and the company’s Ford pickup truck to run on this used vegetable oil.

Via: MSNBC

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