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Fuel In Your Car | 10.10.2002 20:21

as Frying Squad Swoops On Drivers in alternative oil




LONDON (Reuters) - A Welsh police team dubbed "the Frying Squad" has been formed to sniff out motorists who fuel their cars with cooking oil from fish and chip shops in a bid to avoid paying high government fuel taxes.

Three Welsh motorists have already been caught and fined for using waste oil from restaurants selling Britain's favorite deep-fried dish, the Times newspaper reported Wednesday.

"I have halved my motoring costs since I started running my Subaru on cooking oil," the paper quoted one of those stopped as saying.

"The car runs just as well and even smells a lot better than diesel."

The drivers were fined 500 pounds ($780) and warned that persistent offenders may face up to seven years in jail.

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Threat to the world order

11.10.2002 08:25

That will teach them to use a renewable energy source, how dare they avoid subsidising the global multinational oil companys, don't they know that many a third world dictatorship is dependant on those finances to support their regime.The police in wales obviously have to much time on their hands.

Accidental anarchist

mass oil usage

11.10.2002 10:22

I would never use a cheap renewable source of fuel and i hope no-one else ever will. Imagine if we all strted using it? the police would have such a hard time trying to catch us. Poor police! Oh and what about the barons who are just trying to put food in the mouths of their kids? How would they cope with the loss of income? What about bush? He would have attacked all those oil producing countries for what? Come on support the destruction of the people and our planet.....use expensive, polluting fuel and keep our leaders in power and pennies.

anna