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"It takes grit to be a greaser: Stalwarts must recruit restaurants as back-alley sources, filter the smelly liquid in the garage or backyard, and modify a vehicle with a diesel engine to burn it. Drawbacks include finding dead raccoons in restaurant grease vats.
Now greasers have another worry: corporate competition. Vegetable oil is a main ingredient of biodiesel, and demand for used oil has soared along with government subsidies and mandates for the alternative fuel. Over the past six months, the market price for grease has jumped some 70%, to about $3 a gallon.
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Although the law sets a much lower annual fee for greasers who keep a minimal amount of the goop on hand, many greasers say it's still too restrictive.
"If I go to Costco, I can buy a pallet of vegetable oil," notes Mr. Sobalvarro, one of the Colorado greasers in on the legal fight. "Explain to me why it is that it's considered a hazardous material if it touches a chicken wing.""
Can't have people getting independent of big business can we.
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