"Frying Squad" swoops on UK drivers in fuel scam
Date: 10-Oct-02
Country: UK
Three Welsh motorists have already been caught and fined for using waste oil from restaurants selling Britain's favourite deep-fried dish, the Times newspaper reported on 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.
Cooking oil mixed with methanol costs about 32 pence a litre, compared with 73 pence for a litre of diesel bought from a petrol station, the Times reported.