Last weekend, San Francisco held a cooking oil drive, with donations destined to end up helping to power the city's various biofuel vehicles. The San Francisco Chronicle noted that a previous drive over Thanksgiving had generated over two tons of used cooking oil.
"It'd be a shame to send this stuff to landfill. We knew there's a better way," resident Ray Lucas told the newspaper.
On the other side of the country, CFNews13.com of central Florida reports that owner of the Veggie Oil Man company is collecting used oils to be turned into biofuels for construction vehicles - and he's donating 30 cents from every gallon collected to help benefit a local women's health center.
These donations don't just help the environment; they're also helpful for taxpayers. For example, the Chronicle noted that San Francisco spends about $3.5 million each year repairing pipes damaged from people pouring old cooking oil down the drain.
"It's hard as a rock. It's sort of like what happens with grease in your arteries," Tyrone Jue of the city's Public Utilities Commission told the Chronicle.
