Recycled Vegetable Oil Powers Vans and Cars

“When Jared Fisher needs fuel for his vans, he doesn’t head for the gas station. Instead, he goes to restaurants to collect used vegetable oil. He pours that vegetable oil into his vans’ fuel tanks.”

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