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Old 06-13-2008, 10:04 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Re: Arkansas: 29,000 gallons of biodiesel per day from chicken fat

Hm, I dunno... this may encourage us Arkansans to eat still more fried chicken, and become even fatter and more obese, thus causing the cars running on chicken fat to get poorer mileage while hauling our bloated carcasses around.

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Re: Arkansas: 29,000 gallons of biodiesel per day from chicken fat

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Wouldn't it be nice if every town converted it's emergency services vehicles to biodiesel and just went around collecting the cooking oil from every restaurant to power the vehicles in exchange for a little tax break? Just a thought.
OMG... you mean the rest of the country follows San Francisco's example??
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Re: Arkansas: 29,000 gallons of biodiesel per day from chicken fat

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Hm, I dunno... this may encourage us Arkansans to eat still more fried chicken, and become even fatter and more obese, thus causing the cars running on chicken fat to get poorer mileage while hauling our bloated carcasses around.

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Then you can take the fat people that died of heart attacks and take their fat out to convert to biodiesel!
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