Backyard Refiners Turning Grease Into Fuel

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MAGNA -- Americans store their cars, tools, even fertilizer in garages. But a refinery?

In his two-car garage, Kevin Newman is pouring used French-fry oil from local restaurants into a pair of General Electric household water heaters -- his version of the giant petroleum cracking towers found at an oil-company refinery. He deftly moves hoses around, scrubs the impurities from the oil, performs chemical tests, and voila, a week later, he is filling up his pickup truck with biodiesel. He figures his home refinery saves him and his business, which has six trucks, about $1.75 a gallon.

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Backyard Refiners Turning Grease Into Fuel

"If you can bake a cake, you can make biodiesel," says Newman.

With diesel at $3 a gallon, 50 cents more than last year, ingenious Americans like Newman are turning their garages and basements into mini-refine...

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