While some might say we've seen "Peak Waste Vegetable Oil", there is still plenty of oil out there to be had. Sure, the days are gone where individuals randomly poach a restaurant's waste oil by offering free collection, but when folks can offer 10 cents a gallon to secure a restaurant into a contract, then it might as well be free.
I am by no means a proponent of paying for Waste Vegetable Oil, but I am saying that it's available for the individual if you want it(and how could you not want fuel independence and your exhaust smelling like french fries). The oil is around. Billions of gallons a year are being dumped into containers behind restaurants every year. The difference now is that oil is more of a commodity. It's fetching $2.50+ for unfiltered yellow grease. Companies, entrepreneurs, and restaurant owners know it now has value and that has changed the game.
Are we to curdle up and wallow in hydrogenated fat about this development, casting out our fine tuned proce
