Officials want residents' cooking oil for fuel
by Megan Nichols
Staff Writer
Oct 02, 2009 | 1149 views |  0 comments | 14 14 recommendations | email to a friend | print
Rodney Owens, assistant general manager for Anniston Water Works, shows off a container for old cooking oil. The county now has a program for recycling the oil into bio-diesel fuel. Photo: Trent Penny/The Anniston Star
Rodney Owens, assistant general manager for Anniston Water Works, shows off a container for old cooking oil. The county now has a program for recycling the oil into bio-diesel fuel. Photo: Trent Penny/The Anniston Star
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Let's hope county road crews like French fries. They'd better, because that unmistakable greasy aroma has replaced diesel fumes coming from some Calhoun County equipment. The county Highway Department is making its own biodiesel fuel and it's doing it with used cooking oil.

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