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Originally Posted by cooker
I agree, but what I am saying it that when there is an oil and energy shortage, there will be a food shortage as well. At that point vegetable oil wil be too valuable to use in deep fryers, and there won't be any to collect.
Exactly-- and this is already happening.

The cost of food oil is already rising as a result of biofuel demand. This will probably cause great suffering in the developing world, where palm oil is a major source of calories.

A New, Global Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories

It's not accurate to project American standards onto the rest of the world. Here, oil is an undesirable source of empty calories. For most people in the world, oil is a major component of the diet. They don't recycle oil, they eat it. We are taking food out of their mouths in order to assuage our guilt about global warming. And now we learn that biofuel will actually make warming worse!
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