Huge new source for renewable fuel found in the USA!!!

[zzyzzx]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,473078,00.html

pun intended.

California Surgeon Used Human Fat to Power Car

A former Beverly Hills, Calif. liposuction doctor claimed to have the environment's best interests at heart when he began fueling his and his girlfriend's SUVs with human fat sucked out of his patients.

Unfortunately the practice was illegal, according to California state health officials.

An investigation by the California public health department revealed that Craig Alan Bittner created "lipodiesel" from his patients' fat and used it to power his Ford SUV and his girlfriend's Lincoln Navigator, Forbes.com reported this week.

"The vast majority of my patients request that I use their fat for fuel — and I have more fat than I can use," Bittner wrote on his now defunct Web site. "Not only do they get to lose their love handles or chubby belly but they get to take part in saving the Earth."

California law forbids the use of human medical waste to power vehicles.

Bittner's practice, Beverly Hills Liposculpture, closed in November.

Several former patients have filed lawsuits against the doctor, claiming he allowed his unlicensed girlfriend and an assistant to perform procedures, causing mistakes that left the patients disfigured, attorney Andrew Besser, who represents three of the former patients, told Forbes.com.

Obligatory fat pic:

[M Bruner]

Guess they took a little too much fat when gas prices hit $4.00/gallon.

[HmNtr]

Ya know, strange as this sounds, this is the same thing that happened in an episode of Boston Legal, season 3, disc 4, second episode...don't ask me why I remember this stuff, I just do...bugger me if I can remember the name of the stupid episode though...

Anyways, Denny Crane was the president and majority stock holder in this company that collected medical waste (fat from liposuction) and then sent it to Norway to be processed into lipo-diesel, but got caught by the assistant D.A. and was prosecuted and won his case...

Guess that just goes to show -- life imitates art imitates life etc. etc. etc...

[Soopafresh]

Fight Club!

[Evil Monkey]

I used to use that picture of the four fat chicks to tag the walls in Counter Strike Source.