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Kathy A. Penrose Contributing Journalist AllAmericanHybrid.com Apparently, a Beverly Hills liposuction doctor, Dr. Craig Alan Bitner was fueling his girlfriend’s Ford Lincoln Navigator with the fat that he removed from patients. "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 lipodiesel.com. "Not only do they get to lose their love handles or chubby belly but they get to take part in saving the Earth." His website doesn’t exist anymore. While human fat can technically be used to run a vehicle; unfortunately for Dr. Bitner it is illegal to use human medical waste to fuel vehicles. Bitner is still under investigation by the California State Public Health Department and this issue was only brought to light because he was letting his girlfriend perform surgeries without having a medical license. Some patients are now suing him because he removed too much fat and they now claim that they are disfigured.
There are many types of biofuels. Soybean oil used to be a very popular choice, but since the prices have gone up other types of fats are quickly being integrated. Fat contains triglycerides that are extracted and converted into diesel fuel. The process is called Transesterification. According to The National Biodiesel Board (http://www.biodiesel.org) vehicles can get about the same mileage out of a gallon of grease or a gallon of regular diesel. It only takes one gallon of fat to produce one gallon of diesel. Tyson has been looking into running their trucks on chicken schmaltz. As noted by the National Biodiesel Board, the numbers below show that the popularity of biodiesel has been steadily increasing. The National Biodiesel Board has released the following sales volume estimates for the US:
2006 -- 250 million gallons So did you ever think that all of those extra pounds could get you some free gas? All I can say is while I am all for alternative fuel, I won’t be jumping in on the human fat thing!
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