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April 4, 2008
Las Vegas Biofueler Arrested in Greasy Scheme
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
With gas prices going through the roof, it makes sense that you’d have to start worrying about getting your gas siphoned by thieves. But it looks like fast food restaurants are going to start finding their tanks empty as well. David Richardson, an employee of Restaurant Oils of America, was caught pumping out the storage tank of a Burger King with which his company didn’t have an account. His 5000-gallon tanker truck was half full of cooking oil, so it’s unclear how many other unauthorized siphonings he did. He then transported the oil to a recycling center in California that pays more per gallon than recyclers in Nevada. Restaurant owners normally have to pay to have their old grease hauled away, so it’s the company Richardson works for that’s actually taking the hit here.
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Highspeedhijinks
Apr 4, 2008 at 7:35 pm
When money is invovled and the economy is tight these are the types of things your going to see.
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Right now the price of a junk catalytic converter is through the roof. Scrap yards are paying in upwards of 200 dollars PER CAT for the paladium and titanium thats in cat material. This acctually caused a rash of cat converter thefts here in Albany NY. People were climbing under parked cars and cutting out the cats then turning around and selling them to the scrap yards.
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Here at the VW dealer that I work for were having a terrible time beating back the hoard of “scrappers” begging to get our used converters. So if your local garge says you need a Converter make them prove it to you. Have them give you a print out of the codes it has telling you that it needs a Converter. Some shady garages are scamming there own customers to get in on the deal as well.