Reduce your CARbon Buttprint - burn yourself!

[Oppenheimer]

I was reading this article earlier and recalled a discovery channel programme about biodiesel and two guys who go around collecting the discarded animal fats from restaurants in New York. Apart from the obvious mine of double entendres that I always like to see in a topic, I smiled at the irony of obesity, environmentalism and burning carbon based fuels intersecting so nicely....

Did you know, for example, about the US poultry firms turning waste chicken gunge into biodiesel to fuel trucks? I imagine they fly along. There are also US plants gleefully mixing beef and pig tallow with soyabean oil to create biodiesel. It may sound gross, but I bet it smells like barbecue.

One chap who didn’t was a Californian cosmetic surgeon who got into trouble last year after claiming to have turned the lard he’d sucked out of his patients during liposuction into biodiesel. Dr Craig Bittner said he used it to power his Ford SUV and his girlfriend’s Lincoln Navigator and that it was done with patients’ consent.

“Not only do they get to lose their love handles or chubby belly, but they get to take part in saving the Earth,” he wrote on his lipodiesel.com website before it went offline.

So let's turn our problem of obesity into a silver lining or some such!

Rest of the article here
Ecowarriors could live off the fat of their fellow man

[Oppenheimer]

Is Mary Harney losing weight? I saw her in an interview on telly yesterday and she seems to be - fair play to her.

[Oppenheimer]

Its happening......
Bio-power: 'Eco bus' sets off on fat-finding trip.

Watch your ass!

[Christine Murray]

gawd! nary a bit of a rainbow on the bus; but greenies always were a bunch of humourless twats. gormley will be wanting green gardai and 'earth day' patrols next.