Upper Nazareth Township police are looking for a used cooking oil thief, according to a Facebook post.
At 12:22 a.m. Tuesday an officer on patrol in the township interrupted a man trying to pump the recyclable product from a vat behind at Sicily’s restaurant at 18 East Lawn Road (Route 191), police said.
The man, wearing blue jeans, a black jacket and a white or gray hoodie, ran off, police said.
He left behind a white 2001 GMC Savanna van with a Pennsylvania license plate, police said. Inside there were two large plastic tanks and a gas-powered pump with a green hose attached, police said. The lock had been cut on the vat and used cooking oil was being pumped from it into the tanks, police said.
“It is believed that this individual has been involved in similar activity in the area,” police said.
The registered owner of the van told an officer that he had sold it, police said.
If you have any information on this case, you are asked to call police at 610-759-7448.
But the question remains, why would someone want to steal this waste product?
A CBS News report from 2019 indicates such thefts are a $75 million a year business, according to a 2017 figure.
A law that was expanded in 2007 requires “renewable sources” be added to an “an ever-increasing amount” of fuel for transportation in order to cut gases that cause global warming, the report said. While the additive is often ethanol, used cooking oil can be converted into biodiesel, the report said. Such reuse of cooking oil jumped 13 percent in 2018 to 1.67 billion pounds, the report said. Cooking oil is used in about 12 percent of the biodiesel that’s created, the report said.
A Virginia man told authorities he was getting 25 cents per gallon for stolen cooking oil and often made $300 to $400 per trip, according to a Washington Post report cited by CBS News.
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