And lo! It has come to pass! A few weeks ago I opined on RedState that one of the consequences of America's failure to use its own ingenuity and resources to lower the price of gas was going to be that fry cooks would eventually find themselves held up at gunpoint -- for their cooking grease.
Well, nothing that bad has happened yet, but the NYT is reporting a big increase in the theft of cooking grease from restaurants and fast-food establishments:
Much to the surprise of Mr. Damianidis and many other people, processed fryer oil, which is called yellow grease, is actually not trash. The grease is traded on the booming commodities market. Its value has increased in recent months to historic highs, driven by the even higher prices of gas and ethanol, making it an ever more popular form of biodiesel to fuel cars and trucks.
How high will gasoline have to go before they stop showing up surreptitiously and just march in and hold the place up for the fryer grease?
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