Cooking oil is purified fat of plant or animal origin, which is liquid at room temperature.Some of the many different kinds of edible vegetable oils include: olive oil, palm oil, soybean oil, canola oil, pumpkin seed oil, corn oil, sunflower oil, safflower oil, peanut oil, grape seed oil, sesame oil, argan oil and rice bran oil. Many other kinds of vegetable oils are also used for cooking.The generic term "vegetable oil" when used to label a cooking oil product refers to a blend of a variety of oils often based on palm, corn, soybean or sunflower oils.Oil can be flavoured by immersing aromatic food stuffs such as fresh herbs, peppers and so forth in the oil for an extended period of time. However, care must be taken when using garlic and onions to prevent the growth of Clostridium botulinum (the bacteria that produces toxins that can lead to botulism) in this medium.

"The car now has two fuel tanks - one for diesel, which you need to start and warm up the car, and the other tank contains the used cooking oil. I installed a filter for the vegetable oil and two valves. One valve cuts the diesel fuel off and the other turns the oil on. The whole job took a day and a half."

Yes, you really can make biodisesel from used cooking oil in your garage for less than a buck a gallon.....

Alas, the ebb and flow of change towards renewable and so-called “green” biofuels has taken black marks. Globally, foodstuff prices increased 37% last year (over the 14% increase in 2006).… A stampede of cooking oil buyers, in China, left three people dead and thirty-one injured.

KUANTAN, Malaysia: Rising prices for cooking oil in India are forcing residents of Mumbai to ration every drop. Bakeries in the United States are fretting over higher shortening costs. And here in Malaysia, brand-new factories built to convert vegetable oil into diesel for trucks sit idle, their owners unable to afford the raw material.

Soaring cooking oil price in world market will also affect other food price in a chain reaction. Oil is used in animal feed for fowls, boars, fish and shrimps. Huge demand for biofuels had created tension not only between human and vehicles ....