- LONDON (Reuters) - A Welsh
police team dubbed "the Frying Squad" has been formed to sniff
out motorists who fuel their cars with cooking oil from fish and chip shops
in a bid to avoid paying high government fuel taxes.
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- Three Welsh motorists have already been caught and fined
for using waste oil from restaurants selling Britain's favorite deep-fried
dish, the Times newspaper reported Wednesday.
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- "I have halved my motoring costs since I started
running my Subaru on cooking oil," the paper quoted one of those stopped
as saying.
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- "The car runs just as well and even smells a lot
better than diesel."
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- The drivers were fined 500 pounds ($780) and warned that
persistent offenders may face up to seven years in jail.
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