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How Biofuel Technology Turned Restaurant Grease Into Gold

As its value has risen, a growing class of criminals are focusing on stealing and selling used cooking oil.
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The Bloomberg years have been kind to property markets and tough on fast food.

What a peculiar coda for this gilded age, then, was the news last week that a Manhattan real estate broker had been arrested for using a fake waste-hauling license to buy used frying oil from a Brooklyn Checkers. Somewhere, Tom Wolfe is taking notes.