November 9, 2007 - 1:00am
By Jessica DiNapoli
I work at a restaurant, and every so often the cooks empty the oil out of the deep fryer into 5-gallon jugs. The oil is thick and golden, spotted with black flecks of only what I can call crud.
Yesterday, in Cornell University’s B-parking lot, Gregg Wicken, the founder of VegPower, a mecca for veggie car equipment located in Brooktondale, hoisted a jug of vegetable oil from the backseat of his veggie car.
“This is great; this is golden,” he said, holding the jug up to the sunlight. “You can almost see through it.”