Bio-diesel made from food in oil-rich UAE
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The Middle East is a region where automobile is king and fuel is inexpensive, often leaving little reward to find more environmentally-friendly ways of moving around.
But this year, as protests throughout the Middle East have actually pressed up the price of oil, the problem of discovering alternative sources of fuel has come into sharp focus.
In an area that has one of the highest on the planet, one organization is benefiting from the growing pressure to find alternatives to oil. It's established the Middle East's very first plan to recycle cooking oil into biodiesel. It's proving lucrative too, already their client-list contains McDonald's.
Philip Hampsheir reports from Dubai.
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23 August 2011
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Bio-diesel made from Food in Oil-rich UAE
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