Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe OBERLIN, Ohio, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A former gas station in Oberlin, Ohio, could become the first in the Buckeye State to pump 100 percent recycled vegetable oil to power diesel vehicles. Full Circle Fuel Center is the brainchild of Oberlin College graduate Sam Merrett and Biodiesel Cleveland owner Ray Holan. The pair met three years ago at Great Lakes Brewing Co., which runs its "Fatty Wagon" on biodiesel recycled by Holan's company. Advertisement "I've been energy conscious since high school," Merrett told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "I wanted my environmental science degree to mean something." Today, motorists who pay up to $2,000 to refit their vehicles can tap diesel-vegetable oil blends at Full Circle, which plans to offer 100 percent biodiesel next June. That will be bolstered with cooking oil from every restaurant in Oberlin and Merrett's alma mater to produce 40 gallons of biodiesel a week. In the winter months, though, the fuel will be capped at 20 percent vegetable oil since biodiesel loses viscosity in colder temperatures.
