Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - 5:32am
Treehuggers have been powering their old Mercedes-Benz Diesel cars with used cooking oil for years, but now it's starting to creep deeper into the fuel we use to power our airliners. Last year we saw how Alaska Airlines ran some tests using a 20 percent biofuel blend, but now Air Canada has upped the ante by going with a 50/50 blend of jet fuel and old used cooking oil.