Man caught filling car with cooking oil in Congleton
By Alex Greensmith 17th Mar 2022
A Congleton man has filmed another someone filling up his car with cooking oil.
The one minute clip which has received 58,000 views on Facebook shows a man with emptying bottles of Tesco cooking oil into his car.
It was recorded in the carpark of Tesco Congleton, on the Clayton Bypass.
Mark Rainford - who shot the clip - posted it with the caption: "What fuel prices? Tesco Congleton."
The man was pictured with eight 1L bottles of Tesco oil.
While the exact plant fuel cannot be identified, a similar looking bottle of Tesco Cooking Oil costs £1.09 per litre.
This pales in comparison to the average petrol price in Congleton is 161.4p/litre. And £1.71p average per litre for diesel.
The cheapest petrol in Cheshire East is at Morrisons on Dunwoody Way in Crewe, at 155.4p per litre.
Cooking oil is evidentially cheaper than petrol per litre, and can be safely used as an alternative fuel in diesel engines.
So it is presumed that this man caught on camera was driving a diesel car.
However, vegetable oils can clog diesel engines due to their higher viscosity than regular car fuel.
But given the rising costs of filling up in the wake of the Ukranian-Russian conflict, this unidentified Congletonian believed it was worth the risk.
The full video can be viewed here.
Congleton: Have you ever tried driving on vegetable fuels?
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