Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Dr Fuels car with fat from liposuction


A plastic surgeon in California has been powering his car with the fat that he extracted from his patients while doing liposuctions.


For a time, Beverly Hills doctor Craig Alan Bittner turned the fat he removed from patients into biodiesel that fueled his Ford SUV and his girlfriend's Lincoln Navigator.


Using fat to fuel cars might be environmentally friendly, but it's definitely illegal in California to use human medical waste to power vehicles, and Bittner is being investigated by the state's public health department.


Although it's unclear when Bittner started and stopped making fat fuel or how he made it, his activities came to light after recent lawsuits filed by patients that allege he allowed his assistant and his girlfriend to perform surgeries without a medical license.


Sounds like he cut corners in every possible.

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