In 1945 she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service, and spent four weeks getting her hands covered in oil and grease as she learned to drive and maintain military vehicles.

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Economically, artificially-created fuel demand for corn, soybean oil, grease, and other inputs drives up the input prices for food and consumer products such like french fries, soaps, detergents, hair conditioners, eggs, dairy, and sweeteners.

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Hard to say and impossible to avoid, the chemical is part of the silicones family (think silicone oil or grease), which has been around for 50 years, and has been noted, generally, for its inertness, lack of toxicity, and resistance to microbiological growth and heat.

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Local partners or franchise-holders of foreign firms are typically middlemen who oil cogs and grease palms so that the outsiders can get on with selling their goods.

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For one, they usually have dirt, grease and oil stuck under their fingernails, and they know the difference between a small block and a cinder block.

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How about a WD-40 grease gun, or paraffin lube stick for windows, or lithium spray grease or two-stroke oil for your chain saw?

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But those barrels of used cooking oil in the back alley have ignited a grease war in Salt Lake County, Utah.

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Over a three-year test, the filters trapped 45 tons of pollutants, including 12 tons of oils and grease effectively preventing 3, 600 gallons of oil from washing into the ocean.

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One innovative company, Grease Lightning, based in New York City, has been purchasing used cooking oil from local restaurants to convert into biodiesel fuel since 2011.

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