Man fills his car fuel tank with cooking oil in UK due to soaring petrol prices

CONGLETON: A man in Cheshire, Britain was found filling his car's fuel tank with vegetable oil instead of petrol after shopping from Tesco, a supermarket, reported The DailyMail.

This moment occurred amidst a spike in petrol prices, which is making people fear that they can no longer afford to travel in cars.

The person who recorded the video said that watching the man unscrew all bottle tops made him laugh.

"I filmed it and as I walked past him he was taking all the tops off the bottles first, that's what made me laugh," he said. "He had clearly thought it through."

While some took a laugh, others reprimanded his action by mentioning the hazards of putting vegetable fuel in the tank of a car.

"It's too thick and you'll blow the diesel pump up," said one person on social media. "And especially don't put it in a petrol car/van."

Another one said that putting oil instead of petrol will "eventually clog up the fuel system and homogenise the engine lubrication oil."

Cater Oils, the company that delivers cooking oil, said that it can be a possibility where vegetable or cooking oil can replace the need for petrol and work as a biofuel.

On its page, it strictly advises people to not try it until the experts can find a way to convert it into fuel through a process of transesterification.

Regardless of whether the actions of this man in the video raise serious concerns or simply humour people, it does certainly reflects what soaring petrol prices can force people to do.

UK ministers have been told that the prices will make it impossible for people to travel.

They have even been warned of a potential "de facto lockdown."