Cooking oil fuels 4022.5km car rally

BEIJING, Aug.28 (Chinese medianet) -- Fuelled only by

used cooking fat, eight teams completed a 4022.5km car rally from London to

Athens in a bid to promote awareness of cheap and environmentally-friendly

bio-fuels, according to Thursday's media reports.

The "Grease to Greece" race, the brainchild of

34-year-old Londoner Andy Pag, took the teams on a 10-day mission across Europe

in which they begged oil to fuel their cars from restaurants, motorway cafes and

fast-food joints along the way.

The race ended on Wednesday with a ceremony at the

British Embassy in Athens where Ambassador Simon Gass presented a Golden Lard

award to the team.

Pag paid only227kg for his second-hand Peugeot

405 and spent nothing on fuel since leaving London -- saving the equivalent of

what he paid for the car.

An experienced eco-traveller, Pag drove to the desert

town of Timbuktu in Mali last year using a truck powered by waste chocolate. His

next scheme is a round-the-world trip next year using aviation fuel made from

recycled plastic bags.

(Agencies)