Calling a moratorium on stories about ‘the car that runs on…’

Cars run on so many things these days that it seems old hat for cars to run on restaurant grease. They run on water. They run on corn. They run on prairie grasses. They run on algae. They run on old telephone poles. As far as I’m concerned, San Francisco took the prize with its wastewater biofuel plant, creating the car that runs on sewage.
These stories just aren’t popping any more, because we’ve been reading them for years, while up and down the street, as far as the eye can see, are cars that run on gasoline. So let the story below be the last one about “the car that runs on” until a car comes along that actually replaces the one that runs on gasoline. Not in theory–in practice. Here it is, that final story before the moratorium, the car that runs on bacon fat. Can you guess the lede?
Bacon, it’s not just for breakfast, lunch and dinner anymore.
It’s the biofuel of choice for a pair of entrepreneurs building their business on pig fat. Founded in 2005 by married couple Dan and Tracy Kaderabek, Bio-Blend Fuels has a three-acre processing plant in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. “The pork gets run through microwaves to make precooked bacon, the grease falls off and that’s what we use,” Dan tells the Manitowoc Herald Reporter. “Americans’ bad eating habits ensure our supply.”
It doesn’t send consumer dollars offshore, reduces our dependence on foreign oil, offers better fuel efficiency than traditional diesel… blah blah blah. Here’s the real bonus: When you’re driving in or behind one of those bio-diesel cars, instead of inhaling the scent of rancid popcorn, you’ll be bathed in a sweet bacon wind. We’ll add it to our list of 1,001 things to do with bacon.
You know a story’s in trouble when the reporter fills it in with “blah, blah, blah.”