"Lipo-Diesel" Doctor Craig Alan Bittner (dralanbittner.com)
Plastic surgeon Craig Alan Bittner, of now closed Beverly Hills Liposculpture clinic, used liposuctioned fat from his patients to power SUVs, according to the reports. Though of his fat-for-fuel or "lipodiesel" intention, what Dr. Craig Alan Bittner had done has apparently brushed with California's law which bans to use human medical waste as vehicle fuels.
A former Beverly Hills plastic surgeon is in trouble with the law because he fueled his car with human fat sucked from his patients.
Craig Alan Bittner apparently created "lipo-diesel" from his patient's fat and used it to fuel his Ford SUV and his girlfriend's Lincoln Navigator.
California public health officials say that it is illegal because state law forbids the use of human medical waste to power vehicles.
Bittner said he was trying to be environmentally friendly by using the "lipo-diesel."
"The vast majority of my patients request that I use their fat for fuel -- and I have more fat than I can use," Bittner wrote on lipodiesel.com, which is no longer online. "Not only do they get to lsoe their love handles or chubby belly but they get to take part in saving the earth."
His patients might not have been such willing participants, however.
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It's unclear when he started and stopped making his "lipo-diesel" or how he made it. [Chinadaily]
The California Department of Public Health is now investigating the issue, but Alan Bittner has moved to South America “to volunteer with a small clinic...where he can help those most in need,” possibly in an intention to escaping of being examined.