Gazans make own fuel amid Israel restrictions

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Taxi driver Saif Khadour swears by his recipe to keep his cherry-red Mercedes Benz on the road: four parts cooking oil to one part turpentine.

Other motorists have experimented with different concoctions added to cooking oil, including shots of diesel, motor oil, kerosene, pesticides and even air freshener, as ways around Israeli-imposed fuel restrictions in the Gaza Strip.

Still others have converted gas-run cars to electric batteries.
It’s hardly a green revolution in the most impoverished part of the Palestinian territories. It’s more about practical, home-school chemistry lessons: figuring out what brew will keep the cars moving as regular gas prices soar to about $27 a gallon on the black market