Lockdowns, curfews, and fewer people eating out due to the coronavirus are dwindling the supplies of used cooking oil that is used in renewable fuels production, and refiners are now racing to procure feedstocks for biodiesel in California, Bloomberg reports . Supplies of used cooking oil and animal fats from restaurants have slumped this year, while some of the largest U.S. oil refiners have announced plans to convert oil refineries into biofuel producing sites. California has a state-level program to support renewable diesel production as part of its policies to cut emissions from transportation. As fuel demand and oil prices collapsed in the pandemic earlier this year, refiners began to announce plans for new renewable fuels production. Phillips 66, for example, said in August that it plans to reconfigure its San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, to produce renewable fuels. The plant would no longer produce fuels from crude […]