 The petrol supply is getting low. These ways of making light were all a huge hassle. They took a lot of work. It was not just that I didn't know what I was doing when I made those candles. The writer Harriet Beecher Stowe said making candles from animal fat was seven times as bad as washing clothes. I mean, think about it. You got to get a cow. You got to raise the cow. You got to have food to feed the cow. You got to kill the cow. You got to get the fat out of the cow. You got to put the fat in your Cuisinart.