Hello all,

The vegetable-oil powered Vanagon (or should I say Burger King fryalator grease-burning Vanagon) known "Grease Car" is back in the news this week, this time featured in the weekly rag "The Boston Phoenix." I see an old listserv thread on this topic at:

    http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0001D&L=vanagon&D=0&P=21768

Here's the Phoenix article:

    http://www.worcesterphoenix.com/archive/features/01/03/22/GREASE_CAR.html

And the Grease Car site:

    http://www.greasecar.com/

Enjoy, but please don't think I'm recommending this conversion for you, personally.

On the related topic of Vanagon environmentalism, my own beloved Vanagon broke down yesterday when a funny metal cap on the end of a thingamadoo (you know the one) blew out during rush hour. As I tried to turn over the motor in hopes that it would catch, torrential rain beating a chaotic drumroll on my pop-top, I was unwittingly pumping quarts of gasoline into the storm runoff. Arrgg. I ditched it at a metered spot, jumped on the subway, and got it towed after work. Somehow, no parking ticket...unless it's floating down the Charles right now.

Back to the Bentley,

George, in Boston

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