Gunner this is article about the soy car is interesting. The electrical utility that I am retiring from at the end of the month has started using deep fryer fats mixed into the diesel to fuel the trucks, it is working well. It has changed our business dramatically, we have really had to change our employees response at the end of the job from just thanking the customer for their patience to asking " Would you like fries with that?". It might be interesting if our bill collectors start using the bio diesel mix, they could change from saying "thank you for your payment" to " Would you like to BIGGY that?"
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>Kids Build Soybean-Fueled Car
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>>The star at last week's Philadelphia Auto Show wasn't a sports car or
>>an economy car. It was a sports-economy car - one that combines
>>performance and practicality under one hood.
>>
>>But as CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman reports in this week's
>>Assignment America, the car that buyers have been waiting decades
>>[for] comes from an unexpected source and runs on soybean bio-diesel >>fuel to boot.
>>
>>A car that can go from zero to 60 in four seconds and get more than 50
>>miles to the gallon would be enough to pique any driver's interest. So
>>who do we have to thank for it. Ford? GM? Toyota? No - just Victor,
>>David, Cheeseborough, Bruce, and Kosi, five kids from the auto shop
>>program at West Philadelphia High School.
>>
>>The five kids, along with a handful of schoolmates, built the
>>soybean-fueled car as an after-school project. It took them more than
>>a year - rummaging for parts, configuring wires and learning as they
>>went. As teacher Simon Hauger notes, these kids weren't exactly the
>>cream of the academic crop.
>>
>>"We have a number of high school dropouts," he says. "We have a number
>>that have been removed for disciplinary reasons and they end up with >>us."
>>
>>One of the Fab Five, Kosi Harmon, was in a gang at his old school -
>>and he was a terrible student. The car project has changed all that. >>
>>"I was just getting by with the skin of my teeth, C's and D's," he
>>says. "I came here, and now I'm a straight-A student."
>>
>>To Hauger, the soybean-powered car shows what kids - any kids - can do
>>when they get the chance.
>>
>>"If you give kids that have been stereotyped as not being able to do
>>anything an opportunity to do something great, they'll step up," he >>says.
>>
>>Stepping up is something the big automakers have yet to do. They're
>>still in the early stages of marketing hybrid cars while playing
>>catch-up to the Bad News Bears of auto shop.
>>
>>"We made this work," says Hauger. "We're not geniuses. So why aren't >>they doing it?"
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>>Kosi thinks he knows why. The answer, he says, is the big oil
>>companies.
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>>"They're making billions upon billions of dollars," he says. "And when
>>this car sells, that'll go down - to low billions upon billions." >
> "Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
> Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
> off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
> them self determination under "play nice" rules.
>
> Think of it as having your older brother knock the shit out of you
> for torturing the cat." Gunner