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Religions > Atheism |
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"Fred Stone" |
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17 Sep 2005 07:20:34 AM |
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Out of the frying pan, into the fuel tank? |
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues05/sep05/phenomena.html
Every few weeks, Etta Kantor goes to a Chinese restaurant and fills a
couple of five-gallon pails with used cooking oil. Back in her garage, the
59-year-old philanthropist and grandmother strains it through a cloth
filter and then pours it into a custom-made second fuel tank in her 2003
Volkswagen Jetta diesel station wagon. Once the car is warmed up, she flips
a fuel toggle on the dashboard to switch to the vegetable oil. Wherever she
drives, she’s trailed by the appetizing odor of egg rolls...
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Fred Stone
aa# 1369
"This city, for the first time that I can remember,
is drug-free and violence-free.
And we plan to keep it that way." - Mayor Ray Nagin
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| User: "nunia" |
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| Title: Re: Out of the frying pan, into the fuel tank? |
18 Sep 2005 04:16:36 AM |
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Fred Stone
aa# 1369
"This city, for the first time that I can remember,
is drug-free and violence-free.
And we plan to keep it that way." - Mayor Ray Nagin
thats cause no one is there.......................
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| User: "John Baker" |
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| Title: Re: Out of the frying pan, into the fuel tank? |
18 Sep 2005 05:12:16 AM |
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On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:20:34 +0000 (UTC), Fred Stone
<fstone69@earthling.com> wrote:
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues05/sep05/phenomena.html
Every few weeks, Etta Kantor goes to a Chinese restaurant and fills a
couple of five-gallon pails with used cooking oil. Back in her garage, the
59-year-old philanthropist and grandmother strains it through a cloth
filter and then pours it into a custom-made second fuel tank in her 2003
Volkswagen Jetta diesel station wagon. Once the car is warmed up, she flips
a fuel toggle on the dashboard to switch to the vegetable oil. Wherever she
drives, she’s trailed by the appetizing odor of egg rolls...
Remember the Dodge turbine car from back in the '60s? It would run on
just about anything combustible.
Too bad it never really got off the drawing board. I think less than
100 prototypes were actually built.
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