Thursday, May 12th, 2005
I’m enamoured with biodiesel. And there seem to be more and more sites popping up with biodiesel information. Perhaps, actually, they’ve been there for some time, and I’m just now stumbling across them.
For those of you in Houston, here’s a great site I came across: Houston Biodiesel. Among some good information, I found out that MINI makes a diesel (it’s called the MINI One D and MINI One TD). Naturally, it’s only available in Europe… but can you imagine? This thing gets 58.85 MPG combined city/highway! And what if you ran it on biofuel — biodiesel or straight vegetable oil (SVO)?!? Unreal.
Rudolf Diesel was quite an amazing individual. Ahead of his time: Fattywaggons.com.
Oh — and Willie Nelson has taken quite an interest in biodiesel as well. So much so, that he started his own company, BioWillie. While I wasn’t able to find a website for BioWillie biodiesel, I was able to find a ridiculous blogger that is sticking-it-to-the-Rebuplicans with her (?) awesomely bad, feminist-and-biodiesel-but-not-Republican promoting agenda: The Goddess. Well, Goddess, I’m glad that we can at least agree on the fact that Willie Nelson is very progressive in adopting biofuels. But why do we have to hate Republicans also? I’m not too fond of the policies of any of the crack-heads up in DC. So can’t we just agree that, regardless of political affiliation, biofuels are a *good* thing? I would hope so.
For those of you in Austin, check out Austin Biofuels, LLC.