A tiny mention in a local Alaska newspaper, the
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, points out that a German team of nine drivers will drive three Volkswagen's from Fairbanks, Alaska to the bottom of South America – a distance of 25,000 kilometers/15,500 miles - in just over two weeks. The drivers will be on the move around the clock and the goal is to raise awareness of biodiesel as a legitimate fuel choice. The ride will be recorded by two TV crews traveling with the team and parts of the footage will be made available free to media outlets. What would be really cool is if the planes that will fly the SUVs over the Panama Canal were using green technology, or if the vehicles could be moved over the water in a sailboat of some kind. For more information, check out the team's website
here. The ride starts next week. [Source: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner]
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Mehdi Hassan 6:31AM (4/29/2006)
Energy crisis is a serious crisis and people should be made aware of this problem.We can not keep using oil for a long time. We have to encourage people and countries to work on alternative power source that are less harmful. I wish these people goodluck.
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Razib Ahmed 6:49AM (4/29/2006)
Yes, I wish them good luck too. The price of oil is getting high and that is why we should think of biodesel more as it is enviroment friendly too. Indian Oil Corp. (IOC) is now suffering huge losses because they have to sell oil cheap price and the government is giving the subsidy. If this condition continues in the current fiscal year the company may lose Rs 30,000 crore (nearly $6.65 billion) (http://www.southasiabiz.com/2006/04/indian_oil_corp_ioc_suffering.html). I just wonder why governments around the world do not provide the same subsidy for environments friendly fuels like biodesel.
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