Veggie Girls - six college students cross the country on vegetable oil
Six female college students from schools across the country who call themselves the Veggie Girls decided that high gas prices and carbon emissions were old school. The new thing is finding out "just how far their vegetables can take them" and so the students, from Vassar, Stanford, Scripps, Cuesta, UCSB and Cal Poly, took a two-week trip earlier this year across America in a vehicle running on vegoil. The Veggie Girls got a dozen donors to sponsor the $3,000 conversion of one of the girls' father's truck. The conversion kit came from Plant Drive, a Berkeley-based business. While on the road, the Veggie Girls kept an eye out for Asian restaurants to get their fuel. Actually, their eyes were glued to phone books and GPS units to find these restaurants. Random chance is so 2000. Read more here.
Five of the Veggie Girls (the full roster includes Caitlyn Arigo, Audrey Faber, Rachel Faber, Jenny Morrill, Alyssa Tennant, and Aubrey Wynn) will speak about the trip at Cuesta College tomorrow evening.
[Source: New Times SLO]
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oliomap.com 10:23AM (1/29/2008)
GreyFlcn, of course there is deforestation because of biofuels, but industrial biofuels. These girls are just using WVO, it doesn't kill the planet. It's an education tool to show its possible to find easy and cheap ways of become more environmentally friendly. It will be easier for someone who drove on WVO to switch to something better when it comes out and is affordable (electric, air, hydrogen, solar, biomasse, algae, etc..) than someone who keeps on using fossil fuels.
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Joseph 7:11PM (11/16/2007)
"$3,000 conversion of one of the girls' father's truck"
What kind of truck seats six people?
Maybe the rest just sat in the back?
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NotEnough4DaLatest 5:58PM (11/16/2007)
Wow, the veggie girls are totally hot. Oh and they are kewl too.
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GreyFlcn 6:34PM (11/16/2007)
Thanks for killing the Planet.
http://greyfalcon.net/soy
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TIMMAH! 11:36PM (11/17/2007)
That one in red looks like she's hurling after a bad night out...
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