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Running a vehicle on vegetable oil is illegal according to EPA!

In the latest edition of AmandaAcrossAmerica, Amanda Congdon meets up with Nate, a Minneapolis man who lives in his motor home, and pays very little to operate it. The RV has been modified to run on recycled vegetable oil from restaurants. It features a 100 gallon tank to hold the fry oil in addition to the standard 40 gallon diesel tank. The vehicle uses straight unprocessed oil with nothing but a a filtration system to clean out any residues. Nate starts up on regular diesel until the veggie oil warms up and then switches over. Before ... Read more →

Not all the electric cars were killed Sam Abuelsamid

A couple of years back fans of the GM EV1 electric car got very upset when GM decided to take back all the cars that they had leased. Someone even made a movie about it. There was a big uproar over ...

Amanda Congdon visits a biodiesel co-op Sam Abuelsamid

While still in Madison, WI Amanda Congdon visited the PrairieFire BioFuels Co-op. The co-op, like many others springing up around the United States, is a member owned group working to build ...

Madison Wisconsin getting diesel electric hybrid buses Sam Abuelsamid

On another recent episode of AmandaAcrossAmerica, Amanda Congdon interviewed Mayor Dave Cieslewicz of Madison, WI. During the interview the mayor discussed the efforts that Madison and many other ...

AmandaAcrossAmerica visits the Escape Hybrid Assembly Plant Sam Abuelsamid

Amanda Congdon and crew are now about halfway across the country in in their AmandaAcrossAmerica trek. They recently visited the Ford Kansas City assembly plant in Missouri to see where their ride ...


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