Greasy rider
Subtitle: two dudes, one fry-oil-powered car, and a cross-country search for a greener future
By: Greg Melville.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781565125957
Subjects: Melville, Greg -- Anecdotes; Green movement -- Popular works; Vegetable oils as fuel; Journalists -- Travel -- United States -- Anecdotes; Automobile travel -- United States -- Anecdotes
Genres: Anecdotes.; Popular works.
Description: Describes the cross-country odyssey of a freelance journalist and his college buddy in a dilapidated 1985 Mercedes diesel station wagon powered on vegetable oil collected from restaurant grease and dumpsters along the way, detailing their visits to Google's solar-powered headquarters, the National Ethanol Council, wind turbines in Minnesota, and other alternative energy hotspots.