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Melville, Greg.
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Melville, Greg -- Anecdotes.
Green movement -- Popular works.
Vegetable oils as fuel.
Journalists -- Travel -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Automobile travel -- United States -- Anecdotes.
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Greasy rider : two dudes, one fry-oil-powered car, and a cross-country search for a greener future / Greg Melville.
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Melville, Greg.
Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008.
Subjects
Melville, Greg -- Anecdotes.
Green movement -- Popular works.
Vegetable oils as fuel.
Journalists -- Travel -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Automobile travel -- United States -- Anecdotes.
ISBN:
9781565125957 (pbk.) :
1565125959
Description:
257 p. ; 21 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
The ultimate green home -- Wind power -- Ethanol -- Fence swingers -- Heat -- Green Wal-Mart? -- The letter.
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Summary:
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.
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Hawaii Kai Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
333.72092 Me
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Business, Science & Technology
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