Biodiesel by the Bucket is Greasy
July 3
When I left Seattle, I went all the way up the peninsula to see the Olympic National Park with more than a tank of bio-diesel...tanks to Dr Dan. Lucky me, I was good until I got to California. Oregon was nice but there is not much to do there. Beaches and rock, that’s about it.
On the 101 south, somewhere in the centre of California, just before Berkeley, a beautiful little pump by herself was sitting there. I was able to fill up the tank with biodiesel with 70% less greenhouse gasses, 55% less particulate, 55% less hydrocarbon, 80-90% less mutogenicity and 100% less sulfur.
I finally got to San Francisco, just beside Berkeley, a hippies town! I had a really good time there. People are really mellow there. I found a special station of bio diesel that’s open 4-8pm Monday to Saturday. Those hippies really take life an easy way. What a nice life.
So after filling up, I drove strait to San Luis Obispo, the next stop with biodiesel. Lucky me, it was the 4th of July and right beside the biodiesel station, I found a little beach called Pirate Cove, where clothes are optional. It’s so rare in America to find that type of beaches that I decided to hang out there for a little while until the station that was just opening were ready with there pumps of biodiesel. They had just official opened their new pumps but I had to wait 2 hours because of a computer problem.
So I ended up buying my biodiesel by the bucket. I enjoyed a lot this town but when it’s time to go, it’s time to go. You should have seen me making a mess everywhere around me trying to keep the fuel in the funnel. I couldn’t even take a picture because I was to greasy.
This is how I found my fuel everywhere I go now:
http://afdcmap2.nrel.gov/locator/findpane.asp
Go look at it, it’s an amazing site!
Kate
Note: This post is part of Hilltrip.com’s Carbon Offset Program, which helped Kathleen Marcotte convert her car to run on biodiesel to travel south of Whistler and than back to Quebec. While traveling Kate wrote stories about her biodiesel experience and they are now available here on TerraTrip.org’s blog for everyone to read.
When I left Seattle, I went all the way up the peninsula to see the Olympic National Park with more than a tank of bio-diesel...tanks to Dr Dan. Lucky me, I was good until I got to California. Oregon was nice but there is not much to do there. Beaches and rock, that’s about it.On the 101 south, somewhere in the centre of California, just before Berkeley, a beautiful little pump by herself was sitting there. I was able to fill up the tank with biodiesel with 70% less greenhouse gasses, 55% less particulate, 55% less hydrocarbon, 80-90% less mutogenicity and 100% less sulfur.
I finally got to San Francisco, just beside Berkeley, a hippies town! I had a really good time there. People are really mellow there. I found a special station of bio diesel that’s open 4-8pm Monday to Saturday. Those hippies really take life an easy way. What a nice life.
So after filling up, I drove strait to San Luis Obispo, the next stop with biodiesel. Lucky me, it was the 4th of July and right beside the biodiesel station, I found a little beach called Pirate Cove, where clothes are optional. It’s so rare in America to find that type of beaches that I decided to hang out there for a little while until the station that was just opening were ready with there pumps of biodiesel. They had just official opened their new pumps but I had to wait 2 hours because of a computer problem.So I ended up buying my biodiesel by the bucket. I enjoyed a lot this town but when it’s time to go, it’s time to go. You should have seen me making a mess everywhere around me trying to keep the fuel in the funnel. I couldn’t even take a picture because I was to greasy.
This is how I found my fuel everywhere I go now:
http://afdcmap2.nrel.gov/locator/findpane.asp
Go look at it, it’s an amazing site!
Kate
Note: This post is part of Hilltrip.com’s Carbon Offset Program, which helped Kathleen Marcotte convert her car to run on biodiesel to travel south of Whistler and than back to Quebec. While traveling Kate wrote stories about her biodiesel experience and they are now available here on TerraTrip.org’s blog for everyone to read.
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Very interesting to read the experience that Kate had on her way back home.
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