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Author Melville, Greg.

Title Greasy rider : two dudes, one fry-oil-powered car, and a cross-country search for a greener future / Greg Melville.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  333.72 M497    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 257 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-257).
Contents The ultimate green home -- Wind power -- Ethanol -- Fence swingers -- Heat -- Green Wal-Mart? -- The letter.
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.
Subject Green movement -- Popular works.
Vegetable oils as fuel.
Melville, Greg -- Anecdotes.
Journalists -- Travel -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Automobile travel -- United States -- Anecdotes.
ISBN 9781565125957
1565125959
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