Looks like you had a great trip. I just came across this today while surfing around CNN, and I'm like, I know that guy. Interesting take on the biofuel trip. I converted my car to ethanol personally. It would be interesting to see you guys do it with a vegetable oil vehicle, for which I believe there is a race coming up.

Have fun!

Guy

For a look at the truck kindly visit:

http://www.iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2008/05/smoke-em-if-you.html

I'm off again to the Permian Basin in about three weeks. Anybody want to tag along?

HW

Could have been worse, but limping camel dealers, not yet licensed.

I could not see that you proved anything. Get me a sponsor and I'll paste their adds on a vehicle and do it too. Blog all the way .. I'll even use an electric car. Take the wife and our dog. How about it, San Antonio to San Francisco to Denver to St Louis to Chicago to Wash DC and even end in Atlanta at CNN.

What the heck, rent a new Mercedes diesel and ride in comfort.

Rent couldn't cost much more than buying and repairing an older vehicle.

Valcent industries and MIT have built hanging garden-like systems that grow alga in clear plastic "curtains". These curtains hang inside a greenhouse building. I see numerous references to jatropha, palm oil, soybean oil, etc. on the net but almost nowhere do I see anyone praising the one thing that can really produce a large amount of fuel on a small segment of land. According to Glenn Kertz, CEO of Valcent, just 10% of the non arable land in New Mexico would be enough for their system to produce ALL of the liquid fuels this country needs. WHY IS EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT EVERYTHING BUT THIS ALGA SYSTEM? FLAGRANT DISREGARD? SHORT-SIGHTED? CONSPIRACY TO KEEP US SLAVES TO FOREIGN OIL?
I cannot believe people are ignoring this at a time when our economy is bleeding. Makes me wonder if certain unseen people are exerting undue influence on our elected representatives.

This stuff can be produced on land not suitable for growing food so it won't conflict with the growing of food.
It doesn't use any food stocks so it won't contribute to the higher price of food.
It burns cleaner than any fossil fuel and doesn't release "new" CO2 into the atmosphere.
The CO2 released came from the atmosphere not from under the ground.
If 10% of New Mexico could fulfill all the needs of the USA, setting up this system on more than that amount of land would mean the company could begin exporting fuel to other countries.
Wouldn't that be a change??

You can find videos at Youtube that show the whole setup and hear the VEO explain why it works better than anything else presently available.

The answer is blowing in the SasQuatch smell. So elusive but highly effective.
CNN to deploy Brian and Cody, experienced conniseurs, in smell tracking.