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Greasy rider : two dudes, one fry-oil-powered car, and a cross-country search for a greener future / Greg Melville.
- Title
- Greasy rider : two dudes, one fry-oil-powered car, and a cross-country search for a greener future / Greg Melville.
- Author
- Melville, Greg
- Publication
- Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, c2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | GE197 .M45 2008 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 257 p.; 21 cm.
- 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
- Genre/Form
- Anecdotes
- Popular works
- Anecdotes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-257).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The ultimate green home -- Wind power -- Ethanol -- Fence swingers -- Heat -- Green Wal-Mart? -- The letter.
- ISBN
- 9781565125957
- 1565125959
- LCCN
- ^^2008025991
- OCLC
- 212844428
- SCSB-10841640
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library