Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil-Powered Car, and a Cross-Country Search for a Greener Future
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (852 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1565125959 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 257 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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great experience this book is very interesting and it's an easy read. i thought i was going to hate reading it, but i actually enjoyed reading for once.. "A Hilarious Cross-Country Search for Used Fry Oil" according to Madam Pince. Take an Eastern liberal with no mechanical aptitude, pair him with a down-to-earth college friend who knows his way around an engine, and put them in a retooled Mercedes for an eight-day trip across the country while begging restaurants for fry-oil fuel -- and you'll have a laugh-aloud read that leaves you longing for French fries. Greg Melville & his pal Iggy travel . doomsdayer5"Give Grease a Chance" according to doomsdayer520. Like an earlier reviewer, I'm not sure if this book's hook is really true - the supposed first cross-country trip in a car powered only by vegetable oil. Nevertheless, Greg Melville gives us a fairly interesting book in which an underwhelming travelogue combines with half-baked feature journalism to form a pretty useful environmental message. Thanks to the travelogue . 0 said Give Grease a Chance. Like an earlier reviewer, I'm not sure if this book's hook is really true - the supposed first cross-country trip in a car powered only by vegetable oil. Nevertheless, Greg Melville gives us a fairly interesting book in which an underwhelming travelogue combines with half-baked feature journalism to form a pretty useful environmental message. Thanks to the travelogue
Joined by his college friend, Iggy, Melville embarks on the first oil-powered cross-country road trip. From Publishers Weekly Early on in this eco-travelogue, mechanically-disinclined magazine writer Melville notes, "I simply needed to look at my reflection in the rearview mirror to realize that nearly anyone can operate and maintain a french-fry car." Indeed, it turns out Melville is easily able to convert a diesel-engine Mercedes into a vehicle powered entirely on fryer oil, collected (usually for free) from restaurant grease dumpsters. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. These insights, and the simplicity of his grease-powered transport, propel an otherwise slight read into a thought-, and perhaps action-provoking lesson in alternative fuel. There isn't really much suspense to the quest, especially once it's clear that they can use oil purchased at the supermark
The quest: to be the first people to drive cross-country in a french-fry car. With his college buddy Iggy riding shotgun, this green-thinking guy—who's in love with the idea of free fuel—sets out on an enlightening road trip. Is it possible to drive coast-to-coast without stopping at a single gas pump? Journalist Greg Melville is determined to try. Will they make it from Vermont to California in a beat-up 1985 Mercedes diesel station wagon powered on vegetable oil collected from restaurant grease Dumpsters along the way? More important, can two guys survive 192 consecutiv