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MBN Drama: Flux's bus on the blink

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Photo: CC/Shelley

Photo: CC/Shelley

A furious Flux Rostrum is pushing his wheezing green grease bus into Austin tonight.

Emblazoned with Flux’s Mobile Broadcast News, the hobbled bus is also proving to be a cop, and bee, magnet.

I don’t know what Flux’s current mission is all about, but I do hope it gets sorted out.

For all you green greasers out there, here is an excerpt of Flux’s latest post:

As I rolled around under the bus frantically trying to put tape on wet hose with one hand (because that’s all that would fit it the space) a trucker pulls up next to me hops out and leans down to warn me of the swarm of bees he saw behind my bus… I thanked him even though those bees and the ones I was laying on were all dead from the coolant that covered my entire body as well.

I cut an extra piece of hose and tried to cover the hole and protect the hose from the sharp metal it had been rubbing against for 25,000 miles. I called in for reinforcements from my Texas comrades, ideas for where i could limp the bus to for safety.. Thank you all, just knowing someone was helping me think it through was quite comforting. Also, Much thanks to Topher who I bugged ’til the wee hours last night trying to find a solution. You Topher, are my “real” favorite veggie mechanic; the title of this post however is a reference that that other guy will only get.

via To My Favorite WVO Mechanic | Fluxview, USA.

Boston drivers: Fill-up at ten cents per gallon

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Converted: This tank, in the trunk of a converted green grease car, holds waste vegetable oil. (Photo: Ben Falk, from the Green Grease Monkey website.)

by Mark Baard

As gas prices pass four bucks per gallon, green grease has never looked so good.

And with more entrepreneurs entering the Boston biodiesel and waste vegetable oil market, prices for the stuff are plummeting.

“The grease wars have begun in earnest,” Green Grease Monkey Patrick Keaney told me in an email this week.

The Boston Globe’s Robert Gavin today reports that premium is already way over four bucks, “while diesel hit a whopping $4.72 a gallon in Massachusetts.”

But if you own a car converted to run on waste vegetable oil (WVO), you can fill your tank (the plastic one in your trunk, that is), for as little as ten cents per gallon.

“I can’t keep the stuff on site,” Keaney said of his own, filtered, WVO product. “It’s crazy.”

Keaney is selling WVO, which he gathers from local restaurant kitchens, for $1.50 per gallon.

Now New Hampshire companies are coming to Boston, “offering $0.10/gal. for
grease!” said Keaney. “And some guy on Craigslist is offering $0.20.”

If you already drive a diesel, the Green Greasemonkeys and Boston Biofuels are offering B100 (100 percent biodiesel) at a very reasonable $4.00 per gallon.

You can pour biodiesel straight into the tank of your diesel car — no conversion necessary.

Spring is a good time to take a chance on WVO or biodiesel. The warm weather means you won’t have too warm up your tank in the morning. (WVO and biodiesel can gel at low temperatures, one reason WVO cars have a switch that toggles between the veggie oil and diesel tanks. Continue reading →