Main Menu Contributions   THE ALTERNATIVE ALTERNATIVE FUEL Posted by: grass on Oct 09, 2003 - 09:58 AM   http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/magazine/28ARDIEST.html By PAGAN KENNEDY / September 28, 2003 Three years ago, Justin Soares stood in the kitchen of the group house he lived in, consulting a recipe as he measured out methanol (a k a wood alcohol), Red Devil brand lye and some fry grease he'd begged off a local restaurant. He poured the ingredients into a blender and punched ''puree.'' Later, he took the blender out to his driveway and tipped its contents into the tank of his 1981 Volkswagen pickup. Soares, then a student at Oregon State University, had just made his own fuel. Eventually, he moved his operation to the backyard -- partly out of consideration for his seven housemates, who assumed he had been making soap. As his batches got bigger, he began sharing the fuel, called biodiesel, with friends. ''I got them hooked,'' Soares says.   Login THE ALTERNATIVE ALTERNATIVE FUEL | Login/Create an account | Comments Threshold -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 No comments Nested Flat Thread Oldest first Newest first Highest scores first    Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.