I had a thought today while brewing up a hot batch of veggie fuel for the shuttle that we've been running a long time on Wast Veggie Oil (WVO), and that there must be a lot of miles clocked on our alternative fuel source at this point. When Nate returned from a run in Roxy (our vegetable powered shuttle) to the glacier on a shuttle trip, I jumped into the driver's seat and scoped out the mileage. We've officially traveled about 40,500 miles primarily on WVO as of today. I think that's pretty killer.
I'd like to thank the Resurrection Roadhouse, the Salmon Bake, our local Safeway Grocery store, and AVTEC's Culinary Institute for letting us have their waste oil, all of which is pure Canola Oil and top quality. Turns out what's better for our bodies turns out to be the only thing Roxy can run on as well.
I also shouldn't forget to thank the man that installed the basic system in Roxy that made all of this possible, Will Taygan of Arctic Vegworks.