[Vwdiesel] Aloha from Hawaii, was "how many of you froze up?"

[Lee Hillsgrove]

  Take a look at this link:

http://mauigreenenergy.org/Bio-Beetle.htm

"The idea for a biodiesel rental car has been a dream of Shaun Stenshol,
owner of Maui Recycling Service, for years. He and fellow working partners,
Bob and Camille Armantrout and Pamela Miedtke-Wolf, are constantly looking
for ways to make Maui self sustaining, and their lives as close to zero
waste as possible. Maui Recycling Service, plus, Shaun, Pam, Bob and Camille
currently use Bio diesel in all their vehicles. This joint effort, to make
Bio-Beetle a reality, was just another way to show what we can do, right
now, to help protect the planet."



  Lee
  Oo-v-oO
  PP-ASEL
  KB1GNI






>After all the talk of winter freeze, I send greetings from Honolulu.  Not
many
>diesel cars here in Hawaii.  The only one I've seen here so far was a '96
>or '97 Passat TDI in a grocery store parking lot.  Diesel is $1.999 per
gallon
>here, compared to $1.75 for regular gas, so I can see why not many people
would
>buy a diesel here.  Plus, you really can't drive that far, since it's an
>island.  Weather's nice here, though.  I went from chipping ice off my
driveway
>with a garden spade on Saturday, to frying myself on the beach in Waikiki
>yesterday.  The wonders of air travel!  Well, the wife and I are off to
explore
>the island in our exciting Chev Prizm rental (ugh!)  I'm suffering from
diesel
>withdrawal.
>Stay warm, everyone.
>
>--Tyson Cragg