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Article: TEENS TURN FAST FOOD TO CHEAP FUEL BYFIELD CLASS CONVERTS VEGETABLE OIL TO RUN CAR
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 12, 2005
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BYFIELD If everything goes according to plan in a Governor Dummer
Academy class this fall, a green 1991 Mercedes Benz will gain some
new attributes, including a switch that allows the car to run on
vegetable oil and exhaust fumes that smell like fish sticks, french
fries, or chicken fingers from the boarding school's cafeteria.
The eight students in teacher Peter Kazarinoff's 10th-grade
chemistry class are transforming the donated Mercedes 350 into a
veggie car. Drivers across the country, albeit in small numbers, have
been adding vegetable oil conversion switches to their cars to cut
back on sooty emission and save cash, according to the American