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Baby Driven From Alaska to Tierra del Fuego (Arg) on Grease!
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After nine months and 21.000 miles (34.000 km) Seth Warren and Tyler Bradt have finally made it to Tierra del Fuego in Argentina. The end of the world. And to them, it’s the end of the world as we know it, and the beginning of a new one. What makes their journey so special is their travel-companion, an old red japanese fire truck babtized “Baby” by a rastafarian in Belize, has been running on used frying oil and animal fat. On the way the duo has made hundreds of stops asking farmers, fisherman and restaurant chefs for used frying oil and animal fat. The truck is packed with tanks to clean waste vegetable oil or lard and turn it into fuel for its standard diesel engine.  In Alaska, the duo ran the truck on fish oil. In Mexico and Central America, they used pig fat from the Chicharroneras -- stands that serve fried bits of pork.
They fueled up with palm oil in Colombia and Ecuador and soy oil in Bolivia and Chile.
Along the way, they coordinated with U.S. embassies to organize seminars for children and university students about their trip and the use of biofuels.
The idea is to find alternatives to burning fossil fuels, which release gases like carbon dioxide that are linked to global warming.
The United States, the world's biggest emitter of such gases, pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol, which binds most industrialized nations to cut harmful emissions.
"We're trying to set an example of maybe how Americans should behave and how our country should act, and how we as a nation should provide a role model for the rest of the world to use alternative fuels," Bradt said.
The men performed cartwheels at the national park sign which reads: "Alaska 17,848 km." Warren grabbed a towel and headed for the nearby bay, where he planned to skinny-dip.
"How do I feel being at the end of the world? Well, in all honesty, it feels like just the beginning," he said. (alertnet.org)
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