And veering the conversation away from Tubers Gone Wild, they've cast the faculty for the Fame remake-- [link]
Oh, funny thing from this weekend. We were hanging out at a bar that was doing pretty bad karaoke. A bunch of my sister's high school friends showed up unexpectedly. Within a few minutes the quality of the singing had gone up about eleventy notches, and even the people just singing and dancing along around the bar were like they were in the freaking video or something.
My sister, of course, went to the High School of the Arts here. An acquaintance from the bar was all "what's going on in here?" and I just answered "Fame."
According to the interwebs, straight vegetable oil (SVO) cars produce very few emissions. So, yay!
Both biodiesel and veggy-oil have the virtue of repurposing existing carbon in the biosphere (taking growing plant matter which took carbon from the air, and returning it to the atmosphere by burning) whereas petroleum uses carbon which was sequestered from the atmosphere millions of years ago and adds it to the existing burden.
Ah. So, in a manner it's recycling pollution, not creating new.
In cat-related news, The world's oldest LOLCat. From 1905.
Depends on how you define pollution. Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) emissions are a problem with biodiesel and diesel in general. NOx is a major cause of smog, so it's a problem. Diesel engine technology keeps improving the pollution problem, but yeah, gas engines are cleaner in that respect.
I hope your MiL recovers well Cash.
~ma to your MiL and family, Cash.
Speaking of new diesel cars: A High-Mileage Masterpiece
But like many new clean diesels, which meet even California’s tough emissions rules, the Jetta scoffs at its sticker. Hoarding fuel like a mobile Scrooge, I averaged a remarkable 48 m.p.g. over more than 150 miles of freeway driving. That’s the best mileage of any American-market car I’ve tested — gas, diesel or hybrid. I never knew that driving a steady 60 m.p.h. could be so gratifying, and I vowed to try it more often.
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Among a wave of diesel cars and trucks — whose advanced emissions systems let them meet pollution rules in all 50 states -- the Jetta is the people’s choice, costing half as much as diesels from Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. The VW is also the current champion of diesel economy. And its 4-cylinder engine achieves impressively low emissions without the need to carry several gallons of liquid urea, which helps to cleanse the emissions of larger diesel cars and S.U.V.’s.
