The Plot
I have sort of a harebrained scheme.
I’m trying to convince my younger stepbrother to sell his Mazda and convert to biodiesel with an old Mercedes. His commute to work is short anyway, and he rarely uses the car for long-distance driving, so an older vehicle would be ideal. Plus, the Mazda is pretty new — I’m guessing that he could actually make a profit when all was said and done. Okay okay, I need to let people exercise their own free will, but I mentioned it to him two nights ago, and he’s been asking me questions since, which I take to mean he’s interested (I wish we could have a camera on these discussions, because he’s asking all the questions that I asked when I was just starting my biodiesel exploration — all the questions that I assume any uninitiated would ask…) The cool thing about this — if it happened — would be that we could shoot it all as an EnergyRush story…talk to him about why he’s making the change, track him selling his current car and purchasing a diesel vehicle, and then have a dialogue with a mechanic about changing fuel lines or the filter, etc. The story could maybe serve as the biodiesel primer that I was moaning about a few blogs ago.
SNAP OUT OF IT, leave fantasy-land behind, and knock wood three times. Let’s just hope he considers it further — I think it could be a really fun story to do. Nobody tell my stepbrother I’m blogging about him behind his back…
–Refined gOil
P.S. I totally messed up the date for Green Drinks in Culver City — it’s the first Thursday of every month, not the first Monday =( I’ll catch ‘em in December…
