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Date Posted: 06:32:15 07/15/08 Tue
Author: -S.
Subject: And now for something completely different...

How about an Xterra that runs on wood chips? Here's an SUV that does just that:




But Can You Call It a Woody?

HOW much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could drive an S.U.V.? About 25 pounds, says Robert Beam. That's how much wood it takes to fill the hopper of his 1988 Isuzu Trooper, which he has converted to run on wood chips.

Mr. Beam said that in the summer of 2005, "something was telling me to figure out how to run cars on something other than gas." He remembered hearing as a child that cars could be made to run on wood, so with the decision-making powers granted by a few beers, he decided to modify the Trooper, (it was laid up in his yard in Alfred Station, N.Y., with fuel-injection problems), to burn wood instead of gasoline.

More---> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/automobiles/06TROOPER.html?scp=8&sq=woody&st=nyt

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