The star at last week’s Philadelphia Auto Show wasn’t a sports car or an economy car. It was a sports-economy car - one that combines performance and practicality under one hood.
But as CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman reports in this week’s Assignment America, the car that buyers have been waiting decades comes from an unexpected source and runs on soybean bio-diesel fuel to boot.
A car that can go from zero to 60 in four seconds and get more than 50 miles to the gallon would be enough to pique any driver’s interest. So who do we have to thank for it. Ford? GM? Toyota? No - just Victor, David, Cheeseborough, Bruce, and Kosi, five kids from the auto shop program at West Philadelphia High School. The rest of the article is here. Check the video, these boys are so cute.
How embarrassing for for the Auto Industry. These inner city, marginalised kids did in a year what they have been unable or unwilling to do. They found a use for all the Soybean oil, soon to be ‘discovered’ to be one of the causes of, obesity, heart disease, cancer, you name it. When my kids ask why they can’t have potato chips, I tell them that they’re cooked in vegetable, which is more suitable for a car than their body.
Now I have proof.
About the Author...
Joanne Hay, Editor of Nourished Magazine, Chief Nourisher and Mother of three is very grateful to live in Byron Bay and be able to share all she has learned about Nourishment. She has trained as an Acupuncturist (unfinished), Kinesiologist (finished) and parent (never finished). She serves the Weston A Price Foundation as a chapter leader. She loves sauerkraut, kangaroo tail stew, home made ice cream, her husband Wes and her kids Isaiah, Brynn and Ronin (in no particular order…well maybe ice cream first).
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