This car has been retrofitted by a friend of mine and her husband to run on filtered vegetable oil. Every month they collect 100 gallons of vegetable oil from a Japanese restaurant. “It does take time to collect and then filter,” she says. “But once you get the hang of it, it’s not bad — the biggest time factor was establishing a relationship with a restaurant that was interested in working with us.”

How cool is that? Plus, they never have to pick something up to bring to a barbecue — they’ve got salad dressing in the tank.

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Bonus Blogenberg: Here’s one thing I’ve figured out: it’s harder for a dad to get out of the way of a son than to get out of the way of a daughter. Blogenberg readers know I’ve got twins — a boy and a girl about to start high school. Both are very good athletes. Both were recruited by high schools. Both are being welcomed and embraced by their respective high school coaches. I’m extremely proud of both. But for the boy, I have to continually keep myself from acting like his agent (which would not be a good thing). I don’t have that urge for my daughter. It’s because I see myself in my son. For obvious reasons, I don’t see myself in my daughter.

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