I mean, do we really need more stress in our lives?"īut Megenity's wheels began spinning when she read From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank, Joshua Tickell's book about vegetable-based fuel. Really, I've always found the traffic to be annoying. "I've been irritated by cars my whole life, and I have felt guilty about driving in the past. Most days, she walks to and from her house in Denver's uptown neighborhood to the Mercury's home on 21st Street, accompanied by her dog, Louisa. Long a fan of Ralph Nader, she tried to start a boycott on the combustion engine in the '70s. In fact, what we need to do is consume less." The same group of people that stifled wind energy and solar energy has propagandized the auto industry to the point that people believe everyone needs a car. "You don't have to connect yourself to the gangster Mafia in order to get it. "Biodiesel is better for the environment, far less toxic than regular gasoline, and you don't have to go to war for it," Megenity says. Bio-believers regard the vegetable-based fuel as the ultimate form of recycling - and one possible solution to a number of political, ecological and automotive ailments, including the greenhouse effect and international terrorism.
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We can do that.'"Īn astrologer, activist, chef and proprietor of the Mercury Cafe, the willowy-haired Megenity is among a growing fleet of drivers in Colorado and across the nation who are discovering that they can, in fact, run their cars, vans, city buses and eighteen-wheelers on biodiesel, an alternative fuel hybrid processed from everything from soybeans and sunflowers to bacon fat and reconstituted grease from McDonald's Happy Meals.
"He thought about it for a second and then he just said, 'Oh, yeah. He paused for a moment, looked at Megenity, looked at her car. "I just bought a diesel-engine Mercedes, and I'm hoping to convert it to run on vegetable oil," she told the mechanic. About a month ago, Marilyn Megenity walked into an auto shop in lower downtown and posed a somewhat unusual proposition.
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