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My, arent they so much better than the rest of us commoners that just have regular RV's. I think I'll drive mine to work today just to run some gas through it.

Bless their little hearts.

Poor kid.

Everyone says how vegetable oil is so cheap - well, it wont be for long if more and more people start using it. In which case as demand rises, so will the price. Some places had problems with people stealing the stuff when gasoline went over $4/gallon. Probably not these days as prices are under $2 gallon in some places for good old fashioned gasoline.

I guess they better stick to warmer climates as heating that thing could get really expensive.

A lesson for the liberals: We really don't mind when you do stuff like this. You want to live in a cramped little RV with Bamboo floors - fine. Knock yourselves out. You want to spend an hour at McDonald's begging for used French Fry grease - go for it. (Though if everyone did this, there'd be no one who could afford to buy French Fries, and you'd be SOL..)

The problem is when, after screaming "stop inflicting your morality on me, you Christian!" you try to force everyone else to live the way you want to live.

You know, inflicting your morals on everyone else.

Naqamel,

You beat me to it.

If they want to live like that, more power to them. I have no problem whatsoever with someone living a life that makes them happy, so long as it doesn't bother anyone else.
When you start trying to force it on others it becomes a problem.

(I know I won't fit everyone's mold...sorry, Libertarian.)

Harris - I'm a small 'l' libertarian conservative. The Libertarian Party just has too many issues I disagree with for me to support. Granted, in a local race if there's just a Libertarian and a Democrat running, I'll vote Libertarian, but the LP as a whole just doesn't fit my views.

Personally, I find the Libertarian Party's Isolationist Foreign Policy to be extremely short sighted in the era of Intercontinental Ballistic Missles, and the Libertarian Party is Pro-Choice, and I'm as Pro-Life as Sarah Palin.

You sound like me. Unfortunately I have been unable to find a party that fits me to a 'T', and the Libertarians seem to be the closest thing. Some of their stuff is a little off-target, I will concede.

Whenever someone brings up bamboo as a "green" material, I want to ask them how much fuel was burned to bring it over on a ship from China.

If I owned a MickeyDee, I'd charge 'em for the old oil and lower the price of the fries accordingly.
Sell more fries, sell more oil, sell more fries, sell more oil....
Either way, get that loony trailer out of my parking lot!

Only in the world of moonbattery would someone dream up the idea of conserving a natural resource that literally falls from the sky.

why does "vegetable" have only one "g", yet "veggie" has two?

i'll never figure those pesky moonbats out!

p.s. - i wouldn't think moonbats would be high on fried foods...

nanc: You just reminded me of an extremely important question - do they run their RV on oil that does not have any trans fats, or should we call them hypocrites? ;)

they should probably use peanut oil as it has the highest heat ratings for frying and can be used much longer than conventional cooking oils and at $5.00 a gallon, quite a steal!

of course, if they REALLY wanted to do the rest of u.s. a favor, they'd reduce their carbon credits even further and just go live in a cave and eat wild berries.

I'll commend them, they actually are practicing what they preach. Normally these people have a regular SUV, large home in the suburbs full of flatscreen TV's, and computers while claiming we shouldn't burn coal, or drill for oil etc.

Only moonbats would celebrate living at 3rd world standards.

WAIT JUST A MINUTE! Someone should be coming after them soon to collect a fuel tax.

http://www.herald-review.com/articles/2007/03/01/news/local_news/1021491.txt

i'll bet all eight or ten of their tires are made from petroleum products...

since they appear mobile, I wonder in how many states were they registered to vote & what address did they use to get their absentee ballots?

(make sure Al Frankin gets to counts their vote)

Janssen, a 31-year old photographer who also works for her father, a developer of franchises for Cold Stone Creamery.

So, basically, if your parents worked hard and made enough money to leave a trust fund large enough to finance your lifestyle... you're free to go around lecturing people with actual jobs about 'sustainability.'

Let the hippies tour around in their vegie (just for you, nanc) bus; doesn't seem like they're interfering with anyone else.

Naqamel and Harris, and anyone else seeking a new party, you might consider looking into The Modern Whig Party.

AAARG! Progress, change and sustainable living makes Mongo angry!!!! AAAAARGH! You knuckleheads crack me up!

Heh, you'd have to be pretty thick to mistake ridicule for anger.

Don't think for one second that I could care any less about what these dim bulbs are doing besides providing me with a slight chuckle.

Stone Cold Creamery has been in the news lately for shutting down stores with the slow economy and screwing it's franchisees with "costly lease, promotional couponing and mandated purchases of excessive and expensive ingredients" and "placing new stores too close to old ones, which hurt sales. Many times, this led to inexperienced franchisees buying into bad situations."

http://www.nuwireinvestor.com/articles/cold-stone-franchises-cooling-off-51771.aspx

Sounds to me like Sara is living off evil corporate greed from the ice cream version of McDonald's. I say she must give it all back to the people and common good and live in a mudshack per The Goracle.
Most EkoHypocrites I know still drive around in their oil burning/smoking 70's Buick Delta 88 with a GreenPeace bumper sticker on it.

I read where recently convicted eco-radical TRE-ARROW changed his name becuase the TREES TOLD HIM TO DO IT its like JOHN ROBBINS of the BASKIN ROBBINS ICE CREAM wrote a book DIET FOR A NEW AMERICA about strick veggetarianism WAS BEAMED TO HIM BY A GIANT TALKING COW AND PIG showing some of these eco-wackos are losing their minds becuase they have spent too much time to wackyland

When Al Gore, Arnold Schwarzeneggar, Nancy Pelosi, and Arianna Hiffongton ditch their massive mansions and corporate jets and start living what they preach for others ... then maybe I'll take seriously this Eco-Religion of Sustainability they are pushing.

Or just do themselves in...aren't we constantly being told by econuts that there are too many people on this earth?

Oops...my comment was in answer to Nancy's comment about living in caves and eating berries. That part of my comment was eaten up by the site.

This is just stupid. Bio-fuels are stupid. It's better than funding the Saudi royal family, but nothing about it is better for the environment or our health.

There are prototype cars that exist at this very minute, all you have to do is pour water in it, and it runs.

No more inhaling benzene and carbon-monoxide every time you walk along the street.

Regardless of global warming, we are going to run out of oil sooner rather than later, and moving forward on this kind of technology would reinvigorate the American economy and help us maintain our position as leaders in the world.

Is that to only place they live in, or do they also own a house?

There was a documentary on PBS (where else?)about a group of Brits, 20 or so, that tried to live in an Iron Age village with all of the amenities and luxuries of the Iron Age in Britain.
Some of these Earth loving, progress hating folks ought to give the lifestyle a try.
Who's going to slaughter the pig? Who's going to schlep the water a 1/2 mile every morning?
Before long they were all pissing each other off (offending) and doing their own thing...
Lord of the Flies with adults.

"There are prototype cars that exist at this very minute, all you have to do is pour water in it, and it runs."

Because of droughts twenty years ago, Florida has a water shortage. Are we supposed to pour SALT WATER into our engines? However, there are huge deposits of oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico, as close as 25 miles from Florida. One of the biggest off-shore gas deposit in North America is just south of Pensacola.

Is it OK with you if we use that?

Just pour water in it and it runs? There's something you might want to look into. The law of thermodynamics, which makes that impossible.

It runs on water,ok but how fast is it? To paraphrase Radar, it's a one hour walk or two hours if we take the car. How big is the car? Will it fit in the back of my gas burning F150?

I'll bet they dump the motor oil into the storm drain to save money.

Wanna bet. I know lots of these types in CA who do one little thing to claim they are green, that results in a far worse environmental footprint than they would have otherwise.

The bamboo is a great example.

So are Prius batteries. That nightmare will start happening next year as many Prius start wearing out.

Well, using vegetable oil for fuel is better than eating it, I suppose.

Hey in REDDING CALIFORNIA the price for gasoline is $1:99 and in KANSAS CITY its $1:80 so that stupid doofus on his silly bicycle CAN GO PEDDLE IT UP THE SIDE OF MOUNT CRUMPET THEN HE AND GO WITH THE LOAD TO THE TIP-TOP AND DUMP IT WITH HIM STILL PEDDLING

OMG! I saw this Eco-Hippie-Heap on the highway. It was belching smoke like an old steam locomotive. I am sure the neo-hippie-trust-fund morons thing their Air Pollution is acceptable.

Snarl! Growl! Woof! Arrrrrrrrrooooooooo! Blargh! Blargh! Yargh! Geeyahhh!

You may find the following links informative...

http://intelstrike.com/?p=150

http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idarticle=9469

http://motls.blogspot.com/2006/05/global-warming-on-jupiter.html

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/globalwarming.html (This guy is truther and Chairman O fanatic but has some sense when it comes to the GW hoax.)

Everyone says how vegetable oil is so cheap - well, it wont be for long if more and more people start using it.

Posted by: Name at November 18, 2008 8:27 AM

It already ain't. That's why the biofuels industry is barely getting off the ground (in places like SE Asia where they use palm oil) except where governments are mandating it. Pretty much the only exception is Brazil because they literally have more sugar cane than they can really use.

Progress, change and sustainable living makes Mongo angry!!!!

Posted by: MongoTheRepublican at November 18, 2008 12:16 PM

I totally agree Mongo! Damn Reichwing ignoramusses. These REthugs will never understand as we progressives do that empty slogans are all that is needed to sate a progressive's fondest desires. How unenlightened of them to demand substance to back up rhetoric!

what happens when the oil runs out?

everything we associate with modern life collapses.

great. i'm sure our children will appreciate us for the world we brought them into.

smokeTNT, there's something you might want to look into: hydrogen fuel cells. this car is already equipped with the electrical rods to seperate the hydrogen from the oxygen.

who knows how fast it runs? it's fledgling technology...like the old computers with vacuum tubes. eventually they will work just like normal cars, and you can install an engine like this in your ford chassis, if that makes you feel more comfortable :)

as far as using sea water, the human mind is an amazing thing. a filter or something that uses the heat of the engine to boil out steam could probably be designed...or we just build off-shore wind farms to power purifying plants.

or maybe something entirely different comes along.

the point is: the oil will run out and nobody knows when. why are we clinging to an obsolete technology that's funding terrorists, polluting our air, and possibly contributing to an ice age? let's move on.

Wow, you people suck. Don't know how I found this little dark pocket of ignorance.....but wow. Your hatred of SCIENCE/CULTURE/HUMANITY will soon be the end of you and me.

Peopel we haven't scene nothing yet,the Bible expressley says that people get worse, evil will increase in the land the stage is being set for the anti-christ. Jesus is coming and the church is almost ready, they have been doing the fathers will keeping his commandments, feeding the hungry, clothing the nakes, witnessing and so on. Now is the time for people to repent and come to Jesus before it is to late, on judgment day there is no second chance. There is a website called (blue letter bible) You can study the bible right at your finger tips, type in any topic like; last day, homosexual, hell, sin, wicked. Learn the bible for yourself. Pray ask God to give you is understanding. Jesus said "if you seek me you will find me". May God bless you

Fools. I'll bet they think meat is murder.

If they really wanted to be low impact they could travel in a horse-drawn vardo. Not as sexy as an RV, but they wouldn't need to scrounge used grease along the way.

Coldstone is closing stores? Pity. They make buying ice cream such a surreal experience. You enter the store and are greeted by (way too many servers shouting),"HI! WELCOME TO COLDSTONE!!!" Should you tip them, you get a song. "We got a tip! We got a tip!!"

Brain freeze, the musical.

I like the fact that the family is "Sara and Matt Janssen." Apparently Matt took his wife's name. Which leaves me the impression that since her family has the money, she makes all the decisions and she came up with the idea of not working and travelling the Country. And we all thought Paris Hilton was a brat.

What they realy need its the peddle car from GILLIGANS ISLAND or the one from THE FLINTSTONES but stopping will leave your feet sore

Ya know all these comments miss the biiig picture. When I go in my 6 mpg RV I want to get away. I've been at places that had these types parked next to me and they were so annoying and full of themselves. They lit the BBQ with lighter fluid and were amazed that I had a charcoal stove that uses news paper.(another limited resource) They were all over where to get one. I'm driving mine for the rest of the week. p.s. that looks to be about a 70k rv. I bought mine used with 36k and only paid $6500.00
I figure I can get alotta miles with the balance.

go to the website on the bus.
YOU CAN DONATE TO THEM!!!!!!!
I'm rv'n for the rest of the month now.
36' 454cid GAS!

Wow...so nice to join all of you. I'd be delighted to clarify on some of your questions:

We are legally registered in South Dakota, where they are friendly towards full time travelers. We did vote via absentee ballot.

I do work for my dad now in an administrative position, but during the tour last year, we worked very hard freelancing to make ends meet. We live very simply even now. My family does not "have money"...they have worked hard to support 5 children throughout the years.

No, my husband did not take my name :)

Unless you are currently running on WVO, I would suspect that you really don't know much about it. With that said, there is NO biofuel that is perfect. We just wanted to do better than gas...which we did. Walking around the country would have been much better, no? Maybe next time.

As many of you pointed out, life is not perfect. Our tires are made of the same material that your tires are made out of. Yes, the bamboo is probably from China. However, it was sustainably harvested.

We did not do this tour to evangelize, or to convert people to our way of thinking. We did it to make connections with blog readers that I had become friends with over the years. It just happened that traveling on a waste product is very interesting to people, so we let people take a peek into our life.

I'm sure my response won't change any of your minds...but I wanted to remind you to be kind and gentle in your words towards others. We are real people...with feelings.

Oh, and that's not a picture of us.

Peace...
Sara