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They lie!

You know those directions Web sites - and the travel times they give you about how long it takes to drive somewhere? They lie! In Winslow, Arizona, Cody McCloy and co-pilot Brian Hardy visit a statue...

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Road trippers review GPS units

It's Day Ten of our California-to-Georgia road trip in our biofueled International Harvester Scout. We've paused in Fort Worth, Texas, providing me with an opportunity to review a couple of loaner GPS...

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I felt like a fish in an oven

Our cross-country road trip using biodiesel fuel motors on toward New Orleans, Louisiana. Brian Hardy and I rest after broadcasting Wednesday on CNN.com Live. After we over-nighted in Fort Worth,...

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Rollin''n bloggin'

As we blog, at this moment, we're pushing the 1978 Scout past Alexandria, Louisiana, en route to New Orleans. I probably shouldn't take pictures of Brian while I'm driving. This is our sixth state on...

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Ole Miss, here we come

Our rolling, unscientific biofuel experiment has crossed into the great state of Mississippi – rocketing (joke) toward Oxford and the University of Mississippi. New Orleans on Thursday. Behind us, New...

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Price: Gas versus 'bio'

Note to "S Callahan" who asked in our comments what kind of money are we spending on biodiesel in comparison to typical gasoline: We filled up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with B20. Since we've mostly...

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Where's Willie?

As we approached exit 211 off I-55 near Coffeeville, Mississippi, we saw a billboard for a "Bio Willie" station - the biofuel store chain started by musician Willie Nelson. We didn't see Willie Nelson...

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'Soul-wrenching weeks' about to end

After two long, soul-wrenching weeks we're finally about to head home. This trip has been amazing. Our Scout sits Friday in front of The Lyceum at Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi. I've met people I...

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All over but the napping

Well... here we are. We made it back to Atlanta in (mostly) one piece after a two-week journey I'll never forget. This morning my colleague Brian Hardy and I did a little recap video interview with...

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California regulators rile ethanol producers

Some ethanol producers are unhappy with California's proposed low carbon fuel standards. California wants to take a big-picture look at decreasing carbon emissions from transportation, and in doing...

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