PAUL SIMS, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
STARKVILLE, Miss. – It began as a group trip out West, then evolved into an effort to travel using a fuel found in many kitchens in the country-waste vegetable oil. So far, they’ve found success.
Nine of the 11 people on the journey launched this past week met at Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science in Columbus and the other two met the rest through mutual acquaintances, said Louis Rosa, a recent graduate of Georgetown University with a degree in international business and a minor in Spanish from Tupelo.
“It started with a road trip to a music festival,” said Liz Kazal, a senior chemical engineering major at Mississippi State University from Ocean Springs.
However, tickets to the music festival near George, Wash. were sold out.
“After deciding we wanted to take a road trip, it turned into” getting a school bus so they could all travel together and have someplace to stay, Rosa said.
Once they came up with this idea, “we all had a uniting interest in alternative energy, so we definitely wanted to fold that into our trip,” he said.
“And thus comes the name W(e) VOW,’” said Cassandre Man-Bourdon, a recent graduate of MSU in biochemistry and microbiology from Ridgeland.
W(e) VOW is an acronym for Waste Veggie Oil Wagon.
It also “stands for us making that pledge to use alternative energy and go green,” said Man-Bourdon.
Group members wanted to take a road trip in such a way as to “leave behind an environment that people after us could also enjoy in the same way we did,” Rosa said.
Read complete article at Commercial Dispatch.
Recent comments