`Veg my ride’: Businesses turn old cars into green machines

MALIBU, Calif. (AP)
The petite 49-year-old business owner might be a car junkie, but she’s indulging her obsession without polluting the air by running her rides on biodiesel and other alternative fuels.

“I feel so superior driving next to a Hummer and going, ‘Dude, yo, look at this, this is what you should be doing,’” Brooks said.

With her earth-friendly car finder service, Biobling, Brooks is one of many entrepreneurs turning gas guzzlers into green machines as the interest in alternative fuel steadily spreads nationwide. Auto shops and online-based businesses are popping up in places as diverse as Maui, Hawaii, Louisville, Ky., Easthampton, Mass., offering do-it-yourself conversion kits, recycled vegetable oil, fuel delivery, and other services

Current concerns about climate change, high gasoline prices and uncertain availability of foreign oil have brought increased interest in alternative fuels.

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