Cruising down the road with my foot on the gas, looking for a biodiesel pump is a pain in the —. Almost sounds like a not-ready-for-prime-time rap. What I’m driving at here is the use of the humble, but aesthetically pleasing, sunflower as one of the fuel source alternatives to America’s unquenchable thirst for motoring mojo. Biodiesel is the unconventional fuel blend from oil of various domestically grown, hopefully organic, seeds, beans, or vegetable waste, making its way away from the kitchen and into the gas tank. Why the gangly, colorful plant? Sunflowers have a high content of the ignitable lubricant we worship, ‘oil’, and can produce 600 pounds of that super slippery stuff per acre, more than the ubiquitous soybean, (according to The National Sunflower Association.) So, get your motor running, head out on the highway, looking for the next alternative fuel adventure.

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