Thanks to a $ 274,000 grant from the Federal Railroad Administration , Amtrak will before long run itsHeartland Flyerrail line of products on boeuf spin-off biodiesel for a 12 - calendar month trial period . plainly , the Heartland Flyer needs a new , titter - worthy name .
The Heartland Flyer – which course from Oklahoma City to Forth Worth – will hightail it on combustible moo juice sometime in the next year . According toFast Company :
The train , which run on 80 % regular diesel and 20 % beef - free-base biofuel from a Texas vendor , is running for the next 12 months courtesy of a $ 274,000 grant from the Federal Railroad Administration [ … ] Amtrak tell that the moo-cow tallow ( read : rendered fat from cattle ) fuel reduces hydrocarbon and carbon copy monoxide expelling by 10 % , cut down on particulate by 15 % , and reduces sulfates by 20 % compared to standard Rudolf Diesel .
Unsurprisingly , PETA was less than impressed .
“ The resolution to pollution is not to use the earth up remains of tortured animals for fuel . Anything using brute remains is go to be both depleting of and foul of our environs , ” explain Bruce Friedrich , PETA ’s VP for Policy .
– The Screaming Beef Locomotive
– The Veal Jackhammer
– The Deep South Bovine Bullet
– The Leather - fuel Prairie Tickler
– The Red Raw Rocket
– The Longhorn Leg Lurcher
– The Slaughterhouse On wheel
– The Mobile Death Rodeo
– The “ We secernate You Old Bessie go To The Big Farm In The Sky , But We lie Son , We lie in ” Train
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