MAX Update No. 66: Go With the Flo

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Jan Steinman wrote this comment to MAX Update No. 65: Measuring Fuel by the Tablespoon:

“If you’re REALLY into precision measurement, look to the marine industry. Veggie Van Gogh uses a FloScan 9000. This device employs tiny turbines in the fuel line to accurately measure fuel use. It even has a NEMA interface to a GPS, so you can see your instantaneous fuel economy! That has changed the way I drive!”

Now I think Veggie Van Gogh is very cool. It’s a snack van converted to a long distance camper/warehouse/workshop, it’s powered by a four cylinder turbocharged Cummins diesel engine which has been converted to run waste vegetable oil. Jan and his accomplice Carol criss-cross the country, selling their wares at craft fairs, and they couldn’t afford their gypsy lifestyle if they were buying and burning petrodiesel. Necessity is a mother, as the saying goes, and so Veggie Van Gogh was born.

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