Alternative Energy, Before It Was Cool

I came across this on my computer today. Its the beginnings of a letter a friend and I were writing to McDonalds in January 2005. This was before it became cool to care about clean energy and not using foreign oil.

Read away:

Dear McDonalds,

McDonalds is a staple of American Culture, it is not just a chain of restaurants spanning across this great nation; it’s more than that. Like most Americans we are concerned for the well being of this great nation. While some put flags on their cars, we choose to support this Union by keeping the land green, water clear, and skies blue. Unlike so many others that expect someone else to step in and solve our problems we choose to fix them ourselves. One of greatest problems is our dependence on oil, not only does the combustion of petroleum products negatively impact our environment, but also our dependence on foreign sources is a national security threat. We plan on solving this problem by introducing Americans to alternate fuels, such as vegetable oil. While we are not the first to pioneer this method of powering normal diesel cars, we do wish to demonstrate its effectiveness to the American public.

We want to harness the pioneering sprit of Ray Kroc, as well as the success of the McDonalds Corporation. We need your help. We need startup funds, used vegetable oil, and your support. What we plan on doing is, in the sprit of the American road trip, going from Chicago, IL to Los Angeles, CA, stopping by McDonalds’ restaurants to refuel.

This would help show how environmentally friendly fuels are beneficial to everyone; we get fuel to power our car, while McDonalds puts its waste product to exceptionally good use. Aside from the sheer cost benefits, there is also the fact that burning waste vegetable oil is better for the air we all breathe.

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