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Archive Home > 2008 > July > 11 > Fueled by wood, but the driver wouldn’t recommend it

Fueled by wood, but the driver wouldn’t recommend it

By Kristen Hall-Geisler / The Bulletin
July 11, 2008

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could drive an SUV? About 25 pounds, says Robert Beam.

That’s how much wood it takes to fill the hopper of his 1988 Isuzu Trooper, which he has converted to run on wood chips.

Beam said that in the summer of 2005,....

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