It's All About Gas

Absolutely no room for angst? Alright...

I did a story on gas price. I went downtown and randomly looked for anyone who has a car to interview. I found a lady by the city hall and she told me one thing that was very interesting that didn't make it into my story - Destiny USA has gone back to B-20 again. B-20 is the name of the biodiesel Destiny started off using a while ago. The 20 indicates that the diesel is a blend of 20% fuel from soybean and 80% traditional petroleum. Then it went up to B-50, then eventually B-100. Destiny made a huge deal about it and made sure everyone in town know how environmentally friendly they are. A spokesperson even said they believe they were doing the right thing and there's absolutely "no drawback." The lady I talked to used to work for Destiny, and she said the reason that Destiny has gone back down to B-20 has something to do with fuel not working well with the winter weather here, but this time they kept low profile and not everyone knows about it.

By the way, it turns out that you have to go through the corporate and some serious paper work if you want to do any forms of recording at a gas station, and by any form I mean both audio and visual recording. You can't even interview people there! So heads up if you ever want to do a story on gas prices and want to talk with car owners. You're better off finding a random pedestrian on the street and ask him/her if (s)he has a car than almost getting flipped out on at a gas station.