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“What?” you ask, “Environmentalists escaping from Berkeley? That seems a bit paradoxical.” Well, the first-annual Escape from Berkeley relay which started this past Saturday challenges participants to get from Berkeley to Las Vegas by any means necessary, except with gasoline of course.
The vehicles (anything from car to tricycle to banana-mobile), departed from the Shipyard Labs in South Berkeley, and have until Monday to reach Vegas, weaving through Yosemite and Death Valley along the way. To help fuel the crusade for alternative energy sources (pun intended), competitors must scavenge for for any kind of liquid (we hear wood works too, actually) that will keep them moving.
“Crazy!” you say. “Why would people willingly put themselves through all this?” you ask. Well, not for the challenge or for environmental reasons, apparently. There’s five grand at stake, and we’d say that’s a good incentive to go green. Apparently of the six racers which set out Saturday, only four remained by the time they got to the first checkpoint. We just hope the other two racers weren’t stranded fuel-less somewhere in the desert …
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Relay Helps Fuel the Use Of Alternative Energy Forms [Daily Cal]
Tags:alternative energy, environmentalists, Escape from Berkeley, fuel
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