Me And My Motors: Daryl Hannah
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Published: January 22, 2008
Start talking to Daryl Hannah about environmentally friendly motoring and you’re in for a lengthy discussion. The 46-year-old actress, best remembered as a mermaid in Splash and as an assassin in the Kill Bill trilogy, took part in the Gumball 3000 rally, alongside Quentin Tarantino and packed nearly 350 litres of biodiesel into the rear of her pink Project Kahn Range Rover.
Hannah is adamant biodiesel is a feasible alternative to conventional fuels. It can be blended with normal diesel fuel or used pure, though the latter requires slight engine modification.
“The great thing about running 100% vegetable oil is that the small amount of carbon gases coming out of your exhaust is the same amount the plants that made your fuel took out of the atmosphere when they were growing in the first place,” says the Hollywood actress.
“So it’s a carbon-neutral pollutant – you are not damaging the environment in any way with a convoluted logic. It has a toxicity level somewhere between table salt and maple syrup, so you can carry it around, as we have been doing. It’s not flammable – if you drop a match in it, it will just go out.”
So what does her friend Quentin Tarantino make of her convictions? “He’s such a typical teenage boy; he’s always saying to me, ‘What are you doing using vegetable oil, Daryl? Come on!’
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