KUDZU!!!

[charlie and algernon]

Leafy, invasive, irritating kudzu could be NASCAR's fuel of the future
http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/cup/columns/story?columnist=mcgee_ryan&id=3461697&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab3pos1

It's been a long, hot summer thus far for the NASCAR brass. Skyrocketing fuel prices are keeping fans away from the track, and as America steams toward a seemingly inevitable future without internal combustion engines, racing's leaders are privately worried about losing their carburetor-infused identity.

"The coolest thing about these cars is the noise," three-time Cup champ-turned-TV analyst Darrell Waltrip says. "Forty-three electric cars rolling by going 'weeeeeee' just isn't all that cool."

That's more, the gap between the sport's stars and its fans appears to be widening, while league chairman Brian France continues to openly express concern that NASCAR is losing touch with "its roots."

But now news has arrived that could solve both those problems with one sweep of the weed eater. It's a green solution that could wean the sport off its dependency on oil and allow it to reconnect with its southern blue-collar past all at the same time. A fuel source that is cheap, is easy to find and, as we have just learned, can produce ethanol, the same loud, fast gas that currently powers the Indy Racing League.

Kudzu.

Or, as it is often referred to in the South: @#$! kudzu!

[madinmaryland]

1. It's going places.

[charlie and algernon]

2. it is

Soon Kudzu stations will blanket the nation

[KamaAina]

3. I'm bullish on it.

I'm planning to invest three brazillion dollars in kudzu stock, in fact.

[madinmaryland]

10. Is that the same as three thousand cotillion dollars? And I still am waiting

for an answer as to how much a cotillion is.

:hi:

[KamaAina]

11. Actually, I think it converts to three thousand cotillion euros

:shrug:

[madinmaryland]

13. Given the weak dollar, I think it's only about 1500-2000 cotillion euros!!1!!

:rofl:

[texanwitch]

4. One day soon we will be glad for kudzu.

I will be proud to say I am going to the kudzu staion to fill the tank.

Kudzu is good for other things as well.

Kudzu will save the nation, don't laugh it will.

[charlie and algernon]

5. idk what's scarier

that Kudzu, or NASCAR will be known for saving the nation, LOL

[texanwitch]

9. If kudzu can be used for fuel we should use it.

Think of the jobs that could be created.

The way kudzu grows who needs the middle east anymore.

[SCantiGOP]

6. I live in the kudzu capital of the south

I have a vacant lot next to me in Columbia SC and I have to cut the crap every week or it will start climbing into my bushes and trees. If it becomes a fuel source, South Carolina will be the next Saudi Arabia.

[charlie and algernon]

7. "South Carolina will be the next Saudi Arabia."

that line made me :spray:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

8. Pipe dream... wishful thinking

trying to hang on to a dying way of life

Kudzu

[sarge43]

12. Sentences you thought you'd never read.

"Fill her up with Kudzu Supreme."

"I'm going places with Kudzu."

"Kudzu: Go everywhere with it."