Veggie Van

Kaya and Joshua Tickell have it their way, powering their van with biodiesel fuel that’s part used cooking oil from fast food joints.

When Kaya and Joshua Tickell want a fill-up, they drive to the nearest fast food joint and ask for a helping of used vegetable oil, hold the fries. The Tickells take used cooking oil and turn it into clean-burning biodiesel fuel to power what they call their Veggie Van. Producer Bill George caught up with the pair on the road in Sarasota, Florida and has this sound portrait.