By sheer coincidence, NPR's "Car Talk" guys had a caller of German descent
on last weekend who, during WW II, was fleeing the Russians in a car that
ran on wood chips. Every so often, they would stop at a lumber yard and
fill up the car with wood chips to run the engine on. Of course, Tom and
Ray made much light of this, and I thought it was their usual clowning
around. They couldn't quite figure out how this would work. Now I see
that stanger things do happen.
Carl Barna
Regional Historian
BLM Colorado State Office