Source: Santa Cruz Sentinal
SANTA CRUZ -— Daryl Hannah stopped downtown Tuesday at the community television studio, bringing with her the 1979 Pontiac Trans Am she drove in Kill Bill.'
The actress and environmental activist appeared with local ecologist David Blume on Community TV's live call-in show "Eco-Review" to promote ethanol as an alternative energy source.
"Many, if not most, of the problems we face as a species come from the way that we produce our energy," Hannah said.
Last year she had the sports car converted to run off 85 percent ethanol, or E85, a move she says rebuts concerns from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency about using higher blends of ethanol.
Federal regulations limit the amount of ethanol per gallon of gas to 10 percent. The EPA is considering a waiver that would allow states to mandate an increase in the maximum alcohol fuel blend to 15 percent nationwide. Opponents of the E15 waiver cite safety concerns, namely corrosion and overheating, and some are skeptical of ethanol's environmental benefits.
