Bio-Beetle Eco Rental Cars opens in L.A.

[Bio-Beetle]

This is in the shameless self promotion category. Please distribute at your pleasure. I apologize for posting across different forums.

The Grand Opening of the Los Angeles Bio-Beetle Eco Rental Cars office is this Tuesday, February 28. Open house from 10am to 2pm. All are invited. The press release is below.

Contact: Shaun Stenshol, Founder/President, Bio-Beetle Eco Rental Cars (310) 337-1729, email: info@bio-beetle.com, web site www.bio-beetle.com

What: Grand opening and open house. Shaun Stenshol and LA Bio-Beetle Representatives will be available for interviews and rides!

Where: Bio-Beetle Eco Rental Cars office, 9146 S. Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles. For directions call (310) 570-3896 or (310) 337-1729

When: 10am to 2pm – Tuesday, February 28, 2006,

Press Conference: 11:30am

VEGETABLE OIL powered rental cars
Debut in Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California – Bio-Beetle, Inc., a Maui, Hawaii based corporation, announces the debut of 100% biodiesel rental cars to California, beginning with their new office in Los Angeles. Bio-Beetle Eco Rental Cars is introducing diesel vehicles that will be powered solely by biodiesel, a diesel fuel made from vegetable oils. Bio-Beetle is the first and only rental car company in the world to offer rental cars fueled exclusively with biodiesel.

Bio-Beetle made its original debut on the Hawaiian island of Maui in January of 2003.

“Our goal is a sustainable society, and Bio-Beetle is a step in that direction, giving visitors and LA residents a renewable energy option when renting a car,” said Shaun Stenshol, Founder/President. “Or, as our slogan says, ‘Give the planet a vacation the next time you take one.’”

“Besides the obvious less polluting benefits Bio-Beetle Eco Rental Cars offer, the renter is saying that they would rather support American farmers than the oil industry and the wars that are fought for that oil, plus they are doing something pro active to help prevent things like drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and being part of oil spills like Exxon Valdez,” said Pamela Miedtke-Wolf, co-owner of Bio-Beetle.

Bio-Beetles are unmodified diesel Volkswagen Beetles, Jettas, and Passats. The weekly rental rates in Los Angeles will start at $199.

Biodiesel production in the U.S. was 75 million gallons in 2005. That’s up from 25 million gallons in 2004. Biodiesel is non-toxic in pure form (B100), biodegradable and significantly cuts emissions.

More information about Bio-Beetle can be found online at: www.bio-beetle.com. Please visit www.biodiesel.org for more information on biodiesel.
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5 New Beetles, 5 Golfs, 4 Jettas, 1 Passat, 1 Jeep Liberty
World's first dedicated biodiesel rentals
www.bio-beetle.com - Maui & Los Angeles

[Bio-Beetle]

Here is the first news story generated by our press release, in the Honolulu Star Bulletin. One small correction is that we have 12 rentals on Maui, not 8.

http://starbulletin.com/2006/02/25/b...s/story01.html

Edited to correct url for the news story.

[Alan From NYC]

Darn, if you'd only opened two weeks before!

Anyway, good luck in The Big Orange!

[Bio-Beetle]

Thanks, it should be fun.

[marvins_dad]

Next time we are in LA or Maui there better be a green beetle waiting for me

[Dorado]

Great news! Congrats! I hope it generates good publicity, and some well-informed debate about diesels in California...

TV ads are now gaga about ethanol, but if they do the research they will see that diesel engines with biodiesel make a lot more sense, and way more mpg's.

[Bio-Beetle]

I thought I would repost the news article, since I didn't post it correctly before.
http://starbulletin.com/2006/02/25/b...s/story01.html

Dorado - I agree, and can't wait until some auto maker starts selling diesel hybrids in the U.S. And we could use that ethanol to make biodiesel instead of methanol.

marvins_day - You may want to reserve a green Beetle well in advance tho