Passover gasoline? Don’t be fooled!
I have a couple little Google Alerts set up to inform me of kosher-related news articles and blog entries, and this posting showed up today, about “kosher for Passover,” ethanol-free gasoline. For half a moment, I was seriously disturbed, then a quick Internet search brought up absolutely no authoritative links to the “Bergen County Jewish Times.” It looks like a few bloggers were tricked by this seasonal humor from Bangitout.com, but luckily Rabbi Mark Ankcorn sets the record straight for any remaining doubters.
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Thanks, man! Still funny, but important to have the disclaimer that it is in fact a hoax.
And the Ankcorn piece is hilarious. Good work.
not completely absurd though–I have a friend with a biodiesel car. He gets the biodiesel from the discarded cooking oil of a local restaurant. They fry breaded food in that oil, so there is chometz in his engine. Last year, he was worried about whether he would be able to drive the car during Chol HaMoed, as the chometz was sold… (the solution: add regular diesel to the fuel, rendering it no longer food and thus no longer chometz).
not completely absurd though–I have a friend with a biodiesel car. He gets the biodiesel from the discarded cooking oil of a local restaurant
A car that runs on leftover frying oil? That’s pretty amazing.
UPDATE: As seen in the Boston Sunday Globe, March 25. “No Kosher Gas“
The New York Times adds “fuel” to the fire with their April Fool’s piece on ethanol-free gas in Teaneck.