I'd bicycle beneath scores of coconut palms towering 50 feet and continue beyond the oxen-powered oil press and huge piles of coconuts ready for husking.
The company, an outgrowth of 15 years of research financed by Mr. Costner in reaction to the fouling of the Alaskan coastline by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil tanker spill, has developed high-powered oil-water separators that have been described as giant vacuum cleaners on barges.
The coffee table-worthy products include Andrew O. Hughes' geometric ashtray and lighter set that changes colour in the light and stacks into a sculptural piece when not in use; handmade porcelain pipes dipped in 22-karat gold care of The Pursuits of Happiness; a Tom Dixon brass-plated storage container; and USB-powered oil-slick lighters by Tribe of the Eastern Sun.
The fourth, powered by oil, electronics, aviation and mass production, is now rapidly winding down, if it has not gone already.
Just next to a gold, handmade, solar-powered model oil derrick at Baselworld this year, Jean-Marie Schaller, chief executive and creative director of Louis Moinet, presented a smaller, more intricate version of a pumpjack on the "petrol blue" dial of its newest timepiece.
An hour later, he spotted it: an old Blue Bird school bus, painted white and powered by vegetable oil.
Farm vehicles are powered by chip oil from the local village and locally felled wood supplies the stoves in the farmhouse.
Oil powered transportation is becoming the most important climate threat.
'It is yet another example of why this government should stop burying its head in the sand on this issue.' Symons said the Bush administration's close links to high-powered energy and oil companies was vital in understanding why climate change was received sceptically in the Oval Office.
All-electric bikes don't require the same maintenance as gasoline-powered bikes — including oil changes, air filter changes and frequent engine rebuilds — Dorresteyn noted.
The whole thing's powered by gas and oil that's about to run out.
