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Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @11:22AM from the unsafe-at-any-speed dept.

19061969 writes "Bucking the trend for heavy-weight SUVs, a mayor in the Philippines has commissioned a range of bamboo vehicles. According to the blurb, the taxis also run on coconut biodiesel, even have a stereo sound system and help the local economy by being largely locally produced. Is this the future of mass transportation?"

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Hemp taxis next? (Score:1)

by bigtone78 ( 943249 ) writes:

Whoa dude, what if you could like totally make taxis out of hemp?

I guess Cheech and Chong were just ahead of the times.

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