It seems that everyone is interested in alternative fuel sources. So, I wanted to remind people of this story published  April 16, 1991 in the SUN tabloid.

URINECAR

An engineering genius who worked for one of the giant auto makers in Detroit says he's invented the answer to the energy crisis - a car that runs on human urine.

But Morris Wilhelm, 57, says the government and big business are trying to hush up his plans to produce cars fueld by human waste.

"I get threatening letters and phone calls every day from the big oil companies and auto manufacturers," complains Morris.

They're scared to death of my car because it means they won't make billions of dollars any more. But I want to help the United States. I don't want us to depend on any of those Middle East sheikhs or dictators for our energy. Now we can tell them all to go to hell!"

Morris began working on his "pee-mobile" auto, which he calls the Wilhelm, back in the late 70s when the energy crisis first hit America. He was fired from his high-salaried auto engineering job in 1983 by superiors who branded him a "lunatic" for his revolutionary ideas.

But he continued on his mission, completing the first urine-powered auto in January.

"It's really a very simple idea, based on the principles of nature," he says.

"It's the way the world works. The waste of one organism is the fuel of another. Growing grass feeds on steer manure. We breathe the oxygen that plants give off; they breathe the carbon dioxide we give off. Why is it so far-fetched that a machine could run on what the human body gives off?"

Morris' energy-saving engine feeds on the insoluble nitrogenous acid, salts, pigments and ammonia fumes in human urine.

"The beauty of this machine is its absolute efficiency," he boasts. "Most people stop at a service staion to fill their tanks and relieve themselves. Now this can be done anywhere and in one single time-saving action."

Morris says he's looking for several brave, "environment-conscious"

financial backers to help him mass produce the Wilhelm.

He says the four-cylinder models will sell for approximately $10,000.

What an idea whose time has not passed by. Not by a long shot. Is this being ignore just because they , the dreaded "theu" can not tax us on our own urine. But the winners that figure out how to collect this from us and sell it back to us for our cars and trucks would be a wealthy person.

Let's face it. Most of the well to do wouldn't dream of  collecting their urine much less discuss it with someone. So there will always be a market.