Dallas gas station goes green as biodiesel ecovenience store

WFAA Dallas-Ft. Worth Channel 8
03:21 PM CDT on Tuesday, June 10, 2008
By AARON CHIMBEL / WFAA Mobile Journalist

DALLAS -- Take one part Whole Foods Market, one part 7-Eleven, mix in a bit of Carl's Corner and put it on a busy street near White Rock Lake and you have the Green Spot.

"Very surprised. I didn't expect this at all here," says customer Rod Stasick. "Usually you go into a place and it has a lot of junk food and there's not any junk food in here at all."

Most convenience stores don't have fair trade organic coffee, compostable corn cups to fill-up with natural soda, among a vast selection of health food.

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