{"id":943,"date":"2005-01-15T10:28:51","date_gmt":"2005-01-15T10:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=943"},"modified":"2005-01-15T10:28:51","modified_gmt":"2005-01-15T10:28:51","slug":"biodiesel_willi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"Biodiesel &#038; Willie Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,1282,66288,00.html\">Wired News:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;There is really no need going around starting wars over oil. We have it here at home. We have the necessary product, the farmers can grow it,&#8221; said Nelson, who organized Farm Aid two decades ago to draw attention to the plight of American agriculture.<br \/>\nNelson told The Associated Press in an interview last week that he began learning about the product a few years ago after his wife purchased a biodiesel-burning car in Hawaii, where the star has a home.<br \/>\n&#8220;I got on the computer and punched in biodiesel and found out this could be the future,&#8221; said Nelson, who now uses the fuel for his cars and tour buses.<br \/>\nPeter Bell, a Texas biodiesel supplier, struck up a friendship with Nelson after filling up one of the tour buses, and the business partnership came together just before Christmas.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Fat links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alltheweb.com\/search?cat=web&amp;cs=iso88591&amp;q=biodiesel&amp;rys=0&amp;_sb_lang=pref\">alltheweb<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=biodiesel\">Clusty<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=biodiesel&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">Google<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/search.msn.com\/results.aspx?FORM=SRCHWB&amp;q=biodiesel\">MSN<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/s.teoma.com\/search?q=biodiesel&amp;qcat=1&amp;qsrc=0&amp;Search.x=40&amp;Search.y=7&amp;Search=submit\">Teoma<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?ei=UTF-8&amp;fr=sfp&amp;p=biodiesel\">Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired News: &#8220;There is really no need going around starting wars over oil. We have it here at home. We have the necessary product, the farmers can grow it,&#8221; said Nelson, who organized Farm Aid two decades ago to draw attention to the plight of American agriculture. Nelson told The Associated Press in an interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}