{"id":2258,"date":"2006-03-30T11:43:19","date_gmt":"2006-03-30T11:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2006-03-30T11:43:19","modified_gmt":"2006-03-30T11:43:19","slug":"fill_your_tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2258","title":{"rendered":"Fill Your Tank With Vegetable Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moneycentral.msn.com\/content\/Savinganddebt\/Saveonacar\/P115218.asp\">Jim Washburn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>One day last year, my musician friend Jonathan drove up in a Mercedes. This was odd, since Jonathan is so resolutely counterculture that he once tried recording an album in the woods, without electricity. <\/p>\n<p>His car&#8217;s exhaust smelled faintly of french fries, and therein lay the explanation: The new Jonathan Richman tour vehicle &#8212; an &#8217;84 300D Turbo &#8212; was running on vegetable oil-derived biodiesel fuel as he and his drummer crisscrossed the nation in it, a deep fryer on wheels.<\/p>\n<p>I was intrigued: Biodiesel comes from renewable resources. It&#8217;s made from soybeans, corn or other oil crops, saving America&#8217;s farmers. Or it comes from recycled kitchen grease, saving America&#8217;s sewers. It pollutes remarkably less than petroleum fuel, and could potentially make the U.S. energy self-sufficient, freed from bargaining with dictators and terror-sponsor states. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Washburn: One day last year, my musician friend Jonathan drove up in a Mercedes. This was odd, since Jonathan is so resolutely counterculture that he once tried recording an album in the woods, without electricity. His car&#8217;s exhaust smelled faintly of french fries, and therein lay the explanation: The new Jonathan Richman tour vehicle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}