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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 08:37 AM
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Willie Nelson and BioWillie fuel - breaking the foreign oil addiction - Tonight on PBS
Curbing Our Addiction to Foreign Oil - Does Willie Nelson Have the Answer?
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t r u t h o u t | Programming Note

Airdate: Friday, January 12, 2007, at 8:30 p.m. on PBS.
(Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html.)

Willie Nelson and his mission to help America and American farmers. This time on NOW.
Can America grow its way out of its dependence on foreign oil? Country music legend Willie Nelson thinks so, and has a new twist on a 100-year-old idea that just may get us there. Nelson has introduced a new kind of crop-based diesel fuel he calls "BioWillie." Not only does BioWillie burn more cleanly than regular diesel, but it could give farmers a brand new market for their crops. On January 12 at 8:30 p.m., NOW talks with Nelson about this new trend in biofuels that is attracting the attention of farmers, environmentalists, and even some of the big energy giants as well.

"There's other places in the world have already made it happen, and you say, duh, why can't we do it here?" Nelson tells NOW. "Anywhere things can be grown that you can turn into fuel, do it."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011107U.shtml
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 08:48 AM
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1. If only cars ran on hemp oil...
Edited on Fri Jan-12-07 09:11 AM by kenny blankenship
Willie could solve our petro problems for us, like, yesterday. But BioWillie may prove to be a "gateway drug" to an even more insidious addiction: SolarWillie. The first one is always free.
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ms liberty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 09:22 AM
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2. K&R - Willie's cool. In fact, Willie may have invented cool. n/t
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-12-07 12:33 PM
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3. Agreed. When he paid for the plane for the Democratic reps in Texas....
to stay out of town to show their displeasure with the redistricting, he was aces in my book. And he's a NORML supporter! :yourock:
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