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Willie Nelson drives a Mercedes. And instead of using that super duper high-octane stuff at the pump, he uses an alternative fuel. Namely, used french fry oil. He’s even marketing the stuff, and it has a brand name, too: BioWillie<\/a>.<\/p>\n BioWillie is a type of biodiesel, a fuel that can be made from any number of crops and run in a normal diesel engine. If it sounds like a joke, a number of businesses, as well as city and state and county governments, have been switching their transportation fleets to biodiesel blends over the last year. The rationale is that it is a domestic fuel that can provide profit to farmers and that it will help the environment, though environmentalists are not universally enthusiastic about it.<\/p>\n “I knew we needed to have something that would keep us from being so dependent on foreign oil, and when I heard about biodiesel, a light come on, and I said, ‘Hey, here’s the future for the farmers, the future for the environment, the future for the truckers,” Mr. Nelson said in an interview this month. “It seems like that’s good for the whole world if we can start growing our own fuel instead of starting wars over it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Biodiesel sounds great! Imagine: instead of filling your tank at $2.20 a gallon (or whatever high price the oil companies want to charge today), you can pull into the back of your favorite McDonald’s, White Castle or MexiFry, and load up on Fryer Vat Leavins. Don’t restaruants normally have to pay some waste disposal company to cart off all the cooking oil they’ve used at the end of the day? You would think they’d LOVE to let someone load up their VW bug or other Diesel machine for free.<\/p>\n