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Is Biowillie misleading customers?

Aug 27th 2007 5:01PM - 12 Comments

The video above shows Wilson Nelson, the face of Biowillie, saying truckers tell him they get better mileage with biodiesel. I have seen him say the same thing many times about Biowillie. I have heard the owner say the same thing as well. I just ...

BioWillie welcomed in Tennessee

Aug 12th 2006 9:01AM - 3 Comments

BioWillie is moving north. Willie Nelson's brand of B20 biodiesel is being sold for the first time in Tennessee. The inaugural station is the Mid-Tenn Auto and Truck Plaza in Cookeville, which is located between Knoxville and Nashville on Highway 70 ...

BioWillie has incentives to build plant in Kentucky

Dec 12th 2006 12:27PM - 2 Comments

Earth Biofuels, the producer and distributor of BioWillie biodiesel fuel, may build a production facility in Kentucky now that the state has approved $1 million in tax incentives and $120,000 in income tax refunds. The plant, tentatively planned for ...

BioWillie on Choctaw land; two Okalahoma travel plazas will offer biodiesel

Dec 29th 2006 9:38AM - 0 Comments

The Choctaw Nation (located in present-day Oklahoma) and Earth Biofuels recently announced that Willie Nelson's biodiesel would soon be available at two Choctaw Travel Plaza locations along I-75 and Highway 69. This is the first time a Native ...

Biodiesel provides hope to farmers, Willie Nelson on PBS' NOW

Jan 14th 2007 8:10PM - 2 Comments

Haven't heard enough from Willie Nelson on the subject of biodiesel and BioWillie? The PBS program NOW broadcast an interview with the Red-Header Stranger and David Brancaccio this weekend, and if you missed it, you can watch the show online at ...

Flickr biodiesel photos

Apr 23rd 2006 6:06PM - 2 Comments

Now and again here at AutoblogGreen, especially on weekends when people have a little bit of time to investigate a site on their own, we’ll take a peek at recent Flickr photos that have a green car technology theme to them. We’ll pick out ...

Earth Biofuels invests in Illinois' largest biodiesel plant

Sep 23rd 2006 2:57PM - 0 Comments

This post is for those of you who are really interested in the biodiesel industry. The news itself - that Earth Biofuels will invest five million dollars into a new company called Biodieesl Investment Group - is simple. But behind the news is a lot ...

Willie Nelson gets love from the EPA

Apr 23rd 2006 7:18PM - 0 Comments

The Soy Daily has the full text of the EPA Region 9’s statement this week honoring singer Willie Nelson for his work promoting biodiesel. As most readers are probably aware, Nelson has become one of the most prominent promoters of biodiesel in ...

Britney Spears, Pauly Shore to market biodiesel? Read it for yourself

Dec 14th 2006 9:20AM - 2 Comments

Apparently the popularity of BioWillie has motivated other celebrities to land lucrative endorsements with biofuel producers. Not only do they get some added publicity but also enhance their eco cred. In the case of Britney Spears it might help ...

Biodiesel truck-stop gets hotels, saloon and golf course courtesy of Willie Nelson

Aug 10th 2006 12:53PM - 1 Comment

Willie Nelson is part of a group investing $5 million to add hotels, a saloon, and a golf course to Carl's Corner, a Texas truck stop-town south of Dallas. Carl Cornelius, who incorporated the town in 1986 so he could sell alcohol in the otherwise ...

Click, or maybe it was Clack, says straight vegetable oil as a fuel is for the "wacko fringe"

Dec 24th 2006 1:49PM - 4 Comments

You all know Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the vaudeville act of auto advice. Also known as Click and Clack or the Tappet Brothers, the two have a talk show on NPR and a newspaper column. In their latest installment the brothers discuss biofuels. After ...

NPR's The Kitchen Sisters visit Carl's Corner

Aug 24th 2006 1:12PM - 1 Comment

If you want an entirely feel-good and reasonable listen into the biodiesel world at Carl's Corner (the first truck stop in America to sell biodiesel fuel), give this NPR story a try. It doesn't have a lot of fresh "news", but it's a great audio ...

Another source for biodiesel: liposuction fat

Dec 7th 2006 3:11PM - 45 Comments

Okay, who's going to be the first to contribute their flab to a gas pump? Beware, a Norwegian businessman wants the blubber out of your thighs and tummies. Apparently the company is after 3,000 gallons of human fat that is available every week from ...

Are Earth Biofuel's problems a preview of a dot-com-type bust?

Jan 4th 2007 3:12PM - 1 Comment

Forbes is digging deep into Earth Biofuels, the company that brought BioWillie to the market. According to a story in the latest issue, Earth missed a deadline for finding $80 million in financing to restart an ethanol plant. Based on financial ...

MTV's Pimp My Ride building 800hp biodiesel '65 Chevy Impala

Apr 11th 2007 3:03PM - 10 Comments

Just about the time that this blog burst forth upon the world last year, the cable channel that used to play music videos, started a thinkMTV campaign called "Break The Addiction". The 12 month long 12-step program aimed at breaking the addiction to ...

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