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Article: Bio-gas bluegrass.(News: dispatches from around the world about healthy, sustainable living)
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- Natural Life
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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A San Francisco Bay Area-based bluegrass group called the Hot Buttered Rum String Band is committed to using its music as a vehicle to encourage grassroots environmental, social, and political change. And that vehicle just happens to be vegetable oil-fueled.
The Bio-Bus, a diesel school-bus converted to run on recycled vegetable oil (RVO), was purchased from students at Middlebury College in Vermont on eBay last summer. It has been used to tour the band across the country ever since, to promote its latest CD In These Parts, released in December 2003.
Band member Zac Matthews says, "We oppose the environmental degradation resulting from fossil fuel use, ...