Country singer Willie Nelson has been a long-time supporter of the American family farm and for a while now he has also been an advocate alternative energy.  Willie was in New York recently to support the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance and sat down with Steve Hargeaves at CNN and shared his thoughts on home-grown biofuels:

"I saw where the farmers could actually benefit from growing their own fuel and we could benefit by not having to go around the world starting wars over energy," said the 74-year old musician from inside his tour bus on a recent stop in New York City. "You know, we could be growing our own energy at home."

"My wife, Annie, came to me and said, 'Hey, I want to buy this car that runs on vegetable oil,' and I was a little skeptical naturally," he said. "But she did. She bought a [diesel] Volkswagen Jetta. It ran so well on vegetable oil - clean running, good gas mileage - I bought a [diesel] Mercedes. I was sold."

"We don't have to send our money over to the Middle East to fill up our cars and trucks," he said. "We can send it to the farmer over here."

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