{"id":5019,"date":"2003-10-01T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2003-10-01T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/leave-it-up-to-dominican-creativity\/"},"modified":"2003-10-01T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2003-10-01T01:43:56","slug":"leave-it-up-to-dominican-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/10\/01\/leave-it-up-to-dominican-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave it up to Dominican creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new industry has arisen as a result of the precarious energy situation: home-built generators using automotive engines. El Caribe reports that many businesses and families are turning to the locally-constructed generators that use old automobile engines as a source of power. Depending on the source of fuel (gasoline or diesel) and the size of the generator, these emergency generators can save between 50% and 75% of the cost of a comparable generator imported from abroad. Local builders use rebuilt automotive and light-truck engines and the readily available generators to assemble the units. The article in today&#8217;s El Caribe lists several of the vendors and their locations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new industry has arisen as a result of the precarious energy situation: home-built generators using automotive engines. El Caribe reports that many businesses and families are turning to the locally-constructed generators that use old automobile engines as a source of power. Depending on the source of fuel (gasoline or diesel) and the size of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2003\/10\/01\/leave-it-up-to-dominican-creativity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}