The Daily Mail provides yet another example of the lengths to which Royalty will go to assist us all.
Prince Charles converts his beloved Aston Martin to a green machine... run on English wine
It is certainly a vintage vehicle. And now Prince Charles's beloved Aston Martin DB6 is running on vintage too. A nice little white from a vineyard in Wiltshire, to be precise. As part of cutting his carbon footprint, the prince has converted the 38-year-old classic car - a 21st birthday present from the Queen - to run on 100 per cent bioethanol fuel distilled from surplus British wine.
Aides said this was partly due to the pattern of Royal trips set by the Foreign Office. He has now doubled the target to a 25 per cent fall in emissions by 2018. Converting the Aston Martin played a small but symbolic role. The Prince's chief aide Sir Michael Peat said: 'Charles only travelled two or three hundred miles a year in the Aston but he wanted it to be environmentally friendly. It just happened that our bioethanol supplier makes the fuel from surplus English wine.'The car - which is kept at Highgrove and clocks up just 300 miles a year - averages ten miles a gallon, the equivalent of 4.5 bottles of wine for every mile. At £1.10 a litre, the bioethanol is only slightly cheaper than conventional petrol, but is estimated to produce 85 per cent less carbon dioxide.
The grapes used for Charles's fuel have already been fermented into wine on an English vineyard near Swindon, Wiltshire. Its owners bottle all they can, but cannot produce more than their EU quota. Rather than destroy the excess, the vineyard now sells it to the Gloucestershire biofuels supplier Green Fuels, where it is distilled.The green prince has also introduced a raft of environmentally-friendly measures at his homes, such as reed bed sewage systems and wood-chip boilers at Highgrove and Birkhall, his Scottish residence. He even tries to have his cows fed on grass rather than grain - to cut their flatulence and minimise their emission of the greenhouse gas methane.
16 comments:
Yeah Baby, Environmental for Thee, but not for me.
Why smell as good as a Ditto Machine
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Somehow the Battenburg pool produced this adenoidal dope.
What next? Clotted cream and Stilton for lubrication?
Oh lets get in a circle around a fake campfire and sing kum buy ya! I steill can't believe that people buy this shit!!!!! I am sick of the supposed care for our world, but these are the same people that will pat you on the back and piss on your leg at the same time.
Kini, nice link. The mimeograph machine is one of my sweetest schoolboy memories.
Rhod, I suspect a freakish French grouse thrasher is somehow involved.
Mango, that reminds me of a girl I used to date.
Ah, the smell of mimeo chemicals hot off the rollers!
And for that,Nickie, the Prince will need to wear his wool Kangol grouser headgear and nothing else.
Hey, at least there are SOME congressmen who wouldn't dignify us by pissing on our legs. Remember Pete Stark's unine comment?
varoooooooooom!!! been busy..tryin to catch up!:)
Rhod... Thanks for yet another image I may never fully remove from my memory.
Opie, it's true. Pete is a populist saint. Let's hope he's on the ticket with Obama in 2012.
Woman...
Live in the present. Enjoy the moment.
I've converted my Hummer to run on the blood of baby fur seals, plastic cups, the organs of donors without proper health coverage, and the hopes and dreams of persons dwelling in third world countries. I get great gas mileage and a euphoric satisfaction that simply cannot be described.
Try the high-octane high-fructose/trans-fat blend. Your engine will purr.
Frankly, I think its fantastic that Prince Charles' car runs on the same stuff I do.
Its nice to know I have something in common with the royals : )
Cute, Powdie. Bottoms up!
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