MetalAngel wrote:
I wasn't being super-serious with this thread, you know. It was amusing co-inky-dinks.
With regard to fuel, there's E85 which is 85% ethanol 15% gasoline/petrol, with the downside being less miles per gallon (but at the same time it doesn't pollute as much). It's popular already in some parts of Europe and especially Brazil (who have the climate to grow sugarcane, which is currently the best producing plant for it), which makes me imagine the service station in 10 or 15 years time will still have 'petrol' and 'diesel' pumps - albeit ones that dispense fuel with a very high proportion of ethanol/biodiesel respectively. In the meantime, I reckon the biodiesel pumps at service stations around the UK should be priced a bit cheaper to encourage people.
To put it very politely, there's massive, MASSIVE doubt about the environmental benefits of E85 or anything like it.
Starting with the fact that diverting land to grow "Petrol" for developing nations does nothing for the many, many countries with food problems.