ibejim's Blog

Thats Right!!

Prince Charles has converted his beloved Aston Martin DB6  ( a 21st birthday present from the queen, nice eh?)  to run on surplus Btitish wine....

From:  Dailymail.com...

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...

Maybe Chollie is starting to do what so many green "hippycrites"  fail to do, Which is walking  the walk, not just talking the talk.

Heck, he's even got his cows burping and fartting less!

Sadly, like many "hippycrites" he has a long way to go.

" Do as I say, Not as I do!!...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-564215
/You-hippy-crites-When-comes-saving-planet-celebrities-
practise-preach.html