Straw Converted to Gasohol in Canada 74
An anonymous reader writes "The Government of Canada announced that its vehicle fleet is the first in the world to use cellulose-based ethanol. Iogen Corporation produces the ethanol from wheat straw at its leading-edge demonstration facility in Ottawa."
That does it. I'm moving back to the U.S. (Score:4, Funny)
I'll never know when I'll go to sleep one night and wake up in a gas tank on a highway in Hamilton, Ontario, powering a Pontiac Firefly. I'm sure I'll have nightmares of this "straw to fuel" scheme. It took me years to get over nightmares of that damn green witch.
Sincerely, the Scarecrow of Oz.
Re:That does it. I'm moving back to the U.S. (Score:2, Funny)
I'll never know when I'll go to sleep one night and wake up in a gas tank on a highway in Hamilton, Ontario, powering a Pontiac Firefly. I'm sure I'll have nightmares of this "straw to fuel" scheme. It took me years to get over nightmares of that damn green witch.
Sincerely, the Scarecrow of Oz.
Give me a break. That's just a straw-man agrument and you know it.
That's all well and good but... (Score:4, Funny)
I'm looking for a smoothness without that old straw taste.