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Monday, November 14, 2005


COMING SOON: THE BEERMOBILE?


Fox News is reporting that chemical engineers, working with the Coors Brewing Company, have found a week to run your car on beer, sort of:

Though Coors and its partner, Merrick & Co., aren’t pouring brewskies straight into your car, they are turning some of the waste created during the beer-making process into 200-proof high-octane alcohol called ethanol, used to purify gasoline.


“For every gallon of ethanol that we put into the gasoline pool, we get back out a gallon of crude oil that comes from who-knows-where,” said Steven Wagner of Merrick.