Thursday, September 2, 2010
Whisky motoring
Before you get on the phone to both us and the police, complaining that the promotion of drink driving is hardly sensible or ethical practice for a young driver car insurance specialist, think again.
What's got my dear old dad wide-eyed with enthusiasm has nothing to do with people drinking whisky. Instead, it's about cars drinking whisky, so to speak.
And while it cannot be helped that for me such a scenario inevitably conjures visions of my old man's Beemer weaving it's way, unaided, from its garage to the pub in order to top up on single malt, the truth is that whisky is the latest innovation in biofuel, environmentally-friendly fuels that reduce fuel oil content and thereby help us meet our commitment to renewable energy sources.
However, news that the fuel will be mixed is unlikely to please my whisky purist father. "The most likely form of distribution of the biofuel would be a blend of perhaps 5 per cent or 10 per cent of the biofuel with petrol or diesel but 5 per cent or 10 per cent means less oil which would make a big, big difference," says a researcher from the Biofuel Research Centre.
Yet there is still hope for my dad, whom I'm sure would be mortified if his car drank its whisky anything but neat. "Theoretically it could be used entirely on its own but you would have to find a company to distribute it," said the same researcher.
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