Prince Charles' Aston Martin Hybrid Runs On Wine

The Chevy Volt, a new kind of hybrid announced by General Motors, was recently called "the Barack Obama of automobiles." Prince Charles is hoping he can do the same thing with his revamped Aston Martin. The prince, long environmentally conscious, has turned his cherished sports car into a hybrid that runs on wine:

In his latest effort to help the environment, the prince has converted his 38-year-old Aston Martin to run on fuel made from surplus English wine.

The move, part of a drive to reduce his carbon footprint, emerged in an annual review of the Prince's activities. It shows he has already hit his target of cutting carbon emissions by 12.5 per cent by 2012, in line with the Government's Kyoto target.

Aides said this was partly due to the pattern of Royal trips set by the Foreign Office. He has now doubled the target to a 25 per cent fall in emissions by 2018.

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.'

Comments

[Robert5181]

California is over run with vineyards. When the dollar recovers from its current free fall, California wine exports will again become expensive and we will have a glut of wine on the market. If we use the surplus as fuel instead of Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, the commercial will say Zin, Zin ,Zin!!

[landmine]

I love the smell of a fine Chianti in the morning! I smells like....

[Wilburrr]

liver and fava beans?

[AtomiClash]

Gives a new definition to drink driving then, I guess!

[sufi66]

This is a typo: you must mean that the Prince runs on wine.

[Wilburrr]

No.... Prince whines while his car (barely) runs.

[nudger]

Another example of a gimmicky "personal virtue". The Prince would be much more effective if he put his shoulder behind efforts to reform EU farm policies that lead to "surplus" wine in the first place. Do the life-cycle arithmetic and that wine-turned-biofuel probably cost more that pure Dom P.

[kingcityguru]

Hey, how about using a product that provides the most energy per dollar -- gasoline!
Wine for Drinking.
Oil for gasoline.
Nuclear for Electricity.
Nat Gas for home heating.
Corn for Eating.
Problems solved.

[brendanm]

What problems are solved? Peak oil and worldwide shortages are resolved exactly how? Nuclear waste, safety concerns, and extremely high cost associated with nuclear power is solved how? Environmental concerns are addressed how? Your comment wasn't very stupid how?

[Kassandra]

Doncha just LOVE it when human beings show creativity and problem solving ability??? GEEZ!

[Paris68]

"In his latest effort to help the environment, the prince has converted his 38-year-old Aston Martin to run on fuel made from surplus English wine."

Surplus English wine? Is there any other kind??? (bah-dum-bum...)

[HeevenSteven]

lol!

[Cathexis]

OHHHHH!!!

Man, that barb was so pointed, I got a puncture mark just reading it! ;-D

[grumpyoldwoman]

Snerk! Well, it's better than pouring it down the drain--although it might work as drain cleaner. Good for him!

[kellygrrrl]

my ol' Chevy runs on beer and frijoles

[HeevenSteven]

Pffffft! That's nothing; I've got one that runs on vintage Don Perrion.

[JennyJay]

Ahhhhhh....these days, we all should be so lucky as to be running on wine.

[kellygrrrl]

I'm with you JJ :)

[N567]

The new James Bond Aston Martin runs on vodka martinis, without the olives of course.

[HeevenSteven]

Shaken, not stirred, of course.

[Big0725]

You always shake a vodka martini. It's gin you stir. And when did vodka become a suitable replacement for gin? A martini is gin, vermouth and an olive. Replace the olive with a cocktail (pearl) onion and you have a gimlet. That's it, end of story.

[VivaZapata]

the royal family should show their environmental concern by turning over their country castle and lands to the british people as park land. but they're entitled to that ownership, right?

[N567]

The Americans should show their environmental concern by turning over Manhattan Island to the Indians as park land but they're entitled to that ownership, right?

[VivaZapata]

yes that's true. good idea N567.

[Big0725]

Seeing that Manhattan was one of the few places that we didn't taken from to the native Americans (Indians play baseball in Cleveland), yes, we do deserve to own that. And to the best of my recollection, at that time the vast majority of us "Americans" were still subjects of the king, so no British snootiness is allowed.

[candyperfumegirl]

My benz runs on caviar and is made of radiation

[WIpatriot]

No, officer, I'm not drunk, but my car is. You see.....

[VivaZapata]

funny

[BaileyWo]

Bloody good show! Now if only the next time he weds a Jewish girl from Cana, he'll be all set for life.