Run your car on chardonnay

LEADED or unleaded petrol could be laced with ethanol produced from excess chardonnay or pinot noir, according to Granite Belt wine grower Angelo Puglisi. A worldwide glut of wine is forcing prices down and Australian grape growers need alternative markets such as distilleries producing greenhouse-friendly fuel, he says.

In France, the worldwide wine glut forced winemakers to make 100 million litres of wine into ethanol last year for selling to oil refineries to mix into fuel.

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