Australia's wine industry is investigating whether its current 263 million litre glut of wine would be better used as biofuel to power cars, trucks or even aircraft.

What do you think of this idea? I had this image of people going to the petrol pump and taking a swig, but if the boffins can do something useful with all the warehoused unsellable wine it might help in various ways.

  • shirro@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    5 months ago

    The industry needs to respond to overproduction by reducing plantings or finding new markets or products as they always did. What they are fishing for instead is a govt handout to subsidize an extremely inefficient means of energy production that uses massive amounts of scarce irrigated water and a shitload of fossil fuel. The money for those subsidies could have gone into healthcare, schooling, social security or taxpayers pockets. The water could have gone on crops that created more jobs and wealth for the country. And the diesel used in production could have been used to grow and ship crops people actually want.