The Royal wedding on April 29 was watched by millions. Following the ceremony,the newly titled Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were seen driving a Seychelles Blue DB6 MKII Volante Aston Martin.
But what “common” folk may not have known is that the car was running on wine. The car’s engine was retrofitted to allow it to run on E85 bioethanol fuel refi ned from surplus grapes grown in a vineyard owned by the Royal Family. It gets only about 10 miles per gallon or roughly 4 1/2 bottles of Chardonnay.
Doing the math...if a grower gets $200 per ton for a 10-ton crop, that is $2,000 per acre. That same 10-ton crop would conservatively generate 160 gallons per ton or 1,600 gallons per acre. At $4 per gallon the grower would make $4,400 more per acre for grapes for bioethanol than for wine or concentrate.
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