The answer to the oil problem is..........

[STEED]

Chocolate!!!

From Europe to Timbuktu and back...in a chocolate fuelled car!

Washington, Jan 9 : Two eco-minded British adventurers have completed their expedition to Timbuktu in a truck fuelled by chocolate.

Andy Pag, 34, and John Grimshaw, 39, attempted the first ever carbon-negative driving expedition across the Sahara Desert.

The pair drove 7,250km (4,500 miles) in a month, overcoming sandstorms, corrupt bureaucracy and a rapidly crumbling truck - to deliver a biodiesel processing unit and the vans to a charity.

Pag and Grimshaw, from Poole, Dorset, left the UK on Nov 26, 2007, and arrived in Mali, West Africa on Boxing Day.

They took 2,000 litres of bio-diesel made from 4,000 kilograms of chocolate misshapes, the equivalent of 80,000 chocolate bars, to fuel their adventure.

The trip was made possible by biodiesel producer Ecotec, which turns waste chocolate into fuel by heating it and mixing it with a number of chemicals, including a secret ingredient.

MFC, a Malian charity, plans to use the processor to make biodiesel from desert weeds.

"We wanted to do a trip that wouldn't have a detrimental effect on the environment," The Sun quoted Pag, as saying.

Pag and Grimshaw said that they now want to travel to China on a rubbish-powered aircraft.


http://www.britainnews.net/story/316479

[Skybird]

I may sound old-fashioned, but my preferred style of moving around is - walking - but that occasionaly l did in past years up to 60 km per day. That is roughly the distance from Münster to Osnabrück.

Just would not like to do it EVERY day.

The best way to learn the mood and atmosphere and many faces of a foreign city or place. No busses. No organized tours. No car or taxi, it all simply is too fast. No bike (although that is acceptable). But walking. Ten hours, 40 km - that is realistic, saying by own experience. Just make sure you have comfortable shoes.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Skybird

I may sound old-fashioned, but my preferred style of moving around is - walking - but that occasionaly l did in past years up to 60 km per day. That is roughly the distance from Münster to Osnabrück.

Just would not like to do it EVERY day.

The best way to learn the mood and atmosphere and many faces of a foreign city or place. No busses. No organized tours. No car or taxi, it all simply is too fast. No bike (although that is acceptable). But walking. Ten hours, 40 km - that is realistic, saying by own experience. Just make sure you have comfortable shoes.

How many bars of chocolate does that take :hmm:

[Peto]

Originally Posted by Skybird

I may sound old-fashioned, but my preferred style of moving around is - walking - but that occasionaly l did in past years up to 60 km per day. That is roughly the distance from Münster to Osnabrück.

Just would not like to do it EVERY day.

The best way to learn the mood and atmosphere and many faces of a foreign city or place. No busses. No organized tours. No car or taxi, it all simply is too fast. No bike (although that is acceptable). But walking. Ten hours, 40 km - that is realistic, saying by own experience. Just make sure you have comfortable shoes.

I completely agree. The ability to learn a culture and a people depends on not going where a commercial tour will take you. Some of my favorite walk-about moments in Spain are sitting in a plaza chatting with elderly gents. I t allowed me a glimpse into the past that enabled me to see their present more clearly. Once you have a cultural sense of those two elements, it becomes much easier to get a feel for what lies ahead.

Learning about the future is easy. We just need to read about the past and talk to those who have experienced more of it that we have. Failure to achieve cultural and social understanding in this way assures one thing for certain--History will Repeat.

Want to learn about the world? Strap on a backpack and go. Leave the travel brochures where you found them .

[seafarer]

Originally Posted by Skybird

I may sound old-fashioned, but my preferred...

method of consuming chocolate is to EAT it. (preferably nice rich dark chocolate with some roasted almonds on the side).

[baggygreen]

I just cant believe this carbon-negative term, its worse than carbon-neutral....

the truck i suppose was wished into existence..... as was everything that was involved in the making of the chocolate - ie the factory and all its parts and so on... not to mention the exhaust from the cars of the people who work there, etc

On the plus side, i could go a long long way on a car of chocolate fuel - i dont eat it!

[AVGWarhawk]

Did the chocolate have nuts and if so, peanuts or almonds?

[STEED]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Did the chocolate have nuts and if so, peanuts or almonds?

I have a feeling no.

[bookworm_020]

Originally Posted by STEED

I have a feeling no.

Wait untill you see the higher preformace version, Rum & Raisin dark chocolate

[STEED]

Originally Posted by bookworm_020

Wait untill you see the higher preformace version, Rum & Raisin dark chocolate

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[FIREWALL]

Mmmmmm Chocolate ...

[Jimbuna]

A popular brand in the UK

[STEED]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

A popular brand in the UK

Never heard of it or seen it, that is until you posted it jim.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by STEED

Never heard of it or seen it, that is until you posted it jim.

Still a very popular brand I can assure you

Cadburys as well

[STEED]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Still a very popular brand I can assure you

Cadburys as well

True Cadburys is all over the place but I have never seen that particular brand in the shops.