Sorry whales, we need oil!!!

Showing once again that there is no intelligent life here, a Spanish firm claims we can make oil from plankton.

This news comes today with oil spiking over $74 per barrel (but you can't buy a barrell, I've asked). I am still pondering over a more effiecient car like the Honda Fit, Jetta TDI or Mini. Really, the SMART EV would be cool too, the coolest actually cuase it is so Euro...

Forget about CO2 and the other stuff, we just scoop up the dead plankton, put them in the sun and a magnetic field and voila! You can drive another mile.

How about cars running on whale oil?

Spanish firm claims it can make oil from plankton

Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:46 PM BST

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MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish company claimed on Thursday to have developed a method of breeding plankton and turning the marine plants into oil, providing a potentially inexhaustible source of clean fuel.

Vehicle tests are some time away because the company, Bio Fuel Systems, has not yet tried refining the dark green coloured crude oil phytoplankton turn into, a spokesman said.

Bio Fuel Systems is a wholly Spanish firm, formed this year in eastern Spain after three years of research by scientists and engineers connected with the University of Alicante.

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