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The Chocolate-Fuelled Truck That’s Heading To Timbuktu
By Mr Ethanol | November 19, 2007
Daily Mail:
There are blobby chocolate buttons. Chocolate hazelnuts. Orange creams. Walnut whips whose whirls have gone a little bit wonky.
Not to mention disintegrating flakes, chipped chocolate caramels and enough squished family-sized bars to send Augustus Gloop, the greediest child in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, into an all-day feeding frenzy.
Alas - as far as chocoholics are concerned - the confectionery arriving by the truckload at the Ecotec plant in Preston is not for eating.
These are the misshapen, the melted and the rejected, and they will all be transformed into a more precious commodity: fuel. Or, to be more precise, bio-diesel.
The idea of pulling into a filling station and asking for a tank of white, milk or plain might seem preposterous.
But later this month, Londoner Andy Pag and his co-driver John Grimshaw, an electrician from Dorset, will set out on a 4,000-mile drive across the Sahara in a Ford Iveco Cargo lorry powered by just that: fuel that began life as chocolate.
From the south coast of England, they will take the ferry to France, drive through Spain, the length of Morocco, turn left in Mauritania and plough on through the desert until they reach the desolate city of Timbuktu in Mali.
This isn’t just a wacky adventure. Read full article.
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