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Carbon-Neutral Prince Charles Gets Driven Around on Old Cooking Fat Posted: 19 Jul 2009 10:28 AM PDT It’s hard being an environmental celebrity, especially when you are Royal too. People want to see you, but that can mean racking up a lot of carbon miles. So Prince Charles had his Aston Martin converted to run on bio-ethanol made from aged English wine, and his Audi, Jaguar, and Range Rover all run on what the English call old cooking fat. In the US we call this reused cooking oil because that’s much hipper and greener sounding, and marketing is everything. So now Prince Charles is driven in the royal Jaguar that runs on homemade biodiesel and, for a little variety; in the Land Rover or the Audi, in a carbon conscious fashion. But what about his airplane travel? Well… Read more of this story »

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