Leading article: A car with a sweet tooth
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Your support makes all the difference.Intrepid travellers have always managed to find room in their backpacks for the odd chocolate bar. For anyone attempting to scale mountains, trek through snow or cross a desert, a quick, sugar-filled snack is a tried and tested way of keeping the body going.
But fuelling a vehicle with the stuff? Now that just seems a waste. Adventurers Andy Pag and John Grimshaw set off from Dorset yesterday in a fleet of lorries bound for Timbuktu. They will be propelled every inch of the way by a biofuel that started life as chocolate. The trip, designed to highlight the possible uses for biofuel and draw attention to desertification, will take them across the Sahara – not a place to leave a chocolate bar on the dashboard.
Are we alone in thinking that chocolate is best used and appreciated as a fuel for pedestrians? Let's just hope the adventurers remembered to pack some treats for themselves, as well as their vehicles, to sweeten their 4,500-mile drive.
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