To Beer! The Cause of, and Solution to, All Life’s Problems!

New York Times Political Blog
June 13, 2008, 11:53 am
By Leslie Wayne

Beer-powered cars.

That is what Molson Coors Brewing Company will be providing to the political elite at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August. Beer, it turns out, can be turned into ethanol and used to fuel cars. This alternative source will be on display at the convention, which is trying to promote its green bona fides.

There is, of course, the obvious question: Why would anyone want to pour good beer into the tank of a car?

For starters, it’s not actually good beer, but beer that is “lost during packaging or deemed below quality standards,” according to Coors. Since 1996, Coors has been converting this waste beer, as it is called, into ethanol and generating about 3 million gallons of waste-beer ethanol a year.

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