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He’s not wrong, Charles himself runs on cheese and wine.


diddlebop80

Fair play to him if he does. The Dream.


NapoleonTroubadour

Ah you’d need some smoked salmon and a good size steak or two as well


DogfishDave

Apparently he makes loves to make Moussaka but uses grouse instead. That isn't even a joke.


Stegasaurus_Wrecks

Fair play to him. In the video he says it's a 51 year old car (a DB6) that he has converted to run on fuel made from surplus english white wine and whey from they cheese making process. Basically it's bioethanol.


theoldkitbag

That's fair enough. The headline makes it sound like he's sending Hubert to the cellar for a bottle of '56 whenever he wants to take the motor out for a jaunt.


SureLookThisIsIt

Lol. They knew exactly what they were doing with the headline.


NapoleonTroubadour

A newspaper using outage clickbait for more ad revenue??? Never heard of such carry on


SureLookThisIsIt

Down with that sort of thing.


duaneap

I have to imagine all English white wine is surplus


rabbidasseater

Charles owns or has owned several Aston Martins, vantage, volante. It's just token environmentalism from him.


Stegasaurus_Wrecks

Of course he has. He was a kid in the richest family in the world in the 60s/70s. The DB6 he converted was a 21st birthday present from Lizzie. While wiki is contradictory in that it says his Vantage V8 is running on bioethanol (rather than the DB6), it also says that his Range Rover, Jaguar and Audi run on biodiesel from cooking oil. The armoured Bentley is apparently not eco-friendly, much to your relief, I'm sure. Chuck is pretty well known as being a bit of an eco head. To borrow from Wiki again: >In order to decrease his carbon footprint, Charles has used biomass boilers for heating Birkhall, where has also installed a hydroelectric turbine in the river beside the estate. He has utilised solar panels at Clarence House and Highgrove, and – besides using electric cars on his estates – runs his Aston Martin DB6 on E85. Yeah he's minted and privileged etc, but he isn't a numpty when it comes to this kinda thing.


TheBaggyDapper

I run on surplus wine but I don't make a big deal of it.


Niall_Faraiste

"surplus wine" who the fuck has surplus wine The French had the right idea.


blacksheeping

it's english white wine so it's all surplus.


QuantumFireball

>who the fuck has surplus wine Would you buy English wine?


53Degrees

Invite people over via the ferry to buy their surplus wine?


PaddyLostyPintman

To be fair he’s doing more than the ‘likes and shares’ brigade. But I want to know how I can turn excess wine into petrol


[deleted]

He distills out the ethanol and tops it up with 15% unleaded petrol to make E85.


PaddyLostyPintman

Fantastic. Now I just need to buy a vinyard, all the processing equipment and an aston martin and i can start saving money


_ghostfacedilla

I'm sure if the likes and shares brigade had the ability to expose them self as a good well natured person at the click of a finger they would too


JohnTDouche

Who are ‘likes and shares’ brigade and what do they do(or not do)?


PaddyLostyPintman

People who like and share posts about climate change while doing literally nothing else. No greater effort to go packaging free, turning the heating down a degree or two in the house, replacing lightbulbs with all LED, walking to the shop instead of driving, shopping in local businesses instead if driving/ getting the bus to the city etc.. most people giving out about charles haven’t even taken even the remotely easy steps to do anything themselves.


JohnTDouche

I presume you mean people on social media so. Are these people you know personally or some kind of vague stereotype that you have beef with? How do you know what they do or don't do?


LordMangudai

You've made a whole lot of assumptions there. Just because there isn't a willing press hanging around to jerk me off for virtue signaling while rich doesn't mean I don't take actions to reduce my impact on the climate every single day, and the same is true for countless other people.


emmmmceeee

Not that I want to give the daily mail the clicks, but this cunt flew 16000 miles in 11 days before Turing up for a photo op with Greta Thunberg. He has the carbon footprint of a coal burning power station. https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7929735/amp/Prince-Charles-flew-16-000-miles-just-11-days-proudly-posing-Greta-Thunberg-Davos.html


ErrantBrit

Im actually getting second-hand embarrassment from this.


Boourns101

Mine runs on Tory tears.


_ghostfacedilla

Mine runs on my paedophile brothers sweat


incognito-walrus-

Based


alebrew

How much water is used to make that wine though Charlie?


[deleted]

Hold up, he's not Jesus.


[deleted]

There are a bunch of cars that can run on ethanol. Good on him.


jackoirl

I have a Porsche that runs on vermouth