There's whisky in the jar...

Jam jar, car, you know.  Phil Lynott obviously was a visionary in more fields than just heavy metal music as the lyrics to Thin Lizzy's 1970s hit, a reworking of a traditional Irish folk song is obviously a testament to.  Scientists at Edinburgh Napier University have done malt lovers and motorists a sterling favour by finding a way to run regular gasoline engines on a biofuel they have derived from the waste products of whisky manufacture. 

Phil Lynott - ecologist and fuel systems engineer

OK, I'll be you are thinking the same thing as I am:  bioethanol - been there, seen that.  But no.  You would be as wrong as I was if that were what you were thinking.  See Bioethanol, even in E85 mix as is becoming popular in the US "corn belt" is not a direct petrol replacement.  This glorious moonshine stuff is.  The Scots profs say you can run any petrol car on the stuff without any adapatation.  The trick is that the whisky fuel has a higher calorific value than ethanol which is lower than petrol.  Whisky waste gives you about 30% more power than ethanol and apparently doesn't have the fuel system corrosion issues which ethanol based fuels can do.  Final point is you won't have the arguement about wasted energy in growing crops for fuel conversion, nor the food vs. fuel arguements.  This is pure waste recycling. 

Drink whisky - sod OPEC

The best part:  fuel levels running low?  drink more Whisky!  This can only be good news.  You can read more at the BBC and The Evening Express amongst others.