Imagine enjoying your morning coffee, then instead of throwing away the used grounds, you put them in your fuel tank and they power your drive to work.  It may not be practical but it is possible, thanks to some industrious Brits.  You can see the full story by clicking here.

The 1988 Volkswagon Scirocco that runs on coffee grounds.

If the technology reaches our shores (and if you can stand to drive a 1988 Scirocco, we’d recommend drinking one of www.BuzzMug.com’s flavored coffees from Julian Coffee Roasters.  Our Chocolate Almond Coffee would make for some chocolaty emissions.  As the accompanying story points out, using coffee grounds to power your car isn’t exactly cost effective right now.  But who knows.  If it catches on, someday instead of getting our fuel from the oil fields of the Middle East, we may get it from the coffee bean fields of Colombia.

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