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Will biofuels ever be viable?

Host_Ryan - One Show team | 17:27 UK time, Thursday, 5 February 2009

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With the dangers of global warming ringing in our ears and our landfills struggling to cope with the amount of junk we throw away, wouldn't it be great if there was some way of one problem potentially solving the other?

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Marty Jopson explored a possible alternative to burning fossil fuels to power our cars, with the latest development in which takes the carbon from our rubbish and turns it into ethanol.

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But does a fuel made from rubbish automatically mean a car with rubbish performance? Marty put the pedal to the metal and took the latest in biofueled cars out for a spin on a test track to find out.

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What do you think? Will biofuels ever be a viable alternative to petrol? Should we be devoting more time to finding something to replace fossil fuels? Share your views.

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