Some university students in Newzealand claimed that coconut oil can be used as fuel in automobile engines. If that ever reaches mainstream, our cities are going to smell like Kerala-style restaurants! A whacky solution to the pollution problem as well.
This immediately brings to my memory one Ramar Pillai, who, around 1997-98, claimed that he could 'make' petrol out of just herbs/shrubs. Now that was some news! Here was an idea that could solve India's fuel woes as well as parthenium menace ;-) But alas, his trick was busted after a few days, but he maintained that his 'trick' was 'genuine'. I read a news after a few years that the Pillai guy continued to happily use his own herbal petrol in his TVS50. If he could _really_ make fuel out of some flora, I would expect him to at least become rich enough to drive a Merc.
Okay, back to coconut dudes of NZ. They claim that this is a possible answer to rising fuel cost woes. Well, I for one am totally against this whole idea. Do they know that we are already paying 12Rs for a coconut in Bangalore? If your family is from the west-coast districts of Karnataka, you know that pretty much all of the daily foods have coconut as an ingredient. So anything that can take the cost of coconuts up, I am against. Also, if cost of coconut oil doubles, what are Indians going to use in their hair? Petrol? And make it easy for bride-burning in-laws?
A stock-market tip - time to buy shares of parachute coconut oil company!
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