The 35 Most Bizarre Things ever used to make biofuels

3. Europe’s Wine Lakes

A few years back, Nature reported that The European Commission is putting out to tender the opportunity to turn its excess wine into bioethanol, while swearing it would be the last time that the EU would be in the business of subsidizing the conversion of excess wine production in order to protect wine prices. At the time, other media were reporting that in 2006, just the Bordeaux region converted roughly 17 million liters (almost 2 million cases) of wine into fuel ethanol.