Cars Are Being Fueled By Four Loko!
All you Four Loko fans don’t worry! They’re not just throwing out the banned beverage—they’re using it to make fuel for cars. According to the Associated Press, Four Loko along with other alcohol-energy beverages are being recycled into ethanol for cars. There are three ethanol recycling companies already putting the banned liquid to use:
Truckloads of Four Loko and other alcohol-laced energy drinks are being recycled into ethanol and other products after federal authorities told manufacturers the beverages were dangerous and caused users to become “wide-awake drunk.”Wholesalers from Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland and other East Coast states started sending cases of the high-alcohol, caffeinated malt beverages to MXI Environmental Services in Virginia after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a crackdown on the sale of such beverages in November.
Brian Potter, vice president of operations at MXI’s facility in Abingdon, Va., said about a couple of hundred truckloads of the drinks would be coming to the plant. Each truck holds 2,000 cases of the 23.5-ounce cans.
MXI Enterprises is one of three facilities in the U.S. that recycle ethanol, according to the American Coalition for Ethanol, an industry group. Potter said Thursday that his competitors also are taking shipments of the drinks.
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Better this than the whole lot of it being thrown into a landfill. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the ban, the product is now illegal and it’s good that it can be adapted into something else. Thought I’m guessing that’ll be little comfort to the wholesalers…