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Burnishing his green credentials before the Cop26 summit, it was with pride that Prince Charles revealed that he runs his Aston Martin on “surplus English white wine and waste from the cheese process”.
In a BBC’s interview aired on Monday, which was filmed in a garden at Balmoral that he said is named after his first grandson, Prince George, he told BBC’s climate editor, Justin Rowlatt, about the viable ways he was including his devotion for the environment in his daily life.
Prince Charles said, “My old Aston Martin, that runs now on waste products. “It runs on — can you believe this — surplus English white wine and whey from the cheese process.”
And one of those ways, he noted was converting the fuel used for his car, which Queen Elizabeth II gifted him on his 21st birthday.
Last year, Prince Charles told The Telegraph that he had insisted that Aston Martin engineers find another source of fuel for his car and was met with some pushback from the engineers who told him, “It’ll ruin the whole thing.”
“The engineers at Aston said, ‘Oh, it’ll ruin the whole thing,'” he said.
“I said, ‘Well I won’t drive it then,’ so they got on with it and now they admit that it runs better and is more powerful on that fuel than it is on petrol,” he added.
Prince Charles’ Aston Martin wasn’t the only royal transportation that he successfully converted. He also told The Telegraph that he battled to change the royal train to operate on used cooking oil.
Rowlatt, who noted that the prince first addressed environmental issues present in 1970, said in the most recent interview that he found it fascinating that after experiencing ridicule “for so long,” he was being asked to talk about the current climate crisis.
“I was accused of being anti-science,” Charles said. “It wasn’t much fun, as you can imagine.”
He described himself as a realist who thinks it’s taken the world “far too long” to make climate concerns mainstream. It’s time for world leaders to stop talking and “get action on the ground,” something he’s been trying to make happen for the past 40 years, he told Rowlatt.
Charles added that he was “deeply worried” about the world he will leave behind for his grandchildren.
“Why do you think I’ve done this for all these years? Because I’ve minded about — and always have done — the next generations,” he said. “I’ve been doing this really to make sure my children, your grandchildren and everybody else’s have some future.”
Representatives for Clarence House and Aston Martin did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
Source: Insider
