FILL' ER UP WITH POND SCUM

Gas prices got you down?
How about a tank full of pond scum?
Bob Truxell, chief executive of a Sequest LLC, believes that algae can be converted into biofuels, something like ethanol.
Right now, it's only his dream.
He is hoping the State of Michigan will give him a $7 million grant to prove his scheme.
Although he is considering three other sites, Truxell hopes are to locate his operation at Holland, Michigan's waste water and coal plant.
His plan is to grow algae (while the rest of us are trying to get rid of it) by diverting carbon dioxide from the power plant and then combine it with treated waste water.
Of course the post-scum chemical process after that is not at all simple.
Finally we might say such is the stuff of dreams. One man's pond scum is another man's ... well who knows?
At this point however, OPEC feels no threat.