Prince Charles Saves the Planet (One bottle of Pinot Grigio at a time.)

In the name of all that is environmentally friendly: This article about Prince Charles’ eco-friendly Aston Martin had me floored.
His Aston Martin runs on green fuels—which in this situation means WHITE WINE AND CHEESE.
Seriously.

We get it Prince Charles.
We get that you are worth billions of pounds and can have people sent to the gallows.
We get that you can swim around in a river of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck used to do in that DuckTales show on the Disney Channel 10 years ago
We get that you are British royalty and as a result when Princess Diana died your MUM refused to fly the Buckingham Palace flag at half mast because of Princess Di's peasant bloodline.
WE GET IT.

But do you really have to fill your Aston Martin with gruyere and champagne to rub in the fact that the worldwide recession isn’t hitting you?

Why not just fill it with ingots of gold and speed around town waving at your loyal subjects while glittering gold smoke shoots out of your exhaust pipe and settles on the faces of the local paupers skipping after your car?

What does this wine and cheese Aston Martin situation say about the green movement 15 years from now? Basically instead of topping off at Exxon Mobile stations, people will be topping off their tanks (and stomachs) at a local vineyards instead? I’m surprised MAAD hasn’t sent out a press release condemning this yet.

If this is the future of eco-friendly automobiles, then people in AA who own cars are completely screwed and might as well just pop the top off that bottle of that Budweiser right now.

Photo Credits:
Cellar
Stewart, Flickr