WELL, THIS SOUNDS LIKE GOOD NEWS: Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol. “Because crude oil (which can be refined into other products, such as petroleum or jet fuel) is only a few molecular stages removed from the fatty acids normally excreted by yeast or E. coli during fermentation, it does not take much fiddling to get the desired result.” Bring it on!

(Via Tom Grey). I certainly hope it pans out.