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"I choked when I was offered a glass of one of the famous local chateaux for $30, quickly opting for something a lot cheaper. Yet if places such as Saint-Emilion prosper, the government has had to work on a project for turning unsold cheaper wines into another another expensive liquid: gasoline. "Today about 1 per cent of all French gasoline has been converted from wine - we think we can go as high as 5 per cent," a chemist in nearby Bordeaux had told me."