Take a look at this article.

Isn’t that cool? Now why didn’t I think of that? Won’t it be something if one day we could have a bacteria that eats waste products and then excrete crude oil! We could possible solve the world’s problems! I mean wars have been fought for the control of crude oil and we all know the importance of that black oil. Well, if you don’t, you actually use it everyday. Not exactly it, but a refined version of crude oil which you can use to power the PC you are running now, or that car you are going to drive later. Yes, that’s from Crude Oil. You process it so that it becomes petrol for your car.

And the best of all, they are started on it. They have a bug which can eat up wood chips or wheat straw and these bugs later excrete crude oil.  I guess this is what they call “renewable petroleum”? The process is exactly like what you do when you brew beer. You need a yeast strain which can convert food (carbon) to petroleum.Basically, you leave the yeast eat the food and it turn it converts the food to petroleum. When you brew beer, the yeats turns the sugars to alcohol. Petrolem is “very much” like alcohol, so I guess what they did was the engineer or modify the yeast till it can accomplish that. Well, that means that soon we will be seeing home brewed Crude Oil. Don’t need to get crude oil from the local sheik, just brew them yourselves with the leftover woodchips or wheat straw. But what can we do with Crude oil which is not refined?

I hope that one day, they won’t modify the yeast till it eats human flesh and excrete crude oil. It could be very devastating to the human race on the whole. However,if they somehow managed to modify the yeast till it eats stupid or brainless humans and excrete crude oil, then I think it is a very good accomplishment.