Back in the 70's there was a guy that invented a process to turn any type of plant life into
dextrose wich could then by turned into alcohol. It was in the news once and was never
brought up again.Maybe you fuel people can get a line on that on the net,I have little
chemical background so I'm not going to.
ATF Probably nailed him...
Steven Chu had a little press release about termite guts doing something like that.
http://www.physorg.com/news3700.html