So, does that mean that if a human accidentally ingest this E. Coli bacteria...
...they’ll be drunk as a skunk until doctors can dose the person with enough antibiotics to kill it off?
No. The person’ll be poisoned like it would be having consumpted a glass of gasoline. The bacteria doesn’t prodice spirits.
These convert sugar, not to alcohol, but to Carbon-Hydrogen chain molecules (ethane, methane, etc.).
The problem, once they can make the alkane in large quantity, is to control which alkane is produced. The longer the carbon chain, the harder it is.
Auto fuel is an eight carbon chain molecule, diesel is 16, kerosene (jet fuel) is 12... We'd also like propane too; 3 carbons.
So. If the bacteria generate random length chains, distillation towers would still be needed, so refineries wouldn't be done away with.