[Master Belisarius]

Originally posted by Aloofi:
So spice can be eaten and is a fuel at the same time?
Isn't that kind of wierd?
I guess I know now why I didn't like it in the first place.

Is not a fuel.
It's a drug that use the Navigator Guild's pilots to control the space ships in the transtellar travels.
This drug give them a "prescience" that they need to control the ships.

Originally posted by Aloofi:

Isn't that kind of wierd?
I guess I know now why I didn't like it in the first place.

hehehehehe, really you're confused.
Of course many things in the book are "weird", unique, think should say. But IMHO this is one of the reasons because "Dune" is a great book.