Re: Boycott


Connie wrote:

So you want to drive an alcohol car? Yeah, cars that run on pot and
alcohol would be cool.... no speed though or *** like that. heh.
-woodstock-


Try this:

Published: 05.16.2006

From moonshine to cheap gas: Home stills used for additives
By Bill Poovey
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TULLAHOMA, Tenn. - The still - standard equipment of any moonshiner - has a
shot at becoming the must-have accessory of penny-pinching motorists.
An upstart Tennessee business is marketing stills that can be set up as
private distilleries making ethanol - 190 proof grain alcohol - out of
fermented starchy crops such as corn, apples or sugar cane. The company
claims the still's output can reduce fuel costs by nearly a third from the
pump price of gasoline.
Buyers of stills need a federal permit to make ethanol on private property.
In what amounts to an honor system, they are to add a poison to their
homemade alcohol so it isn't "white lightning."
"We make it very clear that it is against the law to drink what comes out of
it," said Shelley McClanahan, a spokeswoman for her family's business,
Dogwood Energy.
Phones are ringing with orders at the business that mostly sold pellets for
wood stoves before pump prices bounced high by Hurricane Katrina focused new
attention on a modified still designed by McClanahan's father,
inventor-mechanic Bill Sasher.
Since word started getting out in recent weeks about Sasher's still, Dogwood
Energy has added 10 employees, McClanahan said.
Sasher's new creekside assembly warehouse in south-central Tennessee - down
a backwoods road, next door to a noisy rooster and less than five miles from
the distillery that makes Jack Daniel's whiskey - has orders for about 45
assembled stills.
The company is building four or five stills a day and has sold 45 in recent
weeks, more than 125 since September, to meet the demand from customers
ranging from small businesses to thrifty individuals.
"You can save a lot of money. That's what this is all about," McClanahan
said.
A bushel of the fermented starch crop, mixed with yeast, water and sugar,
and allowed to sit for about 2 1/2 days, then strained and heated to
boiling, makes about 2.6 gallons of ethanol, which is then added to gasoline
to produce a blended fuel.
Dogwood Energy says it costs about 75 cents per gallon to make ethanol at
home. Adding 15 percent ethanol to $3 gasoline reduces the cost of a fill-up
to $2.40 per gallon, McClanahan said.
A blend with 85 percent ethanol cuts the cost to $1.09 for a blended gallon,
she said.
Sasher's stills, which stand about 6 feet tall and easily fit in an airy
garage corner, sell for about $1,400 each. Blueprints each sell for about
$45, and buyers who are good salvagers can build a still themselves for less
than $1,000, McClanahan said.
Marrcus Mollenarro, a Kenosha, Wis., businessman, has bought one of Sasher's
stills to make it cheaper to run his six personal and business vehicles.
"We don't have to use oil from the Middle East. There are options,"
Mollenarro said.
Dubose Porter of Dublin, Ga., a state representative and editor of The
Courier Herald, said the newspaper has ordered a still to help offset
delivery costs.
"The still idea is intriguing for a small company like ours," he said.
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/129257.php
On the Web
l Dogwood Energy: www.dogwoodenergy.com
l National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition: www.e85fuel.com
l National Petroleum Institute: www.api.org
"Dia" <fraglthndr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Not buying gas next Tuesday is not the way to make a difference.

Buying gas right now is already like being taken advantage of,
extorted, but it will only get worse.
We will need to transport ourselves across many miles in the next
month...somehow, and someone will buy fuel...someday.
If we really wanta take a bite outta big bro, we need to grow our fuel,
or recycle oils that can be used for fuel...
I wonder if there will be a soap shortage when more folks convert to
biodiesal.
Doubtful.
D



Becca wrote:
I'll be camping. Driving on Wednesday. Deal?


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