Product Description
Alcohol Can Be a Gas! is the only comprehensive book ever written on alcohol fuel production and use for home and farm. Until now, it has been very difficult for farmers, contractors, alternative energy aficionados, those concerned about Peak Oil, and small-scale entrepreneurs to obtain good, accurate information on producing alcohol, or on converting vehicles to run on alcohol fuel. And with all the conflicting news stories about ethanol, the public finds it difficult to sort fact from fiction. This text, which has been reviewed by scientists around the world, is the definitive reference work on alcohol fuel. Alcohol Can Be A Gas! contains 640 8-1/2 by 11 pages, with 514 charts, photos, and illustrations to reinforce the information-dense text. The book is geared for the nonscientific reader, but its 473 endnotes provide the technical foundation behind the accessible prose. A 700-word glossary and a 6300-entry index extend the book's usefulness. This book is the distilled essence of the most pertinent information ever assembled in one place on alcohol fuel, the technology that can help us finally become producers of almost limitless energy, instead of extractors of finite resources. How we produce our energy from here on out will determine how we govern ourselves and how we relate to nature and the environment; it will also create a sea change in where wealth concentrates. It will determine if the future is ruled by a small number of armed dictatorships backed by military and industrial interests (a cabal author David Blume likes to refer to as MegaOilron or the Oilygarchy), or if energy, and therefore power, is held by a diffusion of democratic entities, based on their ingenuity and ability to gather a portion of their daily solar income. As Blume writes in the Introduction to Alcohol Can Be a Gas!: "Various prospective publishers argued that putting all of this material into one large volume might scare off readers who just want a recipe book of how to make alcohol. They said, 'All this history and politics is fascinating, but aren't you afraid that including it in your how-to book would scare away some buyers?' 'Put it in a separate publication,' their marketing experts said. But in the final analysis, I decided that this book should be a complete tool kit to revolutionize our transportation energy system, combining a broad, sweeping vision with intricate detail. "I spent four years working on this book with a small team of researchers. I traveled all over the United States in search of the most up-to-date information. In frozen South Dakota, I talked to Orrie Swayze and his farmer and VFW buddies who are taking on the oil companies, and to alcohol combustion engineer and alcohol aviation expert, Jim Behnken. I went to Decatur, Illinois, to see the largest alcohol plant in the U.S., Archer Daniels Midland's 200-million-gallon-per-year plant. My travels also took me to Brazil to document the world's largest alcohol fuel program. "It took over 25 years to finally get this book to you. It represents the confidence of almost 30 people who collectively loaned more than $250,000 to see this project through. It's the most comprehensive book ever written about alcohol fuel. Its production has been a massive effort that has depended on the cooperation of hundreds of people who contributed both their knowledge and, more importantly, their experiences."

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 35 reviews)

Too many words and not enough specifics. by Metro (Minnesota)

3 Stars
October 04, 2009
There is good information in this book but the author sure makes you dig for it. If you can get past all the conspiracy theory and political rants (none of which are backed up by facts) you will get useful information in a very generic overall picture. I was hoping this book would contain a few sections of step by step plans for building a still capable of producing a useful amount of fuel and step by step plans on how to take different feed stocks and make ethanol out of them. Again, there is useful information on these topics and many more but you will need to purchase other books if you want a specific plan. If it contained detailed step by step instructions on building a still that would produce several gallons of fuel I would have rated it higher.

Alcohol Can Be A Gas by Harold R. Juengel (Romeo, MI United States)

4 Stars
August 14, 2009
Good information for the 'Do-it-yourself' kind of handy man. And, not all that complicated to do, if your not. It's an easy read, well researched and written. Highly recommened. H. Roy Juengel

Alcohol fuel for your car--its time is now by Cecil Wilkerson

5 Stars
July 14, 2009
This is the most interesting and informative book I've ever read in this category.Read it if you want to know the truth about how oil and the oil companies have made us slaves to gasoline. This book tells us how to "kick the oil habit" as well as the toxic effects of oil based pesticides and herbicides on our agriculture.It's time to utilize the knowledge we have to create a sustainable and more economical fuel. The knowledge is here, the time is NOW.

Author is a cheat by Marius C. Apostol (Washington DC Metro)

1 Stars
June 29, 2009
Here at popular peasant academy of Bolshoe Goloustnoe (in central Siberia), we, a collective of renowned scientists, saved our budget for past two years so we could buy this book with the hope that the capitalistic american will give us the answer on how we can transport vodka to every house in the village, thru a system of pipelines. We tried before but here is so cold and the pipes freeze and the vodka delivery process stops. If we could transform vodka in a cold gas this problem might be solved. But instead of offering us the solution, the capitalistic pig author teaches us to pour the vodka in the fuel tank. This is blasphemy !!! Vodka was always intended for human consuption in the winter, since the saint scripts from Nikolay Negomivikh The Elder. Now we want to negociate with this band of crooks to be reimbursed for our investment in this worthless book.

Reviewed by K. Lomeli

3 Stars
May 11, 2009
Shipment was expeditious. Received in excellent condition. Don't care for the political commentaries contained within the book, but fascinating overall. Book not for the layman expecting quick, easy answers. Future publication purchased should be forthcoming.

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