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Alcohol Can Be a Gas Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century

Alcohol Can Be a Gas Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century

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.”

User Ratings and Reviews

5 Stars Alcohol Can Be a Gas!
This is a great book for the thinking citizen! Compared in price, and size, of other books on `alternative energy’, David Blume delivers. That said, the driving idea behind the successful use of the information provided does depend on the individual and (convincing) their/our! community to accept past, and future wisdom of basic principles. The hardback version I purchased here at amazon.com with delivery, was well worth the money. Yet if price is any sort of stumbling block, buy the paperback, read it, lend it to someone who will read it… and both parties will find a bushel of reachable dreams to live now, and for the future of this country, and world.

Since this book is intended to inspire a working ideal across a vast range of climates and social structures to implement fairly complex (yet easy to understand) set(s) of inter-dependent systems, each producing valuable products, it is a bit vague on specifics in certain areas concerning {finding} `by-products’. Still, it is certainly detailed concerning alcohol as a fuel; making it, using it, modifying engines to use it, and in providing the sense to do so. This book embodies `what the real America is all about’!

5 Stars The “Bible” of alcohol production and use
The definitive journal on all aspects of alcohol as a fuel. My only regret is that I missed meeting David Blume in person to thank him and shake his hand when he came to my town for a book signing. In this book the history of alcohol and its place in the current energy formula is explained. Practical applications that each of us can do to use alcohol for fuel and develop our own fuel are explained. David Blume outlines on how we can free ourselves of dependence on foreign sources of energy and boost our economy in the process. This book should be required reading for all Americans. If you are interested in green energy, want to be informed and learn how you can become more involved in domestic green energy production, than buy this book.

3 Stars Good ideas…too much information
Once you get past Blume’s ranting and raving over his dislike for republican politicians, and once you get by his crying about how his tv show was pulled from public television supposedly by oil companies in the early 80’s, you come to realize that this book actually has some good information.

I feel the book had too much information in it for a single read and should have been broken into many smaller books such as one book on organic farming, another on ethanol creation and a third book on Blume hates republicans and the oil companies.

As you read this book it becomes apparent that Blume is knowledgable in the aspects of ethanol creation and organic farming, but that leads to the question why doesn’t Blume start his own ethanol business? You get from the book in his rants is because oil companies won’t allow it. For me that is what competition is all about. If you make a superior product, which I believe ethanol is, and you can deliver it to the customer at a reasonable cost, the customers will buy it, and all the oil lobby money in the world won’t be able to stop it.

However after reading this book it is apparent Blume is not much of a competitor and is probably why he doesn’t start his own business. It sounds like his solution is for every American to grow their own food and create their own fuel which history has shown is a losing effort.

I am giving this book 3 stars because there is valuable information in here about ethanol creation and the harmful affects of gasoline so I would recommend the read, but do not let this book be your be all end all for ethanol education.

5 Stars Aussie delivery
Excellent book with lots of inspiration , both detail and broad overview.

i wish i could buy 10 copies and show politicians ,farmers and friends…

Delivery to Australia was super quick.

Redleg

5 Stars It’s worth it.
I’m no rocket scientist so I was worried that I would not be able to understand the techno part of this book. It is an easy read. Makes me feel very smart and I am learning a lot. I am going to make a backyard still and produce alcohol from the info in the book. The history and politics of alcohol fuel was also very interesting. It changes how I think about energy and the sources. It provides options to our current energy dilemma and having options is always a good thing. Good book if you want practical, concise facts and figures with how to info.

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