Now, Thash the Ticket!! ::hic::
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.
I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an no sidewindin bushwackin, hornswaglin, A-rab Venshwellins cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter.
Fun | tree hugging sister | 
May 16, 2006 11:21 am
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Just don’t tell the ATF, or they’ll be coming at you with tanks.
“In what amounts to an honor system, they are to add a poison to their homemade alcohol so it isn’t white lightning.”
BAHAHAHAHA!
and they’re horrible at math, too!
0.85 * $3.00 = $2.55
Last I checked $2.55 isn’t equal to $2.40. Let’s add in the cost of the ethanol:
0.15 * $0.75 = $0.11
So $2.66 definitely doesn’t equal $2.40.
And the cost of the ethanol doesn’t include (I’m betting) the cost of capital or labor.
Oh, and 190 proof alcohol is 5% water, which doesn’t sit well with most cars.
Otherwise, it’s about damn time for me to start making my own liquor (not that I would do so since it’s completely illegal).
Yeah, you either need some zeolites or benzene to break the azeotrope and distill beyond 96% ethanol.
You guys got a still?
Add liquid oxygen and you’ve got a great rocket fuel. Now all one needs is a rocket….and a target.