Are Backyard Ethanol Brewers an Answer to High-Priced Gas? Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
A company banking on drivers' weariness of skyrocketing gasoline prices unveiled a home refinery device on Thursday offering another option: ethanol. E-Fuel Corporation says its EFuel100 MicroFueler can produce up to 35 gallons (132 liters) of ethanol a week that consumers can pump directly into their cars and trucks.
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Posted: 4 months ago by kidsizedcoffin:
Sounds like a good way to get drunk, and also drive, although, not necessarily at the same time.
A lot of states have laws that require that ethanol have chemicals added to it to make it non-drinkable, in order to avoid the "sin" taxes placed on the distillers of actual ethanol liquor.
Should this practice enter the home, I don't think it would be long until this regulation was bypassed.
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Posted: 4 months ago by pocksucket:
I have to say I skimmed the article rather than reading it in detail, but is there any reason you shouldn't drink this stuff?
I've no idea about consumption for ethanol cars, but 35 gallons is a lot by anyone's standards.
Now I hate to see waste, so I feel like it'd be almost a duty to sip the remainder slowly, over ice, with the mixer of my choosing.
EDIT: due to slowness on my part, Kidsized posted the above while I was typing this and doing several other things, hence the overlap.
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Posted: 4 months ago by breex243:
« kidsizedcoffin : Sounds like a good way to get drunk, and also drive « pocksucketis there any reason you shouldn't drink this stuff? ...well, it seems pretty clear what we Plimates think about first when new technology comes around the block. "Will it blend get us drunk?"
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Posted: 4 months ago by letter10:
this is pretty cool technology really. of course my car won't run on ethanol so i would only be purchasing one for the above comments about hydration.
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