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Did you know that straight alcohol or moonshine was the original auto fuel that all cars ran on?

Henry Ford’s Model “A” was designed to run on either alcohol OR gasoline, whichever was available to the driver! Except during Prohibition, (the passage of which was funded to the tune of $4 millon dollars by Rockefeller) alcohol has been available at the pump until the end of WWII. Oil companies over the past 100 years have deliberately made sure that gasoline remains the only commonly available auto fuel.

The Spark advance lever was used of changing ignition timing when going from fuel to fuel or accelerating.

Can we grow food and fuel too? Essentially all of America’s corn crop is fed to animals and that they are not evolved to eat it? 80% of raw corn fed to livestock is not digested. If feed corn is first fermented to alcohol fuel, the concentrated spent grain can still be fed to cattle resulting in greater weight gain than if the cattle were fed the original grain. The byproduct of this highly improved animal feed is pollution-free alcohol fuel! The American farming community has the potential ability to revolutionize the way Americans produce their food and fuel their vehicles, moving away from monoculture gene modified crops while releasing our nation from dependence on foreign oil imports. The table to the right, Major Uses of Corn In 1980 (Source USDA), shows Alcohol Fuel topped the ways corn was used. .

Did you know there is a $1500 tax credit for either purchasing an alcohol-fueled vehicle or converting a vehicle to alcohol! Buying a new bus or heavy truck that runs on alcohol earns a $37,500 tax credit and there is a $100,000 tax deduction for installing a fueling station with new tax credits proposed.

Go to the head of the line!

Did you know that single drivers of alcohol-fueled cars are legally allowed to drive in the commuter lanes on U.S. highways!

Additionally, alcohol-fueled taxis and vans go to the head of the lines at airports and do not pay airport fees.

Did you know that in this day of $2.30 a gallon gasoline, you can make alcohol today for only 43 cents per gallon on the small scale and $1 on the big commercial scale?

Did you know you can get a $.63-$1.40 per gallon tax credit for every gallon of alcohol fuel produced or burned in your car?

Use 1200 gallons this year and take $756-$1680 off your taxes! (See the IRS for details)

Farmers across the country are right now expanding the fuel alcohol industry, thereby invigorating depressed farm communities nationwide while creating pollution-free inexpensive fuel.

In fact, American farmers produced more alcohol in 2002 than the amount of oil the U.S. imports from Iraq. In the Midwest, 300 independent gas pumps already provide alcohol for vehicles. Did you know that in the 1990s, 95% of all cars in Brazil ran on alcohol.

So why isn’t America running on alcohol fuel?

Since WWII, oil companies have been a major part of the power elite that run this country. Witness our current administration run by former oil company executives. Follow the money and read our book.

Alcohol Can Be A Gas! was originally written to accompany the author’s 10 part television series that was produced by PBS station KQED, and aired in 1983. The series was so powerful that oil companies threatened to pull out all their funding if the series was distributed nationally through PBS as scheduled. As a result the series was never seen outside of San Francisco and the printing of the book was stopped at the press even though KQED received thousands of orders. Alcohol Can Be a Gas is not only a “how to” book, it is the story of why oil companies have reason to fear a change in public thinking, nationalism, environmentalism and a renewable industry of alcohol production.