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Contractors:

• Learn how to make your own fuel for less than $1 per gallon. And ... get the government to pay you $.61 per gallon to use that fuel!
• Triple your engine life. Cars engines can get up to 500,000 miles running on ethanol.
• Learn 6 different ways to convert diesel vehicles to run on ethanol.
• Earn money helping others develop their own ethanol plant

Farmers:

• Learn how to make your own fuel for $.45 per gallon. And ... get the government to pay you $.61 per gallon to use that fuel.
• Learn 6 ways to convert a diesel engine to run on ethanol.
• Learn how to make more money raising non-traditional energy crops than raising traditional crops.
• Earn profit by utilizing distillery by-products as animal feed and as fertilizer
• Learn how to establish a fuel station in town and sell your surplus ethanol
• Improve soil by rotating high-value energy crops into current crop rotation
• Create substantial off-season income
• Create an economic engine that can vitalize the family farm

Airplane owners:

• Alcohol has oxygen built in. Fuel becomes more efficient at higher altitudes.
• Extends engine life - avoid thousands of dollars in expensive engine rebuilds.
• Alcohol is 105 octane and much cheaper than leaded Avgas.
• Burns much cooler and cleaner than gas.

City Administrators and Planners

• Learn how to produce ethanol from municipal biomass, for example, cattails in sewage treatment systems.
• Learn how to set up an ethanol filling station and save money operating the municipal fleet.
• Earn money selling fuel to the public.

Self-Sufficiency Enthusiasts and Do-It-Yourselfers:

• Ideal for self-sufficiency - alcohol is a universal energy supply.
• Learn how to use ethanol as a motor fuel, as a co-generation fuel to generate electricity and heat, or even for cooking, cooling or lighting.

• Take your knowledge to the next level and learn to distill your fermented mash to fuel alcohol.

Teachers:

• Get your students attention! Learn how fermentation, distillation, and vehicle conversion are great applications for teaching biology, physics, and chemistry.

Permaculturalists:

• Learn how to produce solar based fuel along with valuable co-products such as food, fertilizer, and animal feed.
• Learn valuable plant guilds for energy and food crops in a wide variety of climates.
• Learn how to use ethanol as a motor fuel or as a co-generation fuel to generate electricity and heat or for cooking and lighting.
• Learn how to create a fully integrated food/fuel agricultural system.

Intentional Communities:

• Learn of a micro-distillery model that provides food and fuel self-sufficiency and can serve as the economic heart of the community.
• Learn how to create an environmentally regenerative model farm that creates jobs and provides valuable products for generating revenue.
• Learn how to create a Community Supported Energy (CSE) co-op that can provide low priced fuel to community members.

Community Development Corporations:

• Learn how fuel and food production from a micro-distillery can serve as the economic engine for revitalizing depressed communities.
• Learn how a combination farm/micro-distillery can create many jobs, produce valuable fuel and food products, and generate much needed revenue.
• Learn how to keep expenditures for food and fuel inside the community.
• Learn how to create a model that can be duplicated/exported to other areas.
• Learn how to create a Community Supported Energy (CSE) co-op that can provide low priced fuel to community members.

Environmentalists:

• Learn an achievable plan for stopping, and ultimately reversing, atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions while eliminating all need for imported oil.
• Learn of a model that can transform industrial agriculture into a diversified, localized system that eliminates all waste effluents, provides more humane treatment of livestock, and produces plentiful organic food.
• Learn how ethanol as a fuel source can be non-polluting and carbon neutral.
• Learn how to convert your gasoline or diesel engine to run on clean burning ethanol.
• Learn how ethanol production can eliminate the need for herbicides and GMO crops.
• Learn how to save on fuel dollars and improve air quality at the same time.

Peak Oil Groups:

• Learn how ethanol can be produced in an environmentally sustainable manner and in enough quantity to completely offset the impact of Peak Oil, while increasing our food supply.
• Learn how to make your own fuel and sell any excess fuel to your friends.
• In a post petroleum world fuel will be as valuable as any sort of currency.

Anyone Concerned About Climate Change:

• Learn an environmentally sensible, achievable plan for stopping, and ultimately reversing, atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions while eliminating all need for imported oil.

Fleet Owners and Operators:

• Learn how to make your own fuel for $.45 per gallon. And ... get the government to pay you $.61 per gallon to use that fuel.
• Learn 6 different ways to convert diesel vehicles to run on ethanol
• Learn how ethanol can triple your engine life.

Sustainably Oriented Consumers:

• Learn how to operate your car on less expensive ethanol
• Learn how to find ethanol that has been produced in an environmentally sustainable manner by a Community Supported Energy co-op.
• Learn how to save on fuel dollars and improve air quality at the same time.

Biofuel and Renewable Energy Enthusiasts:

• Learn how to make your own ethanol for $.45 per gallon. And ... get the government to pay you $.61 per gallon to use that fuel.
• Learn 6 different ways to convert diesel vehicles to run on ethanol
• Learn how to produce ethanol in an environmentally sustainable manner.
• Learn how to build and operate a mini-distillery that can create fuel and food self-sufficiency, with excess production to sell to your friends and community.

• Learn how to turn your produce waste into valuable fuel.
• Eliminate landfill costs for disposing of damaged produce.
• Learn how to convert your fleet to run on fuel you produce, and at the same time receive a 61 cents/gallon tax credit.
• Learn how to use the by-products from a micro-distillery to produce many valuable food items and generate additional produce revenue.

• Alcohol burns cooler than gas and can run far richer than stoichiometric.
• Alcohol is 105 octane and tolerates 18:1 compression.
• Get up to 40% increased horsepower.
• Unlike methanol, alcohol will not damage engine or seals - eliminates need to tear down and repair engine.
• No special fuel delivery system needed with ethanol as opposed to methanol.

• Ethanol is much less expensive than $5/gallon gasoline marinas sell.
• Ethanol exhaust does not stink.
• Ethanol won’t stall your engine due to water in the gas since alcohol absorbs the water.
• Ethanol cleans sludge out of your fuel system caused by the interaction between moisture and gasoline.
• Boat stoves running on alcohol are much more pleasant than odiferous kerosene stoves.