« The Magic of Staging | Main | Marine Recruiting Office to Be Besieged by Witches »

Micro, Schmicro.

I've got the MACRO fueler!

I take my MACRO pump nozzle, stick it in Barney Frank's fuel receptacle and "fill 'er up" with man gravy!

Ooooh, that makes my leg tingle!

Once you've been declared a ludicrous moron bordering on insanity, where to from there?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354400,00.html

Unfortunately, moonshiners are probbaly gonna be buying these babies up by the hundreds, thus giving the false impression that normal folk give a wino's a$$ about alternative energy.

Looks and sounds like a really expensive home still. When I was a drinking man, it would have been a possibility, for the booze.

In most states there is a legal limit of 200 gallons per year for personal use. ATFE should have a lot of fun with this.

Code Pinko to use Withcraft to stop "The War". Stories like this sort of write themselves. Maybe they drank the bio-fuel from that still?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354400,00.html

"Code Pink is now resorting to witchcraft to beef up the number of its supporters protesting Berkeley's controversial Marine Corps Recruiting Center.

The women's anti-war group has told ralliers to come equipped with spells and pointy hats Friday for "Witches, clowns and sirens day," the last of the group's weeklong homage to Mother's Day.

"Women are coming to cast spells and do rituals and to impart wisdom to figure out how we're going to end war," Zanne Sam Joi of Bay Area Code Pink told FOXNews.com."

In other news, foul mouthed thuggish TV chef Gordon Ramsay demands a government enforced national socialist diet.

Let's see, a gallon is about .1337 cubic feet, and the density of bulk sugar is about 55 pounds per cu ft., so 10 gallons of sugar is about 73.5 pounds.

Bulk sugar from Sam's is about $20.00 per 50 pounds. So all I need is about $29.40 worth of sugar to produce a gallon of ethanol.

Sounds like a great plan! Where can I get one?

What morons! Will somebody make them STOP!!!!

E-Fuel representatives claim that the initial cost of the machine can be offset by up to 50 percent by federal, state and local credits, and the cost of raw sugar can be brought down to $1 or below through a system of carbon trading coupons

So as you can see, ent, you haven't taken into account that the machine runs on special magic economics. It's actually very cheap to run, just as long as the rest of society are forced to subsidise it.

Isn't that the device they used to make Absolut Moonshine for Hillary Clinton to chug in Philly?

I found it before I read it here... Honest! I have the same link on my blog.

The 200 gallon rule somebody cited above applies to wine and beer. Alcohol is taxed at $13.50 per proof gallon. A gallon of 100% ethanol is TWO proof gallons. You have licensing requirements to meet, too. That's the same .gov that's supposed to subsidize this joke.

You can get around the $13.50 per proof gallon by de-naturing the product, but then there's a government supervisory requirement.

In short, unless the government changes a lot of rules, this thing is either illegal or extremely difficult to license.

And that's not even discussing the idea of buying 80 pounds of sugar to make a gallon of fuel. What about the fuel it took to produce those eighty pounds of sugar? Anybody on the treehugger side wanna factor in those fuel costs?

The last I heard, it's legal to make "home brew" if it's "for personal consumption" and you don't SELL it. So it may be OK, but I couldn't swear to it in court.
Still (Pun alert!) it's a silly idea since you could make an old-fashioned distilation outfit with cheep parts from the hardware, plumbing and cooking stores and refine oil! SEE: "Dick's Encyclopedia 1872" (1527. To Purify Petroleum), reprinted in "Granddad's Wonderful Book Of Chemistry by Kurt Saxson" pg 243.

It is stupid no doubt, but quit talking out of your ass, as if distorting/quoting quirks and quacks somehow makes your point(s) valid?

Alternative fuels are not total nonsense if we do not exploit coal and oil in our country (which is my first choice, btw).

Heck even nuclear is distorted, low level nuclear options make total sense if you really want to break it down.

Should fuel be made from something less expensive than its alternative, preferrably a waste product? As I recall, gasoline was once a by-product of the refining of kerosene, which was used in lamps during the 18th century.

You can "make" fuel from just about anything (OK, a slight exaggeration). The question is always, what does it cost to make it? The reason that oil is so economical is that you don't have to "make" it at all. You simply suck it out of the ground (and refine it a bit).

The wonderful thing about a free market economy is that if there is such a wonder waste product that can be cost-effectively converted to fuel, then some enterprising soul will surely discover it and take it to market. And it won't require government subsidies. A simple fact of economics which our socialist friends seems incapable of understanding. If government would stay the hell out of the way, the market would provide the most economical solutions automatically.