Kick the oil habit and make your own ethanol

He made his own and sold it to the local folks in GA.

came as a result of ingesting his own fine corn product.

He's the one that passed the trade on to my great grandfather. Supposedly while drunk off his own shine and wearing his confederate uniform, he chopped a tree down on himself. My grandfather used to take us by the stump and claim his grandfather still haunts it.

that might have happened in the Wisconsin northwoods--except for the Confederate uniform part.

required to have a license and are limited to 10 gallons production a year?

What I wonder is where you get the appleseeds for this. Are they available through wholesalers? I think that buying greese from fast food places is only going to be viable for a short while. I've already tried getting it from local places where I live and it's hard. Some of the places don't want to bother with it. I'd rather either buy oil bearing products like bushels of rapeseed and crush them in an oil press to make my own vegetable oil or even try growing some in my garden and mixing it with petroleum diesel. But I see very little about an entire homegrown process that doesn't involve periodic hunts to find used cooking oil, the latter solution which I don't like.

bio-diesel is far safer than ethanol

and it comes with a free set of kitchen knives....

The article says that it's designed to run on sugar. You have to buy the sugar and I wonder where you find sugar cheaply enough to make this cost-effective, especially with a machine that costs $10 grand. The article also says this company admits that store-bought sugar is too expensive but that they will hook buyers of the machine up with sources of cheaper sugar from Mexico. I don't think that sounds too easy or reliable, if you have to import sugar from abroad. I heard of a guy on the Internet who makes his own ethanol at home by buying 50 gallon drums of molasses. But even that's hard to find at reasonable prices. And it might be hard nowadays to get a wholesaler to sell that quantity to a private individual. There's also another guy (now deceased) who has an Internet website with the plans to build your own home-based alcohol still from solar power. But again, where do you find the raw materials to make into alcohol in sufficient quantities and at a low enough price for the little guy to be able to make his/her own fuel and by-pass the gluttony of the oil companies?