[ok-sus] news about building one's own distillery

[Allison Blanchard]

Below is a newsy letter from Dave Blume. Please let me know if you're interested in him coming to OK to talk about ethanol and/or building our own distillery,
 
See what he says the ATF has been telling people who apply for permits,
 
and see what the oil companies are doing to attempt to stop people from using ethanol in cars, soooooooooo,
 
just thought someone out there might be interested.
 
Allison Blanchard 
 
> From: info at permaculture.com> To: adoc55 at hotmail.com> Subject: Your ACBAG Book Order> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:34:18 -0400> > Dear Allison,> Dear Alcohol Revolutionary:> Thank you for your patience while we have proceeded through the third printing of Alcohol Can Be a Gas!, brought on by the recent media appearances I’ve done. At long last, the new printing will be leaving the bookbindery this week and will be in our warehouse a few days later. It will then take a few days to get the nearly one thousand pending orders packed up and out. They should start going out on September 9th. > Already, the responses to the radio shows have begun to cause change. So many people have applied for distillery permits in the last two months as a result of Alcohol Can Be a Gas! that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms has given up trying to process them!! They have been returning applications to our readers and telling them to reapply after they have built their distilleries!! We have actually turned Federal law on its head with our patriotic and democratic movement to make energy production the province of average people instead of MegaOilron. Obviously, if the Federal Government no longer requires you to get a permit and approval in advance, then no one can be busted for not getting a permit—because there’s nothing in the Federal code that says anything about how soon you have to apply for a permit after you have built your plant. If questioned by the ATF, your answer should be, “I dropped my permit application in the mail yesterday.” In essence, although the ATF would disagree, the need for a permit in advance to produce your own fuel appears not to be legally enforceable any longer. > > There’s more. In the radio shows I recently did, which aired to more than 10 million people, I told people to start putting alcohol in their unmodified cars right now and eventually replace up to 50% of their gasoline. Gasoline sales almost immediately dipped, and, as a result, the oil companies have panicked and sent stories through the Petroleum Marketing Association to all fuel sellers telling them that they might be subject to fines if their stations permit customers to put E-85 in average everyday vehicles. But of course there’s no way that minimum-wage gas station employees are going to keep up telling customers that they can’t put E-85 in their cars. We have received email that at least one station made all employees sign declarations that they would stop people from using E-85 in unmodified vehicles, and one reader was actually told he couldn’t put E-85 in his tank. He was even told he couldn’t fill his gas cans with it. Of course, there are NO laws on the books to prevent people from using E-85 in their cars, whether they are flex-fuel or not. After all, you can buy Dry Gas, Fuel Injector Cleaner, and Octane Booster—products from the auto parts stores—all made essentially from alcohol. Buying alcohol at the pump is no different.> This is incredible. In a few weeks we have scared the stuffing out of MegaOilron with the prospect of Alcoholics Unanimous revolutionaries refusing to empty their wallets into oil company coffers! Just think, if only 30 million commuters, or 10 percent of America, stops buying gas it would mean cutting oil company income by $150 billion dollars per year (at $5 per gallon)—as much as they made in profit last year. > > I know you have been excited by the prospects of what’s in the book. I appreciate your patience while we have tried to catch up with your demand for this information. Soon though, you’ll have your copy and you’ll be a card-carrying member of the ethanol revolution. > > Share. Organize. Win.> > David Blume> Executive Director> International Institute for Ecological Agriculture> 309 Cedar Street #127> Santa Cruz, CA 95060> www.permaculture.com> > > > ---> You are currently subscribed to iiea-updates as: adoc55 at hotmail.com.> To unsubscribe click here: http://host.netatlantic.com/u?id=81450575.1e6979e1e4eefb1e5927026c3b19f707&n=T&l=iiea-updates&o=10349875> or send a blank email to leave-10349875-81450575.1e6979e1e4eefb1e5927026c3b19f707 at host.netatlantic.com> ---> Email delivered by http://www.netatlantic.com/
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