Michael Briggs writes: > >Gasoline as a denaturant would ruin it for use in making biodiesel.
Not at all -- I've done it many times and run it successfully in my Beetle TDI for months on end. "Fuel-grade ethanol" is 200 proof (actually 99.5% anhydrous) grain-derived ethanol, denatured with 2% or 4% gasoline. So little gasoline poses no problem whatever to the biodiesel reaction or subsequent combustion in your diesel engine. It's cheap because it's (almost) exclusively sold in railcar quantities for turning gasoline into gasohol. Occasionally you can find a producer who will sell you a drum at railcar prices, and then you really will pay only $1.50 a gallon or so. Short of you finding such a windfall, I'd take the advice of another poster who suggested you get an Alcohol Fuel Producer permit. Then you can buy or distill pure ethanol with no tax hit. If your interest is environmental, though, be sure your alcohol is always fermentation-based. The so-called "synthetic" ethanol from ethylene is as bad as using petrodiesel. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> 4 DVDs Free +s&p Join Now http://us.click.yahoo.com/pt6YBB/NXiEAA/MVfIAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
