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"Here's the single most important thing you need to know about the IPCC report: It's not too late. We still have time to do something about climate disruption. ...Bottom line: Our house is on fire. Rather than argue about how fast it's burning, we need to start throwing buckets of water." - Bill Moyers

We're not breaking records anymore; we're breaking the planet. In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, 'So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?'"
- Bill McKibben, Rolling Stone, April 25, 2013

We've got to stop burning fossil fuels, fossil carbon, NOW - we know that. But we're helpless, right? We voted for the right guys, what else can we do? We need fuel to drive, we need heat, we need jobs.

What we can do is put a stake in the ground, right here, right now, and set to work. Whatever else we manage in our lives, this is a moral imperative - period.

Take whatever path calls. This site is dedicated to one - locally produced, farm-grown ethanol fuel for transportation and home heating that will be cheaper, renewable, carbon-negative, better for vehicles, and burn clean. It will create jobs and strengthen our farms and local economy.

We all know ethanol is terrible - yes? NO! Inform yourself, break the chains of helplessness and misinformation; let's get together and ACT. In Columbia County, in the Hudson River Valley, NOW. See "Resources" in the menu above.

Why Alcohol Fuel?

From Permaculture.com

  • We can reverse global warming.
  • We can revitalize the economy instead of suffering through Peak Oil; locally produced ethanol supercharges regional economies - it's cheaper for consumers and businesses
  • The byproducts of small-scale alcohol plants are valuable; they can be used in profitable, energy-efficient, and environmentally positive ways.
  • Unlike hydrogen fuel cells, we can easily use alcohol fuel in the vehicles we already own.
  • Scale matters—most of the widely publicized potential problems with ethanol are a function of scale.
  • Almost every country can become energy independent.

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The Oil Industry's Campaign to Discredit Ethanol

From Open Fuel Standard

Here are some of the things the oil industry did to discredit ethanol:
1. Created an "anti-ethanol" information campaign 
2. A professor at UC Berkeley, Tad Patzek wrote a paper in 2005 stating that it takes more energy to make ethanol than you get by burning it 
3. Came out with a paper saying that ethanol only produces the same amount of energy as it takes to make it, and that its lower pollution would be offset by the loss of rainforests to grow crops for ethanol.

[In the "Controversies" section of this web site you'll find scientific and common sense refutations of this misinformation.]

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