I mentioned last week that I took a ride to the US to pick up my copy of Alcohol can be a Gas by David Blume along with a couple other books on Stirling Engines.  I had also ordered a copy of a promotional DVD by David Blume that he made to promote funding for his book.  I think it was the best short trip I have taken in quite a while.  It ended up costing me much less in duty and taxes (even with gas) than having it sent across the border by any shipping company.  Also, I got to catch up on family news with my brother, so a win/win situation for everyone.

I took the lazy way to initiate myself into the books contents, I sat and watched the video of David Blume the night after I returned.  I would not say its quality and special effects are on par with “An Inconvenient Truth” featuring Al Gore – film that is designed to effectively make people uncomfortable in their thoughts on Global Warming (not Bush’s callous belittling of the problem by calling it Climate Change).  There are no forklifts to the sky, just a simple introduction and then a cozy seminar given to a group of people about the history of Alcohol and the ways it has been suppressed.  This is certainly not the history lesson I ever was taught when I was fidgeting in my seat at school.

The book is separated into Six distinct books, and author Blume chooses to begin his tome with the history of Alcohol, he claims it to be the second oldest profession in the world….he doesn’t mention what he believes is the first and I have no intention to go there. 

A DVD to educate you on the way you have been misled and lied to!

The history lesson on the DVD basically covers the first book of his manuscript, it covers the ways Alcohol and the public has been manhandled by Big Oil – or Megaoilron as he disdainfully defines it.   

The video is a disturbing listing of the ways that the use of alcohol (and our personal democratic beliefs) has been eroded simply because MegaOilRon needs to manipulate and use each and every one of us as a deputized agent to dispose of the toxic wastes they produce. I am sure they sit back in their big leather chairs and giggle in their board rooms at the way they have addicted us to their brand of energy and now force us to be their planet killers.  They don’t have to go to any expense to eliminate the toxic wastes they produce, no, they profit handsomely from it, and we are the unwitting accomplices in their drive to kill our planet and our democratic rights as individuals right along with it – They are industry and thus they feel they are the chosen few to topple democracy and make the world into a place where Energy reigns supreme, don’t get me started on the conspiracy to create a one world government with the financial elite deciding what is best for them and destroying public liberty as a desired result. 

Be very clear on this: Every time you start your car or burn gas in any application (I include myself here, as being just as guilty), you are being forced to pay more and more for the gas, and have become the unwitting dupe graciously allowed to use your vehicle to dispose of the toxins that are the leftover mess from distilling oil for all the other products that come from a barrel of oil, and profits that makes.  Gas is not a primary product, it is not even the same formulation each time you pump it into your tank, it changes as the various ratios of toxins left over varies day to day, and even hour to hour. 

Gasoline is the substance that, in the early part of last century, Rockefeller had left over when he created the fuel for street lamps and other lighting for the cities.  Before they could find a use for it, they simply flushed it into the local rivers.  Henry Ford believed that alcohol was the best fuel, and every Model T was a dual fuel machine – able to run on both alcohol and gas, depending on what was available.  Rural farms all had a still to produce their fuel for the farm, and the city had Rockefeller’s and his industrial compatriots’ gas.  

If you believe David Blume – and I do, the Prohibition movement succeeded not as a temperance movement, but as a way for Rockefeller and the Oil industry to destroy the farm still and the independent energy production capacity of the individual.  Rockefeller is said to have provided the Temperance leagues with enough money to buy an all male Congress supported and put in by a drinking electorate, somewhere about 4 or so million dollars at the time – How else would a Congress supported by an all male electorate do something so stupid and self-destructive?

So is the call for ethanol as a fuel a new one….not at all, it is just a try to return to the way things were before the Rockefellers and their banking buddies all got together and made a successful try to eliminate competition to a product that they controlled and made enormous profit from…at the expense of the common farmer and workers.  If there is a price difference between two competing products that do the same job, we should have that possibility available. 

The rest of Book One goes through the economics of Alcohol as a fuel, and it really is not something that big oil and business wants.  The biggest myth is that if you grow crops for fuel, the world will lose its food – they break it down between food or fuel, Blume makes the argument in a sane and reasoned manner, that we get both with alcohol, as all that is removed is the liquid solar energy, the food that is left as a by-product makes cattle and other livestock bigger, healthier and more nutritious.

Big businesses don’t care that the planet is being ruined, and America and Canada’s farmlands raped and destroyed, they want to sell genetically modified seeds and the fertilizer that is required to grow them.  Monsanto is making huge profits, it has been a pick on Cramer’s Mad Money for the simple reason that corn farmers need their seed and fertilizers to grow a crop year in and year out.

Blume has an alternative that big business does not want to hear, it is called permaculture – The International Institute of Ecological Agriculture:

http://www.permaculture.com

Permaculture is the synergistic growth of multiple crops and different rotations that will nullify the need for modified crops and produce natural fertilizers and actually improve the soil over time not destroy it.  He makes the claim he fed 250 people on two acres of land with his methods.  He says critics claim that is impossible. 

The DVD and the Book one go through the ways that this can be done and then points to the country that has done it – Brazil.  They of course had a lot of incentive, they were poor and needed to get their economy on track, they have done it by moving over to use of alcohol as the main fuel, unfortunately overseen by the petroleum industry, but they re doing it, not by cutting down the Amazon, but rather using the Permaculture techniques identified by David Blume in his book, not as a result of his teachings, but by moving back to a closer culture with the natural scheme of things. 

You may have noted recently in the news that Brazil has begun fighting the tariffs on the export of alcohol to other countries, US being a main one in this.  They have enough fuel in alcohol to export it, and the entire economy is almost exclusively alcohol driven, the cars all run on alcohol and their car industry must produce alcohol engines for their cars – a thing the industry said could not be done, but was accomplished within 6 months when they were faced with no other option.

I urge everyone to go out there and get this book, or at least somehow take a look at the DVD – it is as powerful as Who Killed the Electric Car and An Inconvenient Truth, I won’t tell you the presentation is as flashy, it is only a seminar, but the information is some of the most powerful presented.  No wonder the gas companies forced PBS to kill his original series on Alcohol as a fuel.  It could be looked upon as an instructional manual on self-sufficient farming and energy production in the even of total disaster – or a way to thumb your noses at big oil and their plans on world domination trough the subjugation of democratic principles for their profit and power.

I am deep into the Book Two, which is a listing of how to make the actual mash precursor to alcohol, I will give greater details of my thoughts on that in a later comment on the book.  For more details on both the viability of alcohol instead of gas and the ways in which we can work with the planet to grow our fuel and food simultaneously visit the website mentioned above:

http://www.permaculture.com

I don’t say this is the end all and final testament on getting away from oil, but it is certainly a good start at finding new ways to find Energy with-out Oil.