This is Turtle.
Here is one for you to think about. A 100 pound sack of Whole Corn for cattle feed will run about $6.00 and the moon shinners can make 20 gallons of shin Alcohol out of a 100 pound sack of corn. Shin will burn in your care with no gas at all and you can drink it too. It is 190 proof or 95% Alcohol and 55 water. That is the samething as gas 94% gas and 6% water.
Now the Alcohol refining product can be bought at the feed store by the 100 pound sack of corn for $6.00 and makes 20 gallions of Alcohol that can be used as fuel in the auto. Now base gas at $2.00 a gallion and that makes the alcohol replacing the gas as follow here :
20 Gal. of Alcohol sells for $40.00 as replacement for gas.20 Gal. of Gas sells for $40.00 as the gas fuel.
100 # of Corn raw crude to refine is $6.00 . So you have a profit and refining cost of $34.00 for 20 Gal. of fuel / gas.INFO first. A barrel of oil is 42 Gallons and a 1/2 a barrel of oil is 21 gal.
1/2 barrel of oil 21 gal. cost now about $25.00 so crude to make gas to make 20 gal. of gas cost $25.00 . Then $25.00 for crude to make 20 gal. of gas is $25.00 - $40.00 = $15.00 refining cost and profit.$25.00 worth of crude oil makes $40.00 worth of fuel / gas = $15.00 Profit and Refining cost.
$6.00 worth of crude material / oil makes $40.00 worth of fuel / Alcohol / gas = $34.00 Profit / Refining Cost.
So they can refine Corn at $6.00 to make $40.00 worth of fuel or they can refine $25.00 worth of crude oil to make $40.00 worth of fuel. The $6.00 making $40.00 worth of fuel sounds a whole lot better than $25.00 worth of crude to make $40.00 worth of fuel. The Corn is a whole lot cheaper to make the fuel than from Crude oil.
Now the data of the 100 # of Corn can make 20 gal. of Shin is a fact in this part of the country and i can get you to talk to Crocket Johnson who makes shin and check the facts. This is a fact and no bull. Now of cource Crocket wants $20.00 a Gal. for 190 proof / 95% Alcohol shine and it is the good stuff.
Alcohol can be made cheaper than gas now days but with the oil company against it. Alcohol is just too costly to produce.
TURTLE