[bicyclerepair]

The cost of producing vegetable based fuel is so much higher than buying gas. We're not even close to the break even point yet.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The secret is in the still manufacturer's site (link in post # 11):

" but if it is fuel you are after, you want to burn scrap wood, or anything you can get cheap or free as a fuel source, because you have to minimise your costs and also be adaptable."

In a sense, alcohol production is a roundabout method for converting hog fuel into transportation fuel. I understand that commercial operations burn coal to do the evaporation -- in effect a way of using coal for automobile fuel.