Newsletter 2004

One of our most exciting events happened in August when we did the SolFest in Hopland. I was on a panel of alternative fuel experts. When it was my turn to speak I quick whispered into my walkie talkie, “Now Carson” and stood up to begin my talk. While I was extolling alcohol’s virtues, there was the sound of a motorcycle getting closer and closer. Suddenly Carson rolls up to the front of the presentation area with his dirt bike, I whip out a bottle of 151 proof rum, take a big slug, hand it to Carson to pour in his tank. He pours and then drives off. The crowd went ballistic.

For the next two days, 5 of us, including investors Valerie Green and Carson, talked nearly non-stop at our booth where we had the bike and a dual-fuel Ford Ranger pickup. The excitement of the visitors was unbelievable. We signed up hundreds of people who want to be notified as soon as the book is ready for sale and quite a few signed up and joined Alcoholics Unanimous to get the first books off the press. Several magazines like Home Power, Hopedance, and Mother Earth News asked us to do stories for their magazines. We were blown away at the appreciation we received and the burning desire to stop putting gasoline in their cars. Any lingering questions we may have had about the potential market are now dismissed. No less than 6 people told us they want to organize coops in their communities!

The same enthusiasm continued last month at the San Francisco Green Festival! Despite the fact that we were put in the furthest corner and separated from our car due to an error on the part of the organizers, our booth was continuously busy with people like you, who were amazed that their car, too, would run on Alcohol!

One of our new supporters whom we met at SolFest, Michael Bock, connected us with Helen Caldicott, the famous founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility and tireless anti-nuclear power activist. That meeting resulted in Dr. Caldicott agreeing to write an essay for our book! Michael, (who became another investor) is getting a tank and will soon be running on alcohol in Marin County.

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