Workshops with David Blume

Download the outline for the workshop.

Here is a partial list of cities where we plan to begin setting up workshops in the coming months. Please add your name to our mailing list (look a little to your right), and we'll send out announcements as the dates are finalized.

• Austin TX
• Boston MA
• Chicago IL
• Houston TX
• L.A. CA
• Lincoln NE
• San Diego CA
• St Paul MN
  

The era of cheap fuel is over, and the profitability of small-scale alcohol production is skyrocketing! Now is the time to learn about alcohol fuel. With his new book completed, Dave is beginning to teach full-day workshops in alcohol production and car/equipment conversion. The goal of these hands-on workshops is to give citizens and business people a deep introductory immersion in the amazing benefits of appropriate-scale alcohol production and use.

 Why should you attend Dave Blume's Alcohol Can Be a Gas! Workshops?  

General reasons to attend a workshop:

1. Learn from Dave's 30 years of experience making ethanol/alcohol fuel 
2. Learn how to  make your own fuel for less than $1 per gallon AND receive a $.61/gallon tax credit
3. Earn profit selling fuel to neighbors and gas stations
4. Learn why burning ethanol triples engine life

Click the link that matches you:

• Airplane owners
• Anyone Concerned About Climate Change
• Biofuel and Renewable Energy Enthusiasts
• Boat Owners
• City Administrators and Planners
• Community Development Corporations
• Contractor
• Environmentalists
• Farmers
• Fleet Owners and Operators
• Food Distributors and Grocers
• Home Brewers
• Intentional Communities
• Peak Oil Groups
• Permaculturalists
• Race Car Owners/Drivers
• Self-Sufficiency Enthusiasts and Do-It-Yourselfers
• Sustainably Oriented Consumers
• Teachers

The Alcohol Can Be a Gas workshop is for: anyone who wants to make fuel for themselves or as a small business, farmers looking for new, more profitable ways to use their land, mechanics who want to start doing alcohol conversions, activists who want to start driver-owned alcohol stations in their neighborhoods, experimental aircraft pilots who want to stop using expensive leaded Avgas, anyone who owns a high-performance/race vehicle that needs high-octane fuel, and anyone who is disgusted every time they fill their tank with gasoline or diesel.

As the fossil fuel era ends, alcohol stations will be organized, small alcohol plants will be built, and mechanics will convert cars using the skills they learn in these workshops. The alcohol plants will likely be an association of small enterprises that take the various byproducts of alcohol production and generate other small businesses — which might range from production of mushrooms, earthworm castings, fish, shrimp, high-value greenhouse vegetables, and much more, all using surplus products of the alcohol production. Farmers will want to attend these workshops to connect with retail markets for alcohol they produce, and to learn energy crop strategies for their climates, soil, and local co-product marketing. Those looking to find their place in the renewable energy boom will find many opportunities from which to choose. As the production of petroleum continues to wane, integrated alcohol fuel production will be necessary to provide our communities with a soft landing and robust employment.

Attendance at workshops is limited, and pre-registration is recommended. Tuition, if preregistered, is $195 — or $250 at the door.

Partial worktrade positions may be offered for each workshop, where you help with various chores associated with putting on the event, such as registration, distributing books, working on room set-up, beverages, driving Dave around town when he is doing publicity, and lunch set-up at some courses. A limited number of worktrade positions are available for helping promote the event working with regional organizers. For more information on worktrade, write to info@alcoholcanbeagas.com

Download the outline for the workshop.