THE ROAD TO ETHANOL

摘要

Alcohol Can be a Gas: Fueling an Ethanol Revolution for the 21st Century by David Blume (International Institute for Ecological Agriculture, $47) is a phonebook-sized collection jam-packed with political cartoons, historical images and how-to articles. Ethanol has a fascinating past. In the early 1900s, it was called ethyl and every farmer in the bread basket used it to power machinery. In the 1930s, Prohibition destroyed the distilleries, making way for the oil economy.