With drivers feeling the pressure because of the rising costs of gasoline, there is hope by creating ethanol fuel on your own at home. If you have ever tried to make your own beer or wine, making ethanol should not be to difficult since you can ferment any starchy or sugary food or even waste product into a mush that can be distilled to produce 190 proof alcohol.

This ethanol could be used in your car and there may be no modifications necessary, as the vehicle is already suited for E85 ethanol.

Use Dry Corn in Sufficient Quantities.

You need to get some dried corn, which is plentiful, or sugar cane before you can start making ethanol. Make sure that you purchase the correct quantity.

In order for the corn to be converted into sugar, one will require that the corn will need to be ground and it may require a grain mill for this purpose as well add water and cook it at temperatures that will allow for liquefaction. Fermenting and mashing are both necessary to create ethanol.

One should ensure, when making ethanol that all the water content is removed through a process called a molecular sieve which is really a strainer and it should be as fine as possible to get a finer end product.

A product called Zeolyte can also by used, this is a granulated product that works by soaking up the water leaving the longer ethanol molecules alone. To remove the water from the Zeolyte one may broil it on a backyard grill or dry it out in the sun. You can also employ a hydrometer to ensure that the ethanol is 200 proof, and any remaining water will fall to the base when it is mixed with gasoline.

Two to five percent of alcohol is a Federal regulation in making ethanol, however the alcohol needs to be denatured before adding gasoline in order to obtain E85. Prior to using E85 in your car, it is necessary to ensure the car is ethanol compliant.

Following these simple steps should ensure that you have the ability to begin making your own ethanol, and thus become fuel independent.