Re: useful analogy

From: Hatunen (hatuunen_at_cox.net)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:35:13 -0600

On 31 Aug 2004 12:36:33 -0700, ziliath@myway.com (ziliath) wrote:

>Jim Richardson <warlock@eskimo.com> wrote in message news:<u7rd02-
>
>> You denature alchohol, and thus, are not
>> making alchohol that falls under the various drink related laws. One way
>> of denaturing ethanol, is to mix a percentage of methanol into it, feel
>> free to drink all you want. Better make an eye appointment first, it
>> won't help, but they can also fit you for a cane and dark glasses at the
>> same time.
>
>Your inability to reason logically is sadly apparent. Before denaturing,
>one has drinkable ethanol, which can be spirited away to bottling plants
>anytime. Therefore during Prohibition the production of it was not allowed
>and would have that impinged on the manufacture of subsequent products
>such as denatured.
>
>> Yes, "industrial ethanol" is, was, and has been, legal to produce in
>> these united states.
>
>Dream on, son.

You are quite wrong. As I posted before, the only restriction was
against making alcohol for beverage purposes. Those firms engaged
in the making of non-beverage alcohol were watched very closely
by the feds, of course.

The simple fact is that ethanol is necessary in some processes.
The alcohol need not have been denatured, but any alcohol to be
placed on the open market would have been.

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