Can You Spot The Stereotype?

A company in Tullahoma, Tennessee has started marketing one of its prducts, a still, as a way to bring down the cost of gasoline. For $1,400, y'all kin git y'self a still an' make ethanol fur .75 a gall'n.

The company is called Dogwood Energy. It employs a guy named Bumpus and the newspaper article shows, among other things, the shop dog named Sam. The assembly warehouse is located next to a creek, down a backwoods road, and there's a rooster on the premises. In order to comply with the law, (and avoid the rev'noors), a customer has to "promise", (nudge, nudge, wink, wink), to add poision to the brew to make it fit for driving but quite unfit for drinking.

Cheapskates, like me, can get the blue prints for $45 and if they're competent salvagers, can probably use the plans to build their own still for less than a grand. And while I'm obviously having some fun at the Billy Joe Bob stereotypes in this article, I will freely admit that their mechanical abilites will save them a bunch of cash on gas, while my mechanical abilities will only save me money because after I put together the still and blow my house and self sky high in the ensuing fireball, I won't be needing to drive anywhere anytime soon.