I can't believe how many people have thanked me for getting them to look at and into alcohol stoves for backpacking. I am happy to have made so many converts. Those of us who already use them quickly forget how even we viewed them with disdain before we actually tried one out. Then quickly got the bug to make them. People, here we are on a camping/ hiking newsgroup, all enviromentally minded , recycling concious, yet we drag white gas,kerosene and propane powwered camping gear into the wilderness day in and day out. I don't know about you but I was always taught petroleum _base_d fuels are enviromentally damaging. Unlike alcohol which evaporates and easily mixes with water and is made from corn and wood which doesn't come from the middle east, funding some terorrists pocket book. I love my Alcohol soda can stove, How about you? Look at one, Want one, Need one, copy one, don't want to build one, here is one : FOR SALE: Pre-made perfectly constructed aluminum can alcohol backpacking stoves. Will boil over 3 cups of water in 6-7 minutes with only an once of fuel (alcohol). Weighs less than an ounce (0.3 oz.). The majority of people completeing thru-hikes of the Appalachian Trail use soda can alcohol stoves. Correctly made ,perfectly made, BEST, Alcohol stove:
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"Every day, millions of people up and make full use of even the most difficult situations. There are also some who just sit doing nothing, and complain without end, they will not get anything. The results stem from the action. Think about it ".35-year-old traveler from South Africa, Riaan Manser, not only thinking of the action. 8. July at 15:20 local time successfully completed another feat. After 11. months, he managed Africa's largest island - Madagascar. Purpose of the chosen who was not due to sympathy for the well-known heroes of the American animation, but that looking at the map of Africa, said that there have never been. The route of the expedition led Tamatave on the east coast, as opposed to clockwise in the north. Previously, Riaan Manser Africa by bicycle. The route had 37,000 kilometers, and led by 34 countries. 
