"In ""1983,"" Blume wrote and hosted a 10-part television series called ""Alcohol"" as ""Fuel"" for San Francisco's PBS ""station,"" to be released to 140 stations nationwide. His definitive how-to ""book,"" Alcohol Can Be a ""Gas!,"" was to be sold on the air. The book was at the printer and the series underway in San Francisco when oil-funded lawyers halted the nationwide release. This ""time,"" to avoid depending on funding from a single corruptible ""source,"" the publishers raised their money from the alternative community directly."