Actually, Jeff, here in metro Atlanta, it is ILLEGAL to sell windshield
wiper fluid that goes below +20 degrees Fahrenheit.  It's against the air
quality rules.

On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@gmail.com
> wrote:

> The answer, then, is to use cheap vodka. Problem solved. QED.
>
> Now the only remaining question is whether ethyl alcohol will damage
> paint or rubber and plastic bits downstream on the vehicle. If not, then
> I believe I have a solution. In a manner of speaking.
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.
>
> On 02/09/2014 03:19 PM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>
>> ---- Angus Gordon <birdworks@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Rocket J,
>>>
>>> Listen to your ice scraper. Go back to the warm indoors and apply the
>>> alcohol based fluids in Erienmeyer or other flasks directly to your
>>> digestive tract. Soon the urge to travel will diminish.
>>>
>>>
>> Just for safety, keep in mind that most deicing fluids used for
>> automobiles are isopropyl, not ethyl alcohol.  Recipes for homemade that I
>> have seen call for that, also.   :-) .
>>
>>
>>> Angus
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 9, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Rocket J Squirrel <
>>> camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>
>>>  When ice forms overnight on my windshield, it's sometimes as hard and
>>>> slick as glass. My handy-dandy ice scraper just slides over it. I get
>>>> good results using the aerosol can of de-icing solution, but I wonder if
>>>> I could save some money by mixing my own (Erlenmeyer flasks, dry ice
>>>> bubbling in beakers of colored water) and keeping it in a Windex-type
>>>> spray bottle?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
>>>> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
>>>> Bend, Ore.
>>>>
>>>
>> --
>> David McNeely
>>
>>