Set up a still and brew your own ethanol from food waste and yard scraps. It can be done...though it isn't cheap!
My suggestion for all of the folks in the Desert South-West and California:
1) Put solar collectors / Photo voltaic everywhere you can
2) Use some of the solar electricity to split water via electrolysis into Hydrogen and Oxygen
3) Compress the Hydrogen using solar energy
4) Run your car on Hydrogen and dump the 02 back into the air
After substantial setup costs...which you could probably get some killer tax breaks for...you're using free energy from the sun, not paying a huge mark-up to any massive foreign oil corporations, and contributing zero atmospheric carbon with no pollution.
Of course, if you burn the hydrogen instead of using it in a fuel-cell battery, it can be pretty dangerous, but still has no net effect and produces nothing but water vapor.
Electricity is cheap up here in the NW because of all our Hydro and Wind. If I could have a fully electric "third" or "fourth" car at a good price, I would totally add it to my daily driver slot. If I could run it on solar and wind, even better. Then I'll go nutz in the Camaro on weekends!
Basically, as far as CO2 is concerned, I love it in my beer
, but I think throwing 27 billion metric tons of
anything into the atmosphere each year is a pretty bad idea.