Costco has a large bottle of vodka that rings in at 13.99 for 1.75L. At that price it seems like it would be a pretty good deicer. I have seen and heard anecdotal stories about using vodka for this, but have any of you tried?

seems like alcohol abuse to me! But in a pinch, it should work.

Good use for vodka, save the good booze for drinks!

BENSON – The truck traffic near the Chippewa Valley Ethanol Company is constant. Trucks loaded with grain drive into the facility, in west central Minnesota just west of Benson, and tankers loaded with ethanol drive out. Surrounded by a security fence and fields waiting for spring planting, the ethanol plant looks like a Hollywood version of the typical Midwestern rural factory.

But ethanol isn’t the only liquid being produced by the 49 employees in this plant. CVEC and its 930 farmers are also one of the nation’s premier providers of beverage-grade alcohol, especially organic wheat, rye and corn alcohol used to make vodka. Its work with organic farms has been cited as a factor in its success.

“I don’t know much about the ethanol business, but I can tell you they distill a very good vodka,” said Joe Magliocco, president of Chatham Imports in New York City. Chatham produces Crop Vodka, one of five that come from CVEC.

http://www.minnpost.com/greater-minneso ... a-movement

Here ya go. Save a little money. Still seems high for Vodka though......
http://www.bevmo.com/Shop/ProductDetail ... /_/R-4-541

How about using some of that blue windshield washer fluid for deicing? Not as much fun to talk about as vodka, but a lot cheaper than any vodka I've ever seen.

Make sure you don't use thd "california" blue windshield deicer, it protects against freezing to 0 dg. Celsius, and it's basically worthless.

I tried using rubbing alcohol once. I made a big mess. It was around 0F and the water just refroze in globs.