alcohols

There are some alcohols that are similar in effect to ethanol, but a lot less toxic, more easily transportable, etc.

There have been tricks to fake aged flavors wine, whiskey, and other aged alcohols for centuries.

Or, use fermentation and the like to make alcohols from plants with a high sugar content.

Note that there are different kinds of antifreeze alcohols, and not all of them are legal.

Sugar alcohols can have some unpleasant side effects, which make them unpopular for general use.

Both of those are sugar alcohols, and as such have laxative effects, among other things.

We can't give them specialized alcohols (to say nothing of a spare Li-ion battery)?

Russel-Stover makes sugar-free chocolates, peanut butter cups, and other confections that rely on sugar alcohols and sucralose to replace the missing sugar.

In the 1970s people proposed vitamin fortified alcohols, which would prevent the institutionalization of 1,200 alcoholics yearly (in the 1970s) due to Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.

Beer has quite a bit of sugar, but hard alcohols do not.

The rate of addiction is about 23%[1], compared to alcohols 15%.

This is not true for all sugar alcohols; after exposure to sorbitol over a short period, bacteria can adapt to use it as an energy source.