There are weed-burners that would do the trick for ice, even little hand-held ones that you can just stick a butane canister on. They work quite well for weeds (they tend to die before they can spread seed, it kills the seed too, and they tend to stay-dead for a while after), and can be handy for a quick de-ice.
Pfft. Any ice you can remove with a hand-held weed burner isn't worthy of the name.
Real road ice is thick enough that flame-based removal isn't practical, mainly because of water's crazy-high enthalpy of fusion - and enthalpy of vaporization, if you don't want it to just freeze again right back where it was.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
