tiffles
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Beth said:
LOL yay my friends diesel is run on old oil aswell, it always smells like fish and chips! yuuuuum. when you go driving you get reeeeally hungry.
she is saving a crapload though!
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LOL yay my friends diesel is run on old oil aswell, it always smells like fish and chips! yuuuuum. when you go driving you get reeeeally hungry.
she is saving a crapload though!
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tiffles said:LOL yay my friends diesel is run on old oil aswell, it always smells like fish and chips! yuuuuum. when you go driving you get reeeeally hungry.
OMG...If they used McDonalds french fry oil...I would save on gas prices and spend more on fast food. I love McDonalds french frys. I would be about 200 pounds too, which may cause me to have to pay for more fuel, to lug my fat self around.
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That's crazy! Imagine pulling into McDonalds in the future to get some food and then fill up your gas tank! Anyway, for the people who've tried the gas to old oil conversion, do you come out of smelling like grease or does the smell stick to your clothes? Jus' wondering. Kinda like when you leave a Korean BBQ.
Anyway, for the people who've tried the gas to old oil conversion, do you come out of smelling like grease or does the smell stick to your clothes? Jus' wondering. Kinda like when you leave a Korean BBQ.
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Bill
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I'm just glad I swapped vehicles with my wife, who doesn't need to drive nearly as much as I do. She works from home & I have a 32-mile round trip commute every day. I now drive the Civic. I went from getting about 15 or 16mpg in the city to 27 or 28.
tiffles
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yee haa i love hondas. my mum has a jazz and its about 4.8L per 100km. heaaaaps better than some of the hybrids we have here
shamus63
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Between 33-40 mpg...plus fun factor!
Colin
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James, I'm having a hard time keeping up with your avatarsshamus63 said:Between 33-40 mpg...plus fun factor!
shamus63
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Colin said:
I change avatars like basses.
Big Poppa
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Hey kids while we are on this energy rant, check out what Brazil is doing. UYsing sugar cane/ethanol they will be totally energy independent within two years with a renewable source.
the warped tour is largely feuled by biodiesel.
the warped tour is largely feuled by biodiesel.
Don't mention fuel prices - we are up to £1.00 per litre of fuel here in the UK - and I drive a car that returns around 8 miles per gallon
I know a few of you forumites (Steve Dude, BP etc.) are into classic autos. I drive a Jensen Interceptor III - British sports Grand Tourer from the early 70s with a Yank Chrysler 440 cci V8 - sounds awesome but drinks more than Mel Gibson on a night out!
I know a few of you forumites (Steve Dude, BP etc.) are into classic autos. I drive a Jensen Interceptor III - British sports Grand Tourer from the early 70s with a Yank Chrysler 440 cci V8 - sounds awesome but drinks more than Mel Gibson on a night out!
tiffles
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v v smart. aus offered 10% ethanol fuel but people were told it would void their new car warranties...it burns too hot and clean apparently. so people boycotted it, i used it cause mine is an old bastard and he was fine.
LowDownDave
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Jim_F said:Don't mention fuel prices - we are up to £1.00 per litre of fuel here in the UK - and I drive a car that returns around 8 miles per gallon
I know a few of you forumites (Steve Dude, BP etc.) are into classic autos. I drive a Jensen Interceptor III - British sports Grand Tourer from the early 70s with a Yank Chrysler 440 cci V8 - sounds awesome but drinks more than Mel Gibson on a night out!
Never heard of those before, just looked one up on t'internet. Sweet ride, I'm surprised they can squeeze a V8 under that bonnet! But as you said with fuel prices over here, as much as I like classic American muscle, I'm glad I'm not running one in this country!
LowDownDave
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tkarter said:
Nah, they'll either have to sell off the french fries really cheap to keep up with oil requirements (assuming the french fries must be fried first before the oil can be used) or there'll no longer be a heavy demand for "motor" oil, and we can just fry our "chips" in that
SteveB
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I thought I heard that Ford is actually developing cars designed to run on ethanol. Yeah, I just googled them and they have a few 2007 models (Crown Victoria FFV, Grand Marquis FFV, Town Car FFV, and some of the F-Series.) It appears that "FFV" = Flexible Fuel Vehicle.
Interesting, eh?
Interesting, eh?
adouglas
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SteveB said:
Actually that's E85, which is 85% ethanol, 15% gasoline. The good part is that they can also run on straight gasoline, which means you're not tied down to the ethanol infrastructure (which is sparse).
The problem with ethanol is that the production process we use in the US, which is corn-based, consumes more energy to create the ethanol than the ethanol yields. Brazil, which uses sugar cane, burns the waste product of the process to fuel the ethanol plant and winds up with excess energy that they sell back to the electrical companies. So they get a net gain, while we just wind up using more energy (and consuming food that can feed starving people, which makes NO sense to me...ever stop to consider what's going to happen to food prices if we start using a big chunk of arable land to make fuel to feed our SUVs?).
So why don't we use sugar cane? Same reason that just about every processed food product in your pantry has corn syrup in it whether it needs it or not. Special interest groups and politics.
