Re: Yikes! Diesel $4.50/gallon

Tom Plunket schrieb:
> PerfectReign wrote:
> 
>>> Last fill, I put 2 gallons of petrodiesel in to fill the tank, but 
>>> that's the first time I've been to the filling station in months.
>> I see many posts - both here and on places like benzworld - where they
>> completely deride single-tank systems for using 100% WVO and the cold
>> climates.
> 
> Yeah, I don't know that it'd work very well unless you kept your car
> garaged, never parked it outdoors for long, and maybe even had a block
> heater.  Or blend it with petrodiesel, but still- my experience starting
> my car in the (barely) freezing weather is that it is Not Easy.  If I
> lived in VT, I'd definitely go not only dual-tank but also route coolant
> through my veggie oil.
> 
> Down in SoCal, though, dual-tank is a waste of energy.  :)
> 
>> So you filter your own? Do you collect as well?  I'm thinking it would 
>> be easier - and more convenient - for me to have it delivered already 
>> filtered in 50 gallon containers. I see rates in the middle $2/gallon 
>> around here.
> 
> Yeah, that sounds like a ticket.  $2/gallon seems steep for something
> that's already been sold once, but if they're bringing it to your house
> I could see it being worth it.  Plus you wouldn't need to worry about
> running out (I'm always right on the edge; the two 50-gallon drums in my
> shed have less than five gallons a piece in them, although I've got
> about 20G to pour tomorrow and another 50 or so for the coming weeks).
> So I also have a garage full of vegetable oil jugs yet-to-be-filtered,
> and it kinda stinks.

So finally we are back in the fourties now when on cold days one had to 
put a hot water bag around the carburetor to stop icing. In those times 
many prefered wood gas generator engines here in Europe.

http://www.gengas.biz/english/gengas.html

I like the idea of a 560 SEC with that kind of generator

http://www.license-plates.ch/images/holzgas.jpg

must be around 1964 with that Ford Taunus 17m


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Roland Franzius