The Answer to high Gas Prices.....

by ThiChi 159 Replies latest social current

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  Mr Ben

  Old Dr. Diesel?s Invention was originally designed to run on various fuels inc. vegetable oil so farmers could grow their own fuel. Under the European CAP we pay some farmers not to grow anything! Obcene really.

  Extract from: http://www.veggievan.org/

  Dr. Diesel?s Invention

  Dr. Rudolf Diesel actually invented the diesel engine to run on a myriad of fuels including coal dust suspended in water, heavy mineral oil, and, you guessed it, vegetable oil. Dr. Diesel?s first engine experiments were catastrophic failures. But by the time he showed his engine at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900, his engine was running on 100% peanut oil. Dr. Diesel was visionary.

  In 1911 he stated ?The diesel engine can be fed with vegetable oils and would help considerably in the development of agriculture of the countries which use it.? In 1912, Diesel said, ?The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. But such oils may become in course of time as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of the present time.? Since Dr. Diesel?s untimely death in 1913, his engine has been modified to run on the polluting petroleum fuel we now know as ?diesel.? Nevertheless, his ideas on agriculture and his invention provide the foundation for a society fueled with clean, renewable, locally grown fuel.
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  Pleasuredome

  hooray!! for mr diesel. right i'm just going to fill up my golf TDi with chip oil. how much does that cost me? oh, just a couple of pence a litre! lovely! now i'm already to drive down the road. oh, but hang on one moment! who's just turned up? it's pc plod. he says if i want to drive my car with that fuel on the roads, i'll have to pay 70p in fuel tax per litre! doh!! just when i thought we'd save the enviroment and allow ourselves and small businesses to save a lot of money, our very own goverment f*** us up, AGAIN, unintentionally on purpose.
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  Undaunted Danny

  I love the diesel,however it usually emits many times more carbon particulates(soot),than a gasoline eng.

  What is our solution? It is the HYDROGEN INITIATIVE it is the wave of the future!
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  Simon

  "Drive the new Ford Hindenburg SUV today"

  ... just don't crash !!

  LOL
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  Realist

  princess,

  you are nothiung but a [edited]. its very sad (for the entire ecosystem) that people like you exist.

  Dan,

  agree to disagree on jesus car? sure!

  agree that SUVs are not an insanity? No. these cars burn 50% more fuel than a normal car for the sole purpose of transporting its own weight.

  the world is burning 73 million barrels of gas per day! and what we burn in less than 200 years took millions of years to form.

  avishai,

  biodiesel sounds good but it doubt it that the agricultural sector could ever produce enough oil. the world consumes roughly 12 BILLION liters of oil per day. thats about 2 liter per person...way more than the agricultural sector can provide in calories stored in food.

  only long term hope is fusion energy...without that people like princess will have to cut back on their SUV use!
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  Special K

  Thanks to those two links Simon.

  Very interesting..so i guess thinking that SUV's are safer is not true. Oh well, I would have thought that too. I didn't realize the SUV's were so prone for roll overs.

  I guess I'll have to stick to my van for now. Cheaper to run than an SUV.but fits us all in . We just pop a car carrier on the top for vacation (once a year) and we are off.

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  I did see a TV. show the other day that said the safest Large trucks in the world is the 18 wheeler big rigs in England. I think you call them louries over there. They have an added flat type of bumper that is really low in the front. Therefore if they hit lower vehicles they don't rip the top off the cars. Great invention and now they are thinking of adding this to the back of your big rigs so that cars cant crash into the back of them and go in under the truck.

  Sometimes the answers (as in this case is simple).. to prevent less deaths.

  As far as trading my Van in for a SUV.. I'm quite comfortable in the van and it does burn less gas. My van has a 5 star safety rating I think. It can hold 8 people so that is plenty. I don't know of an SUV that holds more than 8 passengers but I could be wrong.

  sincerely

  Special K
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  Princess

  princess,

  you are nothiung but a presumptuous brat. its very sad (for the entire ecosystem) that people like you exist.

  You know absolutely nothing about me. You call me ignorant and presumptuous and a brat all because our plumbing company bought an Excursion to advertise the company while I drive it around town.

  I also eat meat and am careless with my use of paper towels.

  Oh! and I water my large lawn all summer long.
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  Dan-O

  Forming oil in a few years? No, Simon. That wasn't what I was trying to say. I'm sure that the process takes quite a long time when done naturally. Rather, my thought was that plants and animals have been dying throughout the ages, and if that's where oil truly originates ... then it would seem as though more petroleum would be in process, right?

  And as for SUVs being an insanity, Realist ... I think there's an easy way to reduce the consumer demand for SUVs: bring back the full size automobile. When was the last time you saw a Caprice or a Roadmaster or a Country Squire station wagon on the showroom floor? Something with enough room to seat a family comfortably, with sufficient horsepower & torque to haul the load?
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  Undaunted Danny

  There are variables to the HYDROGEN INITIATIVE besides controlled thermonuclear fusion.There are ways to tap the hydrogen atom besides nuclear fusion.

  The fusion process if used is cleaner than fission because you don't get the waste problem of heavy isotopes.

  Hydrogen is a win win win solution.

  The Internet is 'green' I stay home bound more now. Many task that I used to go out for are accomplished from my home PC.
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  xjw_b12

  LOL imagining what Realist is going to look like with SUV tire tracks on his body!

  And don't think it's just Oil Companies who are making profits. The levels of Government aren't complaining. It was reported here in the newspaper the other day, that for every 1 cent increase the retail price of gas, the Federal Government collects an additional $ 32 million dollars per year in extra GST tax.