gas guzzling excursion in front, land cruiser (not really a guzzler but still the dreaded suv) and isuzu npr (not an suv but a guzzler.).
there you have it folks.
all my sins (and steve too) in my driveway.. now i know i'm not alone.
I noticed that some folks are posting photos... but they are saying words like 'a nice car'.
They need to post photos of their car... no matter what it looks like.
This is a 'my gas guzzler' thread... not a 'gee, what I wish I drove' thread.
You know who you are... now post a photo of your car.
*wide grin*
Jim TX
gas guzzling excursion in front, land cruiser (not really a guzzler but still the dreaded suv) and isuzu npr (not an suv but a guzzler.).
there you have it folks.
all my sins (and steve too) in my driveway.. now i know i'm not alone.
Princess...
HOG = High Occupancy Guzzler... right?
Regards,
Jim TX
gas guzzling excursion in front, land cruiser (not really a guzzler but still the dreaded suv) and isuzu npr (not an suv but a guzzler.).
there you have it folks.
all my sins (and steve too) in my driveway.. now i know i'm not alone.
Well... not sure how this thang works... I have tried to include a photo... oh me and my 1998 VW Beetle.
It does very well, and gets me around on about 45 to 50 miles per gallon - which is much better than any Mitsubishi Galant could ever dream of doing.
(If it doesn't show up - you will have to use your imagination. It's sitting in my driveway.)
Regards,
Jim TX
any thoughts on mr. taylor?s claims?.
u.s. demands greater oil output, lower prices.
"finance ministers from the united states and other major industrialized countries, hoping to affect the outcome of a battle within the organization for the petroleum exporting countries, formally demanded yesterday that oil-exporting nations raise production and lower prices to a level 'that is consistent with lasting economic prosperity,'" the new york times reports.
Realist,
"so far i haven't heard from you how your grease fuel is gonna solve the energy problem....STILL waiting! "
I didn't realize that you had asked that question. Basically, bio-diesel helps take the load off of petro-diesel production - which means that we don't pump the wells dry as quickly - so to speak. Sorry if you cannot realize that just by simple logic. Plus, it is less polluting to the atmosphere. Did YOU check out the web site that I put in one of MY replies? Evidently not, or you wouldn't be asking the above question.
"i try to safe energy when possible. there are many ways of doing it...from turning off the electricity in the rooms you are not in to using the bicycle when possible or not turning the heat on when its not required."
So... you are doing no more - or less - than we are over here in the U.S. We, too have 'energy-efficient' buildings. We too, ride bicycles or walk when it is possible, and makes sense to do so. One thing that you may not realize - here in Texas - a walk to the 'corner' grocery store could be a distance of 3 to 5 miles (5 to 8 km for those in metric countries). Not an easy - or short walk, to be sure.
"...one more thing...european cars are more fuel efficient than US cars on average...."
Yes, but what vehicle - specifically - do YOU drive? You are still not answering MY questions, but still giving generic web-site drivel.
Oh well. It is just as I thought. You are full of table-pounding 'what you should do is...' - and very little 'what I am doing..'.
I have seen your kind before.
I won't bother with replying to any more of your web-quoted rhetoric.
Regards,
Jim TX
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i never have, but love to hear ghost stories!.
cg
Well Sirona, glad you liked that one.
I have another one though.
My aunt. She claims to be able to 'see' folks (mostly relatives) - either right before... or just after... they die. She has told me of several occassions where she has 'seen' them appear in her living room. She will speak to them, as they are looking about... sometimes with a confused look on their faces.
She says that she saw my mom - the day she passed on - from the side profile. She says my mom was looking about... confused-like. She called out to her, then my mom disappeared. Well... I feel this adds up quite nicely. After all... my mom was a JW. She didn't expect to morph into a 'spirit person' after she died - hence the 'confused' look. hahahahahaha
I tend to believe this - as we _do_ pass on to another dimension when we pass on - my aunt just happens to be 'tuned in' to seeing this.
She also speaks of things that are moved about in her house. She calls it her 'guardian angel'... I think it is her dead (now spirit) husband looking after her.
Something to think about.
Regards,
Jim TX
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i never have, but love to hear ghost stories!.
cg
Well, this is an interesting topic.
I have not had much happen to me personally... other than the last mobile home that I lived in had 'echoes of the past' in it.
I would hear, late at night... around midnight - or even after - footsteps running through the house. Now, to me... it sounded like sound travelling through the ground, and coming up into my mobile. I figured it was from a neighboring mobile. The footsteps were like a little childs'. Running - Pause - More Running.
When I moved to my new mobile... I have never heard those footsteps anymore. I have come to the conclusion that the mobile home had 'absorbed' the sounds from through the years... of all the occupants... and had slowly released some of the more noisy ones - late at night.
(I had found a boys' hot wheels under the fridge when I moved in, so know that previously, a boy had lived there as one of the occupants.)
.....
My daughter had an experience -
One evening, long ago - when I was still married - my wife and daughter came out to my shop/office, and asked if I would go into my daughters' room and turn on the light. They were both pale. (They are also both JWs - and firmly believe in 'demons'.)
According to my daughter, earlier that evening she had walked into the room, and reached for the light switch, and heard a man's voice - low and deep saying, "Come here, bi**h!". She freaked and went to my wife, who also freaked - and they both came to me - figuring that a man was in that room.
Well... I ain't no 'hero'... and this didn't sound like someone (if there _was_ a man in there) that I wanted to tangle with. But... I went inside, and went down the dark hall to my daughters' room. I reached inside and flipped on the lightswitch. Nothing there.
I then went to the living room where they both were... discussing what items might be 'demonized', and such.
I asked again, exactly what she heard... if her radio/stereo was on or not (it wasn't), etc. I knew that there had to be a logical reason for this.
It turns out that there was. The neighbor fella had a friend who would come over and visit. This friend had a CB radio in his car - with a linear amplifier. Whenever he would 'key' the mike, he could broadcast to California!
I figure that he was in the middle of a conversation with one of his fellow CBers, and it happened to come through my daughters' speakers - using the speaker wire as an antenna.
But at the time... they were BOTH spooked... and I was too. *grin*
Regards,
Jim TX
any thoughts on mr. taylor?s claims?.
u.s. demands greater oil output, lower prices.
"finance ministers from the united states and other major industrialized countries, hoping to affect the outcome of a battle within the organization for the petroleum exporting countries, formally demanded yesterday that oil-exporting nations raise production and lower prices to a level 'that is consistent with lasting economic prosperity,'" the new york times reports.
Realist,
Perhaps you could share with us what YOU are personally doing in the way of...
Home insulation -
Type of vehicle you drive - that is economical (state MPGs) -
etc.
Do you have solar panels installed on your home to create electricity from the sun?
Do you have a solar water heater?
Do you live in a straw-bale home, or other type of construction that is energy-efficient?
Enlighten us, oh wise one.
Regards,
Jim TX
any thoughts on mr. taylor?s claims?.
u.s. demands greater oil output, lower prices.
"finance ministers from the united states and other major industrialized countries, hoping to affect the outcome of a battle within the organization for the petroleum exporting countries, formally demanded yesterday that oil-exporting nations raise production and lower prices to a level 'that is consistent with lasting economic prosperity,'" the new york times reports.
HEY!!! I resemble that remark!!!
But seriously. You're in a field that _I_ know!
Three years ago while everyone was spouting "What you should do is..."
I was saying... "What I am _doing_!"
Right now... I am in a bloody mobile home park... worse than a Nazi concentration camp! They don't allow things that might go 'boom!'. Silly people!
Regards,
Jim TX
P.S. Just joking about the 'boom' part. Bio-diesel is very benign stuff... once it's mixed properly.
any thoughts on mr. taylor?s claims?.
u.s. demands greater oil output, lower prices.
"finance ministers from the united states and other major industrialized countries, hoping to affect the outcome of a battle within the organization for the petroleum exporting countries, formally demanded yesterday that oil-exporting nations raise production and lower prices to a level 'that is consistent with lasting economic prosperity,'" the new york times reports.
Actually Valis - I need to clarify something.
I mis-understood your statement. Yes, you can burn used vegetable oil directly in the diesel engine, BUT it takes some finnagling to do so.
One needs to add a second fuel tank to the vehicle (which takes up precious space in some of these smaller vehicles).
Then, one needs to route the fuel line from this added fuel tank to a valve - and have the ability to switch between the regular diesel fuel tank - and the vege-oil tank.
The reason is that the car cannot be started on the regular vege-oil - until it is heated up to a really hot temperature. (Not sure what it is, and don't want to do the research to find out the temp right now.)
That's the principle that this works on. The vegetable oil - if heated hot enough - then fed into the diesel engine - will combust just fine.
So - start-up and shut-off of the diesel needs to be on regular diesel - running mode - vegetable oil.
I didn't like that idea - and opted for the bio-diesel route - as it needs NO modifications to the diesel engine. If you run out - filler' up with the good ol' regular petro diesel, and keep going.
Getting the vegetable oil from some of these 'greasy spoons' can be challenging... as it can have all sorts of crud in the oil. Salts, french fry bits, etc.
I always used a good filtering system to clean the oil up before I processed it for my vehicle.
Regards,
Jim TX
any thoughts on mr. taylor?s claims?.
u.s. demands greater oil output, lower prices.
"finance ministers from the united states and other major industrialized countries, hoping to affect the outcome of a battle within the organization for the petroleum exporting countries, formally demanded yesterday that oil-exporting nations raise production and lower prices to a level 'that is consistent with lasting economic prosperity,'" the new york times reports.
*yawn*
Yes, Valis. How do you think that I was making MY bio-diesel, that I poured into my 1982 VW Rabbit Pickup?
Three years ago.
From used vegetable oil from a Mexican food restaurant.
For 50-cents per gallon.
The tail-pipe smelled like whatever was 'cooked' in the oil. Mine - like chips from the restaurant.
I bought the book - then scrounged the components to use to do the titrations - and then the transesterification of the vege-oil to bio-diesel.
The cool thing about it is that the 'waste' is actually glycerin - or soap. Great soap, too!
*grin*
Regards,
Jim TX
