Comments
Next entry: your morning parable
Current entry: tonight’s from the wayback machine
Previous entry: ironing tonight's KisP fun facts
Mumblix Grumph

I guess I’m going to have to finally do my project to run the truck on propane.


comment by Mumblix Grumph  on  03/02  at  01:28 AM

Mumblix, I watched quite a few circus people switch over in the late 70’s (the Carter I years). They found out propane gives your engine less power, you get less miles per gallon and a lot less places to fill-up. The first two are pretty well documented and the third only affects crazy lifestyles choices.


comment by Spin  on  03/02  at  01:57 AM
DoubleU

High gas prices are not high gas prices when a democrat is in charge because “big oil” is Obama’s friend!


comment by DoubleU  on  03/02  at  02:49 AM
Mumblix Grumph

Spin:

Yeah I know it’s far from ideal.  I just like having the option.  I did a conversion on my old Bronco where I could switch between the two.  The old truck was just too old and rough to be a daily driver.  I’d like to try it on the Explorer.

If I was smart I’d buy an old diesel Mercedes Benz and run it off waste vegetable oil.


comment by Mumblix Grumph  on  03/02  at  06:21 AM
geezerette

They can’t even feel it when their sh*t comes back to bite them.  You can add the middle east that—and every WTF thing that happens every day---


comment by geezerette  on  03/02  at  07:52 AM
apotheosis, wasteland legend

Fuck propane, I’m buying pigs and switching to methane.

APO RUNS BARTERTOWN!


comment by apotheosis, wasteland legend  on  03/02  at  08:24 AM
SondraK, unapologetic Lympian Slayer

^ OWIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


comment by SondraK, unapologetic Lympian Slayer  on  03/02  at  09:27 AM
Alan Hussein, the outback bacon czar.

I think all of the wheat we sell middle eastern country should be priced according to the price of oil.  Oil goes up 50%, wheat goes up 50%.


comment by Alan Hussein, the outback bacon czar.  on  03/02  at  11:26 AM

Not the difference between prices in an expensive urban area such as Washington DC vs. the price for the average price of gas nation wide.

Gas prices in Chicago are still about $.50-$.60 lower than what they were at the height of the Iraq War and Bush’s war of terror.


comment by Toad7734  on  03/02  at  02:24 PM
DoubleU

Sorry Toad, it is Obama’s Iraq war now, but at least back then people had jobs and could afford gas.


comment by DoubleU  on  03/02  at  02:58 PM
EMT-P Cracker (NREMT-P of Doom)

And I was getting pissed that it’s 3.25 here in Cajun country and I’m less than an hour from some huge refineries.


comment by EMT-P Cracker (NREMT-P of Doom)  on  03/02  at  03:53 PM
SondraK, unapologetic Lympian Slayer

Yea, TOAD, but Nancy’s in DC.


comment by SondraK, unapologetic Lympian Slayer  on  03/02  at  05:16 PM

Mumblix, there’s many, many folks here in Mississippi running diesel made from used cooking oil, mostly in 1 ton Fords. We’re the fried chicken capital of the world. And yes. the exhaust does have that Chicken Shack smell. Makes people do a double take on their first whiff.


comment by Spin  on  03/02  at  05:22 PM
Bob1

I wish we could make a car that runs on liberals.  Or toads.  Or Korans.

Several lifetimes’ worth of fuel, any way.


comment by Bob1  on  03/02  at  06:25 PM
dick, not-quite-dead white guy

a car that runs on liberals
Bob1 - Wookie is going to ruin that when she makes them all skinny. Won’t get nothing useful when we render them.
Uhbamas are all alike - don’t believe in energy and take the fun out of life.


comment by dick, not-quite-dead white guy  on  03/02  at  06:32 PM
mech (discriminating characterist)

A vehicle that runs on toads would barely be good for short hops.

Bemember last time gas prices rocketed and teh precedent said it happened too quickly? He wants it to happen more gradually, like a frog toad in a kettle who doesn’t know he’s cooked till it’s too late. That way they can force America further into economic decline and into the fiction of alternative energy.

We have plenty of domestic resources available until an economical Mr. Fusion kit is available to the average person.  Let’s use them.


comment by mech (discriminating characterist)  on  03/02  at  06:47 PM

Double:

Right, until the Republicans destroyed the economy and ran it into the ground and exploded the debt and deficit...Partly because of the war in Iraq.

Sondra:

What does that have to do with anything? Her price chart is the national average for gas...which is cheaper in Mississippi than DC for instance.


comment by Toad7734  on  03/03  at  09:58 AM

Toad, gas will always be cheaper in Mississippi than in DC or any large metropolis for that matter. That’s just simple ‘supply and demand’ economics.
What I find odd about that chart is my brother in Massachusetts is paying just about the same as I am paying here in east central Mississippi. So where are those #’s coming from? Do they have a fecal odor?


comment by Spin  on  03/03  at  04:55 PM

Next entry: your morning parable

Previous entry: ironing tonight's KisP fun facts

Close Window