Watered down gas. With the crazy gas prices I wonder what us gasoline users can use to water things down. You are allowed to make so much personal booze. Would it be possible to make 20-30 gallons of moon shine to water down gas. say 3:1 gas/hooch. Or something similar. Like how diesel guys can run grease??? It would be cool but maybe I just seen one to many Dukes of Hazard's and no car is gonna run on home made grade booze.
anyone got any good moon shine recipes??? Course I know you could not tell anyone you are making it to use in your car. You would then be subject to pay gas tax. I seen an article that in London they had cops that sniffed exhaust in traffic for people using cooking oil in their car. Because they were not paying taxes on it and they were easy to post. Most cars don't smell like chicken.
its so ridiculous. Using cooking oil and especialyl USED cooking oil actually gets you better fuel consumption, you lose little if anything in the way of performance (well as much performance as a diesel will give you) and the emissions are far less toxic than petrol. They should be encouraging people to use cooking oil! I cant see any disadvantage apart from the smell of last nights fish and chips. They did a test recently on tv and the extremely sceptical presenter was astonished that you could simply put cooking oil straight into the engine and it worked just fine! All you need to is put in a filter and go to your locak Burger King and ask them for their used cooking oil.. they may even pay you to take it away!
They don't mind you using other fuels as long as you pay tax on it. But that was the problem. Stores had reported an increase of quantity cooking oil and people were mixing it 50/50 with little side effects. Once people got wise to it the greedy tax man found out and got upset. So officers were set up at traffic lights to go around smelling exhaust. To then fine you for not paying your taxes.
Gas has actually dropped about 23 cents here over the past week or 2, it was $1.86 this morning. Supposed to come down another 20-25 cents next few weeks too. Still not cheap though...
How can the police know whether you are paying tax on your cooking oil. Do they asume you are guilty until you prove otherwise. Do you have to keep some kind of receipt in your car, do they have a hotline to the taxman.. all seems strange to me. The point is that the very high fuel taxes in the UK is all about revenue generation rather than disuading people from buying H2's and the like. They should persuade people to move to cooking oil, they cant really be losin that much tax from the very few people that try cooking oil. It can only be a handful.. maybe a 1000 at the most surely?
How can the police know whether you are paying tax on your cooking oil. Do they asume you are guilty until you prove otherwise. Do you have to keep some kind of receipt in your car, do they have a hotline to the taxman.. all seems strange to me. The point is that the very high fuel taxes in the UK is all about revenue generation rather than disuading people from buying H2's and the like. They should persuade people to move to cooking oil, they cant really be losin that much tax from the very few people that try cooking oil. It can only be a handful.. maybe a 1000 at the most surely? I wonder how a big rig runs on last nights burger king... Could provide a whole new revenue source for the fast food chains and bring a new meaning to the word drive thru
I read an article in the paper recently that had a car running on pure cooking oil, not 50/50! It had to be cranked on diesel and warmed up. Then the cooking oil had to be quite warm to thin it and then it could be switched over and run straight. It would probably be a pain to have to remember to run it on diesel just before cutting it off so that you had diesel in the pump and injectors for cranking the next time. Great for on the highway but not around town.
thats what I was talking about earlier.. funnily enough I was reading an article in the economist magazine about this just now. Apparently in Hong Kong they are looking at a way of curing both pollution from cars and the amount of excess cooking oil from teh restaurants (apparently there are more in hong kong than anywhere else in the world). The solution is.. run cars on the oil. They seemed to think it wasnt that trivial but this tv programme had a guy in a regular volvo disel fill his straight up with used cooking oil and nothing else. He just drove off just fine
I've always wanted to build my Jeep and my future Buick to run on alcohol.... can you say 17:1 compression???? It burns more per mile but it is a heck of a lot cheaper than gasoline and imagine the look on the emission testing guys face when they hook up to test it heheheheehe
lol, I remember one of those episodes, they had all that moonshine to get rid of so they just dumped it in the gas tank and kept driving until empty while the cops were chasing them.
