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I drive a 1972 Ford F-350 Dump Truck. Once, the price of gasoline spiked above
$3.00/gallon, I started experimenting with alternative fuel mixtures. Gasoline and used transmission fluid and ethanol and used
motor oil. The prognosis is that both mixtures work well and gas mileage is wonderful
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You are probably saying to yourself; "Wow, tht engine's got to smoke and run
like hell and kick off a lot of carbon omissions". Well, no to all three.It's an old truck, 36 years old to be exact. The emissions
on this truck are exempt, due to it's age. In comparison to running straight gas and the fuel mixtures, believe it or not, the
emissions are less, when using a fuel mixture. My truck runs like a kitten.
Miles per gallon or litres per kilometer, either or, are not as important when it comes
to having a place to live. And in this case a place to live is the earth and if we do not have it, we perish. So what good is it to
concern us ourselves about distnace per anything, if we wish to sacrifice our world to get a little more out of a measure glass
of fuel. Yet we will discuss this anyhow.
Yes, in comparison to gasoline, the alternative fuels ethanol and methanol would
never give you the same measured distance as gasoline. Butanol, however, burns alot cleaner and can give you practically
every bit of distance per measured glass of fuel as gasoline. And there is an added benefit to butanol - the octane can be
made to run in every form of vehicle, which means we would not need to choose what grade of fuel we want and we would
all pay the same price. No more 10, 20 to 30 cents more for premium or super, etc.
one side note here. "If we all got the same type of fuel for all types of vehicles, our
fuel pumps would be smaller and we would not need the big bulky type they now have at service stations, which in turn
conserves on our other natural resources, like iron, brass and plastic. Not to mention we would use less energy to produce
those fuel pumps" So go figure!
There is another engine that could - that is the diesel engine. One of which I have
also. A friend of mine, in fact a good neighbor friend was a train engineer and was familiar with the working of the deisel
engine, lamented to me one day that I could run my deisel engine off of kerosene. I started to think. Well, what else could I
run this engine off of? Remember, I had previously began a study in alternative fuels years earlier.
My research brought me to the fact that the deisel engine was originally designed to
run or be powered off of what else? Vegetable oil. That's right, good old veggy oil. Problem though, veggy oil costs too much
money to go putting in the tank of my backhoe deisel engine. Yet, I remembered when I cleaned out this bakery, how much
used stuff the owner of the place has discarded and continued to discard as he made his product. I got some of that old stuff,
free and well, the rest is history.
I do not recommend that you go use anything I put down here today. Unless that is
you have an old engine like me and can afford to experiment as I have. In time we willl get the butanol going and for now, it is
up to some of us to do the cutting down on emissions and conservations as we can.
I brought this subject to the fore, only to
point out to you, that there are alternatives and they are capable of being used. Let us put it out there and let the experts
sort out what will work well for us all. For some of us, the things little experimentors like me do can work and be put out there
and for others they are free to try if they would like too.
So what would your choice be and what are you willing to do to get it done?
There is more to discuss here so stay posted.
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