I remember when diesel was cheaper to buy as well
You fail at predicting the future
I've just bought me a cave, rifle and 5 years worth of supplies. The end is nigh!
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You fail at predicting the future
I've just bought me a cave, rifle and 5 years worth of supplies. The end is nigh!
Something to do with Low Sulphur, which Diesel fails at? I'll see if I can dig up something more specific.
Aye it's more Crude then refined, hence the black smoke out of old cars
Its nothing to do with how refined it is. The black smoke is simply soot and it is inherent in diesel's due to the slower flame propagation and poorer fuel atomisation compared to petrol.
I don't really know much about fuels as I don't work in fuels development. In Europe we are close to 50/50 split between diesel and gasoline though.
You actuall get a posotive gain from a barrel of oil, this link has a better description and pretty pictues
p), but it is in US gallons.Ah ok, I thought because it is less refined and older cars were less refined, it was more apparent
edit and the change to low sulpher fuel in 2006-07 reduced soot emmisions
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You fail at predicting the future
I've just bought me a cave, rifle and 5 years worth of supplies. The end is nigh!
Used to be great owning a diesel, laughing at all the fools paying 73p/l when the derv was only 67p/l. Putting a quid into my RD50 and nearly getting 2 litres was nice too, used to break my heart putting 6L into it every week
Used to be great owning a diesel, laughing at all the fools paying 73p/l when the derv was only 67p/l. Putting a quid into my RD50 and nearly getting 2 litres was nice too, used to break my heart putting 6L into it every week
My dad had a AX derv in 93-94 and we went round Europe, he was ecstatic at how cheap the diesel was. You should hook up.
Ah ok, I thought because it is less refined and older cars were less refined, it was more apparent
edit and the change to low sulpher fuel in 2006-07 reduced soot emmisions
Lower suplhur is purely to stop the sulphur poisoning the catalytic convertors
$130 for a barrel now.
I didn't think it would hit it, but jeebus its look like $150 is on its way over the summer.
Petrol is now around £1.13 where i live. But it doesn't go up that fast as he only seems to put it up when he fills his tanks.
I didn't think it would hit it, but jeebus its look like $150 is on its way over the summer.
Petrol is now around £1.13 where i live. But it doesn't go up that fast as he only seems to put it up when he fills his tanks.
Just went to fill up at my local Shell garage 116p for unleaded
Just went to Tesco and it was 115.9
I thought NI was consistently more expensive? Hum wierd :S
You didn't think it would hit $130 when? When it was $70?
Us illinformed peaseants couldn't really know what it will hit. The men earning lots of money off this tell us it could level out at $200 a barrel. I'm sure it will.
You didn't think it would hit $130 when? When it was $70?
Us illinformed peaseants couldn't really know what it will hit. The men earning lots of money off this tell us it could level out at $200 a barrel. I'm sure it will.
Still 109.9 here at Shell.
Just signed a contract on a new house which is only 5 mins walk from work so my mileage will thankfully be going down, apart from bike rides of course. Business partner has bought a 350Z which he's seeing 21mpg out of on his daily 20 mile each way commute
Just signed a contract on a new house which is only 5 mins walk from work so my mileage will thankfully be going down, apart from bike rides of course. Business partner has bought a 350Z which he's seeing 21mpg out of on his daily 20 mile each way commute
My Corvette with a 408ci stroker motor will have to be a weekend only car now
I used to drive it to work every day
It gets 24 mpg on the highway but around town with a big stall converter it just sucks gas down to the tune of about 10 mpg.
I used to drive it to work every day
It gets 24 mpg on the highway but around town with a big stall converter it just sucks gas down to the tune of about 10 mpg.
guy over the road from my ind unit runs his discovery on cooking oil, cheaper than normal fuel, better mpg apparently, was also a simple conversion (you run a small tank of diesel for starting / stopping controlled by solenoids, but main tank full of cook oil)