"Jean-Leon Morin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes, that big diesel powerstoke to run WVO- biodiesel.. Got to help the > > economy and keep some dollars in the states. > > > Or ,what you could do is NOT buy a diesel powerstroke. Boycott american > cars, buy a Volkswagen TDI and make people aware of the beauty of small > diesels. Then, maybe, one day, you'll see a Diesel Ford Focus on the lot.
Indeed. I'd buy a Ford Focus diesel. From what I've seen of them they appear to be good little cars. > Then you'd be helping the environment. By buying a fat, large, stupidly > obese truck, you'll be hurting the environment even more, even if you run it > on moose farts. I must admit I do very often wonder at my fellow Americans' love affair with Big Trucks. They just don't make any sense. Particularly the SUV's. > The 30L of coolant that cools the massive beast, Although this can be helped if you use propylene glycol coolant instead of ethylene glycol, and make sure to keep up on the coolant additives and filtration so you don't have to change it as often. > 10L of > motor oil that gets dumped every 3k miles, A Frantz oil filter can help immensely with this. At which point it becomes a 100ml oil sample analysis every 3k miles. > the assorted gear oil boxes for > hte T case and front axles, Which will sooner or later leak. > and Big Ass (TM) tires that wear out waay too > quick will be a grand help to our environment. I've always gotten a kick out of the truck crowd's love affair with Big Ass Tires (tm). They put off road tires like Monster Mudders (tm) on their trucks, and then never drive them off of the pavement. You can allways tell the wannabees. BAT's with Armor All on the tire sidewalls and the treads worn flat. > Not to mention the 7.3L of > heat that you'll be inputting into the atmosphere to help melt the polar > icecaps. I'm not sure of your units here, but if you're making the point that they tend to be gas guzzlers, they are. > Bravo, where do I sign up? On the dotted line of the purchase contract, right below the hideously overinflated price. > Not to mention that when that Ford junkpile is worn out at a mere 200K miles > and 10 years, you'll send it to the chipper to be recycled. The 800 lbs of > plastic contained in it will be shredded and become non-biodegradable waste, > to sit and wait. Of it'll be melted into something, spewing tons of crap > into the atmosphere. Ford has been making a big noise lately that every piece of the vehicles they're currently manufacturing, including the plastic bits are recyclable. Of course they've been forced into this practice because of European requirements to do such. And now they make it seem like it's their very own idea. Gotta love it. Alan Petrillo -- Aviation is more than a hobby. It is more than a job. It is more than a career. Aviation is a way of life. A second language for the world: www.esperanto.com Processor cycles are a terrible thing to waste: www.distributed.net ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Promise to Quit Nicotrol will help http://us.click.yahoo.com/5vN8tD/AqSDAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
