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Gas Attack
Posted Thursday, July 3, 2008, at 8:09 AM<< Previous | Read comments | Respond | Email link | Next >>
We're having our annual old car show at Carl Miller Park on July 4th (tomorrow). As usual, I have an entry in it myself, and they're expecting around 50 to 60 classics.
People seem to enjoy the shows, as well as seeing them in parades..............(what's a parade without a few Corvettes and T-Birds, eh?}
But how long are we going to be able to enjoy them? This "ethanol" garbage they're trying to push off on us, is a direct threat to not only the classics and hot rods, but to ANYONE who drives a vehicle old enough to have a carburetor on it.
There are 2 kinds of people who drive old cars: those of us who love old iron and would rather drive a '65 Mustang than a 2008................and then there are those who drive an old 60's pickup because they can't AFFORD 40 grand for a new one.
Ethanol is corrosive to older vehicles. It is been PROVEN to REDUCE gas mileage, it dips into food production by the corn products it takes to make it. It rots out fuel systems, eats the gaskets out of carburetors and hurts performance to the point of virtually stopping older cars in their tracks.
Ethanol supporters say we can "just install all new fuel systems (lines and tanks) in our old '56 Chevys, find some new kind of gaskets and seals for these systems, and change all of our engines over to modern day fuel injection."
Well...........none of this stuff would be readily available at your local Schuck's, if it WERE, it will be a costly process, and that 2-seat '57 Thunderbird that WAS worth 60 grand, just dropped at least HALF it's value from this "conversion>"..............PLUS.....it's not going to run as well and will get less gas mileage to boot.
Whether you own a classic car, or driving a 74 Datsun to work because that's what you can afford, there are 2 things we can do:
1. Contact our Senators and Congressmen, telling them if they expect our vote next time around, they'd better push for DRILLING and reject this ethanol business.
2. It is my understanding that not all gasoline brands are going to stock it. Those who DO are required by law to have a small white placard on the pumps DECLARING the fuel contains ETHANOL. We need to BOYCOTT these stations, and buy our gasoline ONLY from those retailers who do NOT have ethanol in their fuel. Petroleum companies are like politicians.....they don't always understand people, but they DO understand money. When they start LOSING it, they'll figure it out quickly.
We need to band together on this, folks. Tell your neighbors and friends, contact your representatives NOW.
If you don't.........it won't be all that long until you'll be forced to spend money you might not have..........driving some overpriced little piece of plastic and fiberglass you don't want............to appease the LEFT-handed factions of government who won't allow us to drill like everyone else.
Lord have mercy...........I've asked this before, on several different subjects and continue this bewilderment.......................What is it going to take? How much more are we going to endure from these elected idiots, before the people FINALLY stand up in unity and say, "ENOUGH BY GOD...........ENOUGH!!!" Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
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Mike, I sympathize with you here but I'm worried about you, too. I'm afraid you're not facing reality. We're all learning how detrimental gasoline internal combustion engines are no matter how great the gas-guzzling cars are to drive, or to ride in or how beautiful they are. We can't drill for gas forever.
Ethanol may not be the right choice, for a lot of reasons, but the lack of or price of gasoline is urging other attempts to solve the problem also. Hydrogen? I have a vision of every car in a major city giving off water vapor and altering the climate, unless it could be stored to empty somewhere later.
Whatever the new fuel is, some kind of alteration to car engines will be necessary.
Maybe it's time to keep the old beauties for occasional use only, and for regular use use something else.
I sure hope it doesn't come to that, SeniorLady. Of course, there is a second part of reality, though. We've got enough oil reserves in the artic alone to support 66 million cars for the next 41 years.
I would think that, given the technology we're supposed to have, we could come up with a clean burning fuel that WOULDN'T trash older vehicles within those 61 years.
This doesn't just affect us classic car collectors, though. Take a look around town.........any town..........not many people are independently wealthy enough to just go out and toss a small fortune unto one of these new "environmentally-correct" vehicles. There are folks going to the store, going to work and taking their kids to school in vehicles at LEAST 20 years old, because today's cost of living has dictated that it's all they can afford.
7 years ago, the libs got drilling blocked. Even today, with so much oil available and pump prices skyrocketing, they STILL place northern elk and chipmunks ahead of people..........in areas so inhospitable, no one ever goes up there anyway.
Animals adapt well to human structures. There are 3 distinct heards of antelope visible nearly everyday along I-84.
Driving around town today, it would seem the only gas station NOT using ethanol is the Sinclair station along Sunset Strip. I usually buy my gas there anyway, and will continue to do so, while seeking additives to fight the bad effects of ethanol.
Bet ya..........bet ya.........even WITH this garbage, which has not only proven to be corrosive AND REDUCE gas mileage.........bet ya........cost at the pumps continue to rise.
Other countries' governments are smart enough to drill close to OUR own shores.....yet our clowns in Washington continue to buy from the Arabs. We also SELL some of our own crude to other countries!! Can you believe that?
Personally.......I wouldn't be surprised in the least, if Detroit lobbyists aren't greasing some congressional palms, believing their badly slumping sales would pick up again if they could somehow FORCE the public to junk their old Mustangs, Camaros and Roadrunners. Then we'd HAVE to buy these plastic throwaway cars they're trying to stick us with. There have been several attempts over these past 25 years, by various factions, to enact these so-called "klunker laws."
When they took the lead out of gasoline 30 years ago, there was available to us, good environmantall safe lead substitutes to protect the valves. Hopefully, some enterprising outfit will produce something to combat the ethanol as well. It's early yet, but Sta-Bil and Marvel Mystery oil are being looked at carefully along these lines.
Hard to believe, isn't it? We can give BILLIONS to other countries, while putting the screws to our own people, who PROVIDE the tax dollars the government gives away.
And watch what happens in November.........coast to coast........we'll put most if not all, of the same buffoons right back into office.
Then as usual.........we'll all sit back and complain that things are continuing to get worse. We as a country, still can't grasp that poor performance never improves with the same bunch in charge. It can't.
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We can't drill forever, Mike. Something has got to be done, and very soon. Our beauties may have to be retired and lovingly remembered, not driven.
We simply have to get away from gasoline-powered internal combustion engines. Some current alternates may not be the best way to go, but we have to keep on trying to find something that works better than gas -- and cost is not the only reason.
You know that, Mike. I know you're an intelligent and thinking man. It's the entire planet -- not just a herd of something or other that's at stake. Hydrogen? I envision a large city with cars emitting water vapor and, again, altering the climate (unless there's a reservoir or something to retain the water, to be emptied later).
I don't know the final answer, but I support all the research and attempts at solving the problem. I only believe the status quo is disastrous, no matter how much I love the old cars myself.
I support research and development as well. But until they actually come up with something, we're still sitting on over 40 years of oil that we COULD be using now.
I'm glad Congress is FINALLY going to do something with the greedy oil companies in the meantime though...........unless that's just "lip service."
I wouldn't get my hopes up about Congress doing anything. They are famous for empty promises! The only thing that matters in that group is keeping the cushy job and the serious benefits. I would like to see those yayhoo's live off a working mans wage and see how far they get. Biggest bunch of looser that have ever held an office, second of course only to BILLY CLINTON!!!!! What a dirt bag and an embarrassment to this country, but he did do some good. He redeemed old NIXON when he lied to the American people about little Monica.
Yes he did, MissyLynn...........and when you think about it, at least NIXON had the decency to resign!
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