alt fuel vehicals WAS: Re: [DMCForum] Re: The economy sucks.

["ryanpwright" <yahoo1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rich,

If you want a car that gets good milage any of the VW TDIs are the
only way to go, in my opinion. Hybrids suck. A coworker has a TDI
Jetta and gets almost 50mph. Hybrids get closer to 40-45. And, with a
relatively cheap conversion kit (www.greasel.com) you can run straight
veggie oil as well as regular diesel/biodiesel.

I wouldn't mind putting a new VW TDI engine in my DeLorean. I could
probably extract the same amount of power as I currently have and more
than double my gas milage (plus run off of veggie oil).

Another plus with diesel vehicles: When gas starts to get scarce,
diesel is usually plentiful. Keeping large reserves of diesel on hand
is important as a large majority of our food and other needed supplies
are transported by truck, so you can bet when there isn't enough gas
to go around they'll still keep the diesel flowing. 

-Ryan

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cruznmd" <racuti1@xxxx> wrote:
> Hey Andrei,
> 
> Glad to see you're still alive down there. I did not know that about 
> the hybrids. Thanks for pointing that out.
> 
> I'd forgotton all about bio diesel. I read about a local woman with a 
> new VW who was buying used veggie oil from a local chinese restaraunt 
> to burn for fuel.
> 
> Definitely a viable option. Also it's only one system which I like.
> 
> Rich
> 
> --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Andrei Cular <andreic@xxxx> wrote:
> > Rich
> > 
> > A friend of mine was looking in to the hybrid cars and determined 
> if you 
> > do highway driving as part of your commute the savings goes away 
> > quickly.  Unlike conventionally powered cars the hybrids gets th 
> best 
> > efficiency in stop and go city traffic.
> > 
> > For his 100+ mile/day commute he went with a diesel jetta and loves 
> it.  
> > And with diesel you can make your own bio or buy bio-diesel at a 
> limited 
> > number of places.  for a nice little quick cost comparison take a 
> look 
> > at http://www.thedieselstop.com/downloads/mileage.xls
> > 
> > Andrei

Yahoo! Groups Sponsor

ADVERTISEMENT

---

Yahoo! Groups Links

• To visit your group on the web, go to:
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DMCForum/
   
• To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
  DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   
• Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.