Vic Smith wrote in
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Good on you Larry, for being innovative. Enjoy it while you can.
When 50 more people do it, Econ 101 will kick in, and the restaurant
owners will be asking highest bid for their old grease.
When a few hundred do it, the Chicago Board of Trade will initiate
future contracts. Shouts of "Buy 100 October OFG (Old Fry
Grease)!!!!" will ring out in the OFG pit, and industry experts will
blame the OFG futures speculators on the high cost of fuel.
Maybe you should lock these restaurants' oil in with a contract.
Who knows, you may be the next Rockefeller.

--Vic


No, I suspect the next thing to happen is the oil companies' bribed
politicians will pass a law making it a felony to burn anything but oil
company fuel in any vehicle, driving us all underground. Remember the GM
EV-1 all the test owners loved and refused to give back to GM until GM
threatened them? That was about dealers bitching it didn't require
enough maintenance and oil company politicians telling GM to get rid of
it.

Our President owns oil companies, remember?

They'll find some environmental problem, even if there isn't one of
course, to ban it. It produces NO SULPHUR EMISSIONS, like diesel does.
It's not low sulphur...it's NO SULPHUR. So, we'll have to make it a
carcinogen killing the planet's children. Yeah, that'll work as a scare
tactic.



Larry
--
http://www.spp.gov/
The end of the USA and its Constitution....RIP

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:56:33 +0000, Larry wrote:

No, I suspect the next thing to happen is the oil companies' bribed
politicians will pass a law making it a felony to burn anything but oil
company fuel in any vehicle, driving us all underground. Remember the GM
EV-1 all the test owners loved and refused to give back to GM until GM
threatened them? That was about dealers bitching it didn't require
enough maintenance and oil company politicians telling GM to get rid of
it.

Yep. And now I'm hearing all this crying about the poor U.S. auto
mfgs from different sources.
I saw 3 ads on TV yesterday by these jokers, in succession.
1. Chrysler - a big minivan gas hog.
2. Ford - a huge honking crew cab PU gas hog.
3. GM - a Caddie Escalade gas hog.
Now maybe that marketing was a coincidence or a product of the
cable channel(s) I was watching (CNN, Fox or MSNBC - can't remember).
But it doesn't matter. Keep marketing gas guzzlers and you will die
or become further marginalized by the Asian automakers.

--Vic

"Vic Smith" wrote in
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Yep. And now I'm hearing all this crying about the poor
U.S. auto
mfgs from different sources.
I saw 3 ads on TV yesterday by these jokers, in
succession.
1. Chrysler - a big minivan gas hog.
2. Ford - a huge honking crew cab PU gas hog.
3. GM - a Caddie Escalade gas hog.
Now maybe that marketing was a coincidence or a product of
the
cable channel(s) I was watching (CNN, Fox or MSNBC - can't
remember).
But it doesn't matter. Keep marketing gas guzzlers and
you will die
or become further marginalized by the Asian automakers.


Have you never driven on a busy interstate? 80% of the cars
are SUVs and PUs.
BTW, my truck gets 6.5 MPG now.

SBV

"Vic Smith" wrote in
message news

Now maybe that marketing was a coincidence or a product of
the
cable channel(s) I was watching (CNN, Fox or MSNBC - can't
remember).
But it doesn't matter. Keep marketing gas guzzlers and
you will die
or become further marginalized by the Asian automakers.


I agree, car ads are some of the worse. Bigger is better?
And how about the ads geared towards the juvenile, immature
( bobspit types) street racer wannabes? Ouy vay!

One ad touts their lighted cup holder. A LIGHTED CUP HOLDER
FOR CRIPES SAKE !!!!!

SBV

Vic Smith wrote in
news
Yep. And now I'm hearing all this crying about the poor U.S. auto
mfgs from different sources.
I saw 3 ads on TV yesterday by these jokers, in succession.
1. Chrysler - a big minivan gas hog.
2. Ford - a huge honking crew cab PU gas hog.
3. GM - a Caddie Escalade gas hog.
Now maybe that marketing was a coincidence or a product of the
cable channel(s) I was watching (CNN, Fox or MSNBC - can't remember).
But it doesn't matter. Keep marketing gas guzzlers and you will die
or become further marginalized by the Asian automakers.

--Vic



Look closely at the lobby success Detroit has had keeping fuel efficient
cars like the Smart Car and other tiny European and Asian developments
out of the country, with the help of their "safety politicians".

I've always wondered why I can buy this:
http://tinyurl.com/3777vp
Which is American made, has absolutely no safety equipment,
whatsoever...but, I'm not allowed to buy this:
http://tinyurl.com/2b7f9u
which HAS plenty of safety equipment so the passengers survive this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju6t-yyoU8s
Here they crashed one into a new Mercedes S-class. It bounced off and
everyone survived.
Do you think the American on the one I can buy will survive this crash
test? I doubt it. It's used as a flimsy excuse to keep fuel efficient
cars that hurt my oil company President, GW, in his pocket book.

Of course, not all Smart Cars are as fast as these with the 500HP Suzuki
Hayabusa motorcycle engine in them....(c;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPQIi...elated&search=

Here's a Diablo Smart wiping a million dollar Ferrari's nose in a drag
race....too funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV1zQ...elated&search=

-------------------------------
We're just now getting ONLY the most inefficiently powered Smart Cars
into America. It's been years of waiting....

God I love youtube....(c;


Larry
--
http://www.spp.gov/
The end of the USA and its Constitution....RIP

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 20:57:05 +0000, Larry wrote:

Vic Smith wrote in
news
Yep. And now I'm hearing all this crying about the poor U.S. auto
mfgs from different sources.
I saw 3 ads on TV yesterday by these jokers, in succession.
1. Chrysler - a big minivan gas hog.
2. Ford - a huge honking crew cab PU gas hog.
3. GM - a Caddie Escalade gas hog.
Now maybe that marketing was a coincidence or a product of the
cable channel(s) I was watching (CNN, Fox or MSNBC - can't remember).
But it doesn't matter. Keep marketing gas guzzlers and you will die
or become further marginalized by the Asian automakers.

--Vic

Look closely at the lobby success Detroit has had keeping fuel efficient
cars like the Smart Car and other tiny European and Asian developments
out of the country, with the help of their "safety politicians".

I've always wondered why I can buy this:
http://tinyurl.com/3777vp
Which is American made, has absolutely no safety equipment,
whatsoever...but, I'm not allowed to buy this:
http://tinyurl.com/2b7f9u
which HAS plenty of safety equipment so the passengers survive this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju6t-yyoU8s
Here they crashed one into a new Mercedes S-class. It bounced off and
everyone survived.
Do you think the American on the one I can buy will survive this crash
test? I doubt it. It's used as a flimsy excuse to keep fuel efficient
cars that hurt my oil company President, GW, in his pocket book.

Of course, not all Smart Cars are as fast as these with the 500HP Suzuki
Hayabusa motorcycle engine in them....(c;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPQIi...elated&search=

Here's a Diablo Smart wiping a million dollar Ferrari's nose in a drag
race....too funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV1zQ...elated&search=

-------------------------------
We're just now getting ONLY the most inefficiently powered Smart Cars
into America. It's been years of waiting....

God I love youtube....(c;

Very timely, Larry.
Would you put your money or Ford/GM or UAG?
http://www.forbes.com/markets/2007/0...markets23.html
You remember the Bug in the '60's. All over the place.
Had one myself Might see a repeat with another Kraut car.
Especially if gas goes to 4-5 bucks.
Should be interesting anyway.

--Vic

Vic Smith wrote in
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You remember the Bug in the '60's. All over the place.
Had one myself Might see a repeat with another Kraut car.
Especially if gas goes to 4-5 bucks.
Should be interesting anyway.

--Vic



I had a string of VWs. 3 bugs, 411 wagon, 2 Kombi campers, one bus...all
great vehicles, but way too much maintenance on the air cooled pancake
engines. All that valve adjusting was way too much.

Larry
--
http://www.spp.gov/
The end of the USA and its Constitution....RIP

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:33:00 +0000, Larry wrote:

I had a string of VWs. 3 bugs, 411 wagon, 2 Kombi campers, one bus...all
great vehicles, but way too much maintenance on the air cooled pancake
engines. All that valve adjusting was way too much.

Had to rebuild mine after the jugs got too big inside. Think I paid
@50 bucks for new jugs with pistons and rings already in them.
Easy job rebuilding them, ground the valves with a reversing drill.
Those engines had a natural life of @60-70k in captivity - the
maintenance you mentioned.
Besides, most I could squeeze out of it was 29 mpg highway.
But the full-sized crap was getting 10-15 mpg, so it was cheap to
run/fix - and easy to park! Mine was a '64. 6 volt.
Had a '67 Squareback too - POS. But it was nice to hear its gas
heater take off like a jet and start steaming up the windows.

--Vic

"Vic Smith" wrote in message
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On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:33:00 +0000, Larry wrote:

I had a string of VWs. 3 bugs, 411 wagon, 2 Kombi campers, one bus...all
great vehicles, but way too much maintenance on the air cooled pancake
engines. All that valve adjusting was way too much.

Had to rebuild mine after the jugs got too big inside. Think I paid
@50 bucks for new jugs with pistons and rings already in them.
Easy job rebuilding them, ground the valves with a reversing drill.
Those engines had a natural life of @60-70k in captivity - the
maintenance you mentioned.
Besides, most I could squeeze out of it was 29 mpg highway.
But the full-sized crap was getting 10-15 mpg, so it was cheap to
run/fix - and easy to park! Mine was a '64. 6 volt.
Had a '67 Squareback too - POS. But it was nice to hear its gas
heater take off like a jet and start steaming up the windows.

--Vic


My brother was a big VW fan. He had numerous 'bugs', an orange
'squareback', a 68 bus and even the 'Thing'.
I bought a '72 Super Beetle brand new and kept it 5 years. That was enough
for me.

Vic Smith wrote in
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Had a '67 Squareback too - POS. But it was nice to hear its gas
heater take off like a jet and start steaming up the windows.



My 411 station wagon had the gas heater in it...and I was really glad!
South Carolina was hit by a freak snow storm that brought this place to a
standstill as they have no way of removing FEET of snow, back in the
early 70's. The trucks skidding and flipping over stuck us in Santee,
SC, where I-95 crosses Lake Marion for 3 days. I spent my days trudging
with a 2 gallon gascan to the truckstop for gas, then back the mile or so
to my GAS HEATED little station wagon to put it in the tank. My feet
were wrapped in towels from the towel outlet store for warmth and
traction as I had on smooth sole street loafers, hardly fit for snow. We
stayed warm all night with the gas heater and intermittent engine running
to recharge in our place in line. Met lots of great people in the same
boat (on topic!)...(c;

The 411 was very dangerous to own. The top of the engine was sealed to
the body under a sealing cover under the back floor. Its analog fuel
injection had a fixed manifold with rubber hoses between them and the
injectors at about 50psi in the hot engine compartment all sealed up.
The rubber failed, miserably, and poured hot gas over the hot metal
sealed in the hot compartment, a real explosion hazard INSIDE the cabin
of the car if it blew the lid off, burning all the occupants to death.

The second time it happened...in there with the ignition HV and POINTS
sparking in the gas fumes, I dumped it and that was the end of the
Volkswagens...as you can imagine. You could smell the fumes, luckily,
but that was always in the boondocks when it blew.

Larry
--
http://www.spp.gov/
The end of the USA and its Constitution....RIP