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| DavidA:
...For the time being petrol is cleaner until something better replaces it... LPG perhaps ? Dave |
| Arbalist:
Could be Dave, I don't know much about LPG. Quentin Wilson thoroughly reccomended the 4 Litre Jeep many years ago but suggested the LPG conversion for it to reduce running costs. I also remember reading that Henry Ford always envisioned that cars would run on Ethanol not Gasoline. I guess we burn what we've got until we find something better. |
| Swarfing:
why not good old fashioned wood gas with big balloons on top of the car :palm: |
| RobWilson:
AdBlue :coffee: Rob |
| loply:
I never get diesel cars... they sound awful, they drive badly with gear shifts every half a second, they emit so much crap they actually seem to make themselves dirty, and they have more parts to go wrong on them. Rather pay the extra money for the smooth running of a petrol engine. I'm always confused when you see a £40k+ BMW or Audi and it's a diesel... if you can afford to pay that much surely the difference in fuel cost for the benefits of a petrol engine would be easy! The cost for replacing glow plugs and dual mass flywheels etc on modern diesels is ridiculous. Plus if you're a man who likes driving, there's a pleasure to be had from a decent petrol engine, my last car had an 8000rpm limit and was smooth as a peach. It was also running nearly 30psi of boost :clap: I'm fortunate in that I'm now running a 6.3 AMG V8 which is about as far from a diesel as you can get, and I bloody love it :thumbup: |
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