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 Posted: 05/06/05 - 11:48 Post subject: Gas for 85 cents a gallon! Updated.
The new E85 ethanol based fuel that is. We have it in our area and today they are doing a customer appreciation at our local grocery store where E85 is available. Free lunch too! Brats and hotdogs and stuff. Do you have this where you live?? Does your car run on it? The Jeep don't. The van we traded the Jeep for did. 
Edited cuz robs being an ass with me. 
http://www.journalstandard.com/articles/2005/05/07/local_news/news01.txt
Edited for the link, we made the paper! 
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Posted: 05/06/05 - 11:49 Post subject: Re: Gas for 85 cents a gallon!
| JACKED UP wrote: | | The new E85 ethanol based fuel that is. We have it in our area and today they are doing a customer appreciation at our local grocery store where E85 is available. Free lunch too! Brats and hotdogs and stuff. Do you have this where you live?? Does your can run on it? The Jeep don't. The vean we traded the Jeep for did. |
 nope, my can produces it....
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Posted: 05/06/05 - 11:52 Post subject: Re: Gas for 85 cents a gallon!
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nope, my can produces it.... |
Oh f you rob. 
 
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Posted: 05/06/05 - 11:52 Post subject: Re: Gas for 85 cents a gallon!
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nope, my can produces it.... |
too easy. 
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Posted: 05/06/05 - 11:53 Post subject: Re: Gas for 85 cents a gallon!
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Oh f you rob.
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my face hurts from trying not to bust out laughing....
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Posted: 05/06/05 - 11:54 Post subject:
My car will not run on hotdogs or brats no matter how hard I try..... 
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Posted: 05/06/05 - 12:10 Post subject:
i think (hope) that ranks right up there in typos with my "toy your special place". 
welcome to my world glad to have you aboard
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Posted: 05/06/05 - 12:12 Post subject:
I have no knowledge of this magical cheap gas of which you speak. Although apparently if you have a VW diesel you can run it on used french fry oil.
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Posted: 05/06/05 - 12:22 Post subject:
I hear running E85 blend will actaully end up costing more since you mpg will be reduced by almost half. I might be willing to try it though!
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Posted: 05/06/05 - 12:26 Post subject:
 we have it here, at every station, usually one pump.
i guess my van runs on it ok cuz i've been filling it up with whatever pump is open. after i put $30 in once, i noticed the ethanol  sign....i was like, oh well, hope it works..  what the heck is this stuff? cornmash or what?
how do you know if you shouldn't be using it in your car/van????? 
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Posted: 05/06/05 - 12:30 Post subject:
| wanttorun100 wrote: | | I hear running E85 blend will actaully end up costing more since you mpg will be reduced by almost half. I might be willing to try it though! |
Also, doesn't it require a lot of energy just to produce the stuff?
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Posted: 05/06/05 - 12:33 Post subject:
| ShannonG wrote: | | I have no knowledge of this magical cheap gas of which you speak. Although apparently if you have a VW diesel you can run it on used french fry oil. |
I met a guy who makes bio-diesel in his basement.
Am I a dork for thinking he's cool?
I thought so.
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Posted: 05/06/05 - 12:33 Post subject:
| MastrBrewr wrote: |
Also, doesn't it require a lot of energy just to produce the stuff? |
It does reduce the MPG but not by half or so I'm told. We also have a trucking company here who hauls fuel and an Ethanol plant.
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Posted: 05/06/05 - 13:02 Post subject:
| TOsteve wrote: |
I met a guy who makes bio-diesel in his basement.
Am I a dork for thinking he's cool?
I thought so. |
We had a neighbor who did that. Only they used the barn. As I recall they mixed lye and alcohol into used fryer oil. (they had family in the resturant business) the result was a very harsh soap and a motor fuel which was <cough> <cough> only used in the farm tractor since they wouldn't think of running their dodge truck or mercedies car with non taxed fuel!
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Posted: 05/06/05 - 13:14 Post subject:
| wanttorun100 wrote: |
We had a neighbor who did that. Only they used the barn. As I recall they mixed lye and alcohol into used fryer oil. (they had family in the resturant business) the result was a very harsh soap and a motor fuel which was <cough> <cough> only used in the farm tractor since they wouldn't think of running their dodge truck or mercedies car with non taxed fuel! |
The guy I met has an arrangement with a neighbourhood restaurant to get his fryer oil. He unashamedly told me that he uses the stuff he makes in his 1985 Audi.
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