Posted on 06/09/2011 2:41:00 PM PDT by TaraP
‘Sleep on your roof’
-Iraqi people
Will the last one leaving Detroit...OOPS! Looks like somebody already did.
lol
If dems totally ran the country - every city would function like Detroit...
LOL!
The city probably didn’t pay its bill.
We don’t need no stinkin’ CME to have a Detroit power failure.
I would bet it turns out to be the quietest night so far.
We will see.
LLS
They need to slightly down-size the Volt, replace the wheels with tines, attach handles, then sell them as eco-friendly tillers.
I am fixing to buy me a propane powered weed wacker, was thinking about a battery powered one - nixed that when I came across the propane powered one. Wish the company made a propane powered tiller! No mixing of gas and oil and the canisters of propane never go bad. They are supposedly easy to start and clean burning four stroke engines.
Very clean burning; all things equal, the engine should last 2-3 times longer before needing an overhaul.
Before the Feds (and a few states) made it such a hassle, my dad converted 2 or 3 of his pickups to propane. He had a 60 gallon tank in the bed, and a switch on the dash to switch back and forth from gas, in case the propane got too low before the next truck stop...about the only place that could fill a ‘highway’ tank. Since he had an iron bladder, that 60 gallons made for loooong hours between stops.
It also didn’t hurt that back then propane, like diesel, was cheaper than gas.
I need to trade in all of my 5 to 15 gallon tanks; none of them have the now-required gauges; some don’t have the (previous to that new requiremnet) required valve dohickey on the regulator; and ALL of them are past their recertification dates.
NONE of them (nor my parent’s tanks; nor my grandparent’s tanks) ever leaked, blew-off, blew up, or did any of the other things the serial ‘safety features’ were designed to prevent.
All those new fangled doodads ever did was ensure the continued sale of new tanks, since they charged the same price to retrofit, as they did to replace. I H.A.T.E. bureaucrats!
He used it to travel from Meridian, Ms to San Diego where he had a travel trailer stored and pulled the trailer back to Meridian. He had installed a four bbl Holly Carb on the engine and there was another knob he would pull on the dash to open up all four barrels. He needed that for the hills while pulling the trailer.
It was fun to drive around - great mufflers - and would really move when the four barrel was opened up!
Are the summer frolics begining?
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