Are you ready for PROPANE?
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From: Tulsa, O K L A H O M A!
I helped my dad convert his '79 F150 to propane in the early '80s. I say I "helped", but I was only about 10 years old so I held the wrenches! We bought a used kit for around $500. He got the propane for free at his job. It took about two hours.
It pretty much destroyed the valves and valve seats and dried up the seals, but he drove it gas free for around 35,000 miles.
Grim
It pretty much destroyed the valves and valve seats and dried up the seals, but he drove it gas free for around 35,000 miles.
Grim
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https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=281991
some of you guys need to check out this new sub-forum
https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=281991
some of you guys need to check out this new sub-forum
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Originally Posted by JBMX928
not worth it.
just like ethanol.
its still not worth it.
eventually the ethanol makers will become greedy and it will be 3 dollars a gallon. and the price to make more and to pay the farmers.
corn will be outrageously priced in stores.
the only alternative fuel i think that will ever succeed is hydrogen, now lets get someone for that to work.
just like ethanol.
its still not worth it.
eventually the ethanol makers will become greedy and it will be 3 dollars a gallon. and the price to make more and to pay the farmers.
corn will be outrageously priced in stores.
the only alternative fuel i think that will ever succeed is hydrogen, now lets get someone for that to work.
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From: Lost some where in the middle of the Ozark Mountains!
Originally Posted by JBMX928
not worth it.
just like ethanol.
its still not worth it.
eventually the ethanol makers will become greedy and it will be 3 dollars a gallon. and the price to make more and to pay the farmers.
corn will be outrageously priced in stores.
the only alternative fuel i think that will ever succeed is hydrogen, now lets get someone for that to work.
just like ethanol.
its still not worth it.
eventually the ethanol makers will become greedy and it will be 3 dollars a gallon. and the price to make more and to pay the farmers.
corn will be outrageously priced in stores.
the only alternative fuel i think that will ever succeed is hydrogen, now lets get someone for that to work.
Ethanol makes the most economical sense, just becasue it keeps all the money here on our own land. If' I'm going to be paying $3 gallon (or equivelent enegry released) no matter what, then I might as well pay my neighbors and they will use it to pay me for my services later. Thats just plain old good economics.
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Originally Posted by MrSquirrel
REPOST
https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=281991
some of you guys need to check out this new sub-forum
https://www.f150online.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=281991
some of you guys need to check out this new sub-forum
eh.
go back to eating your nuts.
Last edited by JBMX928; May 2, 2007 at 06:12 AM.
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From: the moral high ground
I was riding in a caravan of Toyota Land Cruisers about 10 years ago and every one of them was converted to propane.
The strange part it was in Venezuela where gas was about 35 cents a gallon.
Only thing I can figure is propane must have been 10 cents?
You tip somebody a dollar down there and you're a god.
The strange part it was in Venezuela where gas was about 35 cents a gallon.
Only thing I can figure is propane must have been 10 cents?
You tip somebody a dollar down there and you're a god.
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From: Arkansas
Originally Posted by AAlmeter
That won't work out too well either.
We have the perfect fuel for mobile applications...its oil. We need to cut down its usage in non-mobile applications, like power plants. There is no reason we should be so afraid of nuclear power plants..hell France can do it without wetting themselves, so can we. It would greatly cut down the demand for oil (and therefore drop the prices) and would also drop air pollution and hopefully shut the tree huggers up for a while.
We have the perfect fuel for mobile applications...its oil. We need to cut down its usage in non-mobile applications, like power plants. There is no reason we should be so afraid of nuclear power plants..hell France can do it without wetting themselves, so can we. It would greatly cut down the demand for oil (and therefore drop the prices) and would also drop air pollution and hopefully shut the tree huggers up for a while.
i agree with that, power plants and other oil burning factories probably use as much oil as all cars in america
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There's a hydrogen powered bus in my area here, it emits pure oxygen as its exhaust and the tank gets filled with water. Not sure how they did that, but I know it exists.
http://www.sunline.org/home/index.as...sp%3Fpage%3D16
http://www.sunline.org/home/index.as...sp%3Fpage%3D16
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Originally Posted by 02SuperCrew4X
There's a hydrogen powered bus in my area here, it emits pure oxygen as its exhaust and the tank gets filled with water. Not sure how they did that, but I know it exists.
http://www.sunline.org/home/index.as...sp%3Fpage%3D16
http://www.sunline.org/home/index.as...sp%3Fpage%3D16
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From: Tulsa, O K L A H O M A!
While it is true that we can get hydrogen from seawater, it takes energy to get the hydrogen out of the seawater. The two most common ways to produce hydrogen are:
1) Electrolysis of water, which requires a lot of electricity or
2) You can split it out of fossil fuels such as natural gas. This also produces CO2.
Grim
1) Electrolysis of water, which requires a lot of electricity or
2) You can split it out of fossil fuels such as natural gas. This also produces CO2.
Grim