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[tgies]

ha ha ha our gas stations are starting to sell E10 instead of real gasoline :(

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[tehslugbug.livejournal.com]

I thought they had been doing that forever up there

[tgies.livejournal.com]

I was actually thinking of E20 which is new here

This is of course not that big a deal unless you have a carburetor (It is going to get gummed up) but it was ALARMING

[999kcelfe.livejournal.com]

I dunno, my VW Bus (with a carb) seems
to run GREAT on ethanol blends... better
MPG, that's for sure. But I will check
on it more... I don't really care if
the gas I buy has any ethanol in it.
They have ethanol blends here in Virginia too.

What I wonder about, is the 85 octane gases
they sell in East Nevada and Utah... when
I saw that stuff, I thought to myself... WTF?!?
EIGHTY FIVE?!? I thought the lowest was 87.
My van ran fine on that too.

[nathew.livejournal.com]

man fuck that corn shit

if anything could lower gas prices significantly, it would be to kick the shit out of all the oil speculators and whatnots.

[r-transpose-p.livejournal.com]

if they build this shit

http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/

I will consider not owning a car altogether.

I don't know if enough other people will do the same thing to have a significant effect.

Right now I own one (car), but it is in a different city, and it runs on three bald tires and a donut.

I'm thinking of hanging the hubcap from the busted tire on the fence of the place where I live.

For added comedic affect, this car is a Honda insight I bought back when I made a sofware engineer salary, and could afford things like "tires" and "brake pads" One of these days I will move into the woods in northern california, paint a "California Republic" flag and the number "01" on the top, and call it the Buckminster Fuller. Then I'll really show that Sheriff Rosco. I don't know what the horn should play instead of "Dixie" I'll take suggestions, but I think a deep throbbing new age electronic drone might be appropriate.

[tgies.livejournal.com]

i think it would be cool if we would knock off being such wasteful idiots in general

[r-transpose-p.livejournal.com]

Is E10 some new form of malt liquor / energy drink / both, possibly in combination with clamato?

P.S. Do they sell the "Budwieser + Clamato" that comes in a single can up where you live?

[tgies.livejournal.com]

whoa.
never heard of that but what the hell

[r-transpose-p.livejournal.com]

There is this Mexican-American guy in our department who thinks Clamato + Tecate is the awesome (el awesome?) He finally got me to try it. It is far to salty for my taste, but perhaps I just need less Clamato.

[r-transpose-p.livejournal.com]

anyway, mixing light summery lager beers with various tomato products is quite popular among mexicans, Budweiser and whoever makes Clamato merely capitalized on this to put both products in the same can, much like selling beer pre-mixed with energy drink. My coworker/classmate/whatever who loves Tecate and Clamato mixed together claims the pre-mixed Bud+Clam stuff is not up to par.

[tgies.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, pre-mixed drinks are rarely if ever that great.

I know about mixing tomato shit with beer, though; I lived six miles north of Mexico for years. Pretty much the basic drink in those parts.