I saw the thing on CNN yesterday when they described last year's Fuel Oil Crises...the hurricane in Texas damaged a major petroleum processing plant and pipeline link and simultaneously, terrorists sabotaged oil refineries in Saudi Arabia. To add to the carnage, China, whose oil thirst is rapidly increasing, offered Nuclear Technology to Iran in exchange for Oil Shipments..an expert theorized that fuel might climb to $8.00 a gallon the next time we have a similar crises..
I know we Dieselheads, know for thrift, ingenuity and resourcefulness have nothing to do with this.. I never bought a car for more than 2200 and boy I'm thrifty, and we're innocent...but sooner or later, someone will have to foot the thirst of world fuel shortages...
I'm sure mankind is resourceful ,and maybe in the longterm this will be a good thing as it will stop global warmimg, but does anyone believe, as I do, that change is imminent?

yes we are thrifty.. as you said before yankee thrift i belive.. im going to get a greasecar.com veggie oil kit asap .. im putting a little away every week.. and im going to fab up a dumpster diving pump kit..

My feeling on it is this, whatever you see on the news is total Bullschit, there is always an agenda, and fear and control of the people is a huge motivator for the powers that be. My feeling on it is this. So what if the whole world and economy comes to a crashing halt. How much worse can it be then now. There are to many people on the planet, consuming too much of its resources and its not like we are due for a major shift. But again the bottom line is this, whatever you think you know, its probably wrong, and whatever they are telling you is most certainly wrong. I refuse to live in fear. Go make love to your lady, hug your kids, scratch your dog's ears, eat well, sleep well, and well, tommorrow you could die anyway so what is there to actually worry about. Not my kids college, not my retirement, not buying some new junky car for 20k, not a mortgage on a 500,000 home, not nothing. Love to all, The Kid

careful with the dumpster diving kit!! If there is water in the oil and you dont know well say bye bye to your ip! Better just to collect, settle, boil, and filter.

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2004 E55 AMG
2002 C32 AMG (#2)
1995 E300
1978 300D
1987 300D
2002 C32 AMG(blown motor :[
1981 300SD
1983 300SD
1987 300SDL
2002 Jetta TDI
1996 S420
1995 S500
1993 190E 2.6
1992 190E 2.3
1985 190E 2.3 5-Speed

id pump into 15 gallon drums then bring home to filter and de-water.. i know the hazards of water in it

In a way, I'm not scared,you know why? Cause I didn't cause it, and I can't fix it. The only thing that does scare me is I would hate for the US to be a second rate nation, because it did do a lot of good things for this world, and fundamentally the people are very decent and honorable..I dont think some other nations, if they did become world powers becaus of their economic power, would accept as many immigrants from different races, nations and places as the US did and treat them as equals....

Yeah the worlds always ending. Maybe I should pick up an S600 to help suck the rest of the dino juice down...

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Yep saw that CNN feature here in Malaysia via satellite yesterday. Initial reaction..? I think it's silly for CNN to hand out ideas to idiot terrorists around the world.

Also, my next car will be Hybrid, Benz or otherwise.

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Yeah I guess during the 50's I'm surprised the Cold War didn't erupt...but, we were still living in the shadows of the Post Victorian age, and the Soviet Union and China both remembered how terrible WW II was...so this kind of held everything in check... but look, things are changing, I mean you have twice the amount of people in this world in the next decade competing for slimmer amounts of fuel & people in the USSR, China and India want their cars too and everyone wants economic growth also and fuel is kind of important..and the have-nots fly planes into skyscrapers, so now where once had at least some reason, we have minimal reason now.. Well, I'm an optimist, and even if I weren't, I'm not going to be thinking about this tomorrow at work..but I don't think things are as simple at the beginning of the 21st century as they were in the 20th century's outset...
OF COURSE, next week when I am back home, that ain't gonna stop me from sanding my 85 300D and painting it...I think the funniest thing about us humans is how clever and how stupid we can be at the same time...

Both my trucks do that. Maybe 10-12mpg city. But 19 freeway in the Z and about 17 in the F150.

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'85 300SD 245k
'87 300SDL 251k
'90 300SEL 326k

Six others from BMW, GM, and Ford.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty.[/IMG]

I'll take a 600SEL if anyone has one they want to give away The way (lead foot) and quantity I drive means I use up plenty of dinosaurs as it is though.


As for fuel, if diesel goes over $2.90 a gallon I'll be switching to sam's club clear fry oil (soy oil), it works out to being about $2.79-2.83 a gallon or so, takes about 3 cubies to fill the tank perfillup, not bad! I have one on the porch I will try out when its warmer out.....

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'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

Why can't you use the fry oil now?

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I'm not a doctor, but I'll have a look.

'85 300SD 245k
'87 300SDL 251k
'90 300SEL 326k

Six others from BMW, GM, and Ford.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty.[/IMG]

I didn't see the CNN report but it is just a matter of time till the next crisis comes along and crude oil prices sky-rocket. What I do is I buy several crude oil calls, several months out in the future. I buy them cheap enough so I don't really care if they expire worthless, but when the next squeeze comes, it's "pay off the mortgage time".

It works out to about $2.83 a gallon to use it, so it still costs more than diesel at $2.64..........temperature wise I could be running it though, it was even completely liquid down to about 15 degs outside, I bet it'd run perfectly fine....I'm just so paranoid to dump it in.....what if I clog the filter.......or have other probs......

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-diesel is not just a fuel, its a way of life-
'15 GLK250 Bluetec 118k - mine - (OC-123,800)
'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

screw the "doom and gloom".ive been around for more than half a century and dont trust anyone uttering this nonsense for the sake of a weekly paycheck or profit and loss statement.