My sentiments, exactly. I just think that if one out 4 or 5 people simply decided to make some small changes in their lives, we could yield significant improvements in our world. Nothing radical, just trade a few commonly accepted inconveniences for others.

In the case of WVO/SVO, I will be trading 60 minutes a month(4x15mins) fueling up at gas stations for ~90-120 minutes once a month actively collecting, filtering, mist-washing, and dewatering oil in the semi-automated system I am building.

The return for that extra 12-16 hours a year is a $3,000+ a year savings AND the satisfaction of knowing I am contributing significantly less particulate emissions to our air. That roughly works out to paying myself ~$188 an hour for the time invested. It's no small understatement to say that is more than actually earn in my job.

At the same time, I'm doing my part to reduce our dependence on Middle East oil. The more freedom we have from that chokehold, the greater our options in forcefully dealing with the corrosive ideology spreading from that region.[end political rant]

Although, I have to admit that after 6 months of searching for a great condition '87 wagon and seeing how few there really are left, I have been seriously wavering towards keeping it in stock condition. Some people around here have made very convincing arguments for keeping the (relatively)few left as they were designed.

Rather than convert it right away, as originally planned, I am now going to wait a few months to see how I feel. The wagon already gets great mileage, maybe I can get the same enviro satisfaction running it on 100% biodiesel.

And returning to the original subject of this thread, I wonder how much higher the price can go for these wagons?

A month ago it was $12k, the month before that it was $9k. Seems like 4 months ago the average was $6k. As they've been saying about California real estate - "The bubble's got to burst sometime".