Supposedly left leaning sources are talking about big happenings this week... Anyone else hear anything?
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Here's the thing that astounds me about diesel. Producing diesel is less involved than making gasoline. So, why is it more expensive? You might say it has to do with demand, but diesel in the past has always been cheaper than gasoline. This was the reason why some automobile manufacturers were attracted to marketing diesel automobiles. People can make their own diesel from vegetable oil and even algae.
It's easy to make your own bio-diesel.
https://dangerouslaboratories.org/biodiesel.html
Lol. Until a Fedboi comes pounding on your door demanding money for their alternative fuels tax... it amazes me how all these greenie faggots never mention abolishing it when shilling the climate agenda.
When you make home diesel, its your personal business for survival and no one else's. Albeit, the human mouth is too often a loose cannon. The noise can alert the wrong people. Making anything for profit is also noise and another matter.
Regardless no such tyrannical tax should have ever fucking existed.
Just a greenie Trojan Horse with a commie red agenda.
God forbid they catch you running ag / green (hwy tax free) diesel in your Big Rig, that's a go to jail loose your truck kinda deal.
But repeat after me, "I am free"
Free enough to revolt and rebel, then send the master to hell.
Highway use + commercial taxes, diesel for the most part has always been the commercial fuel, while gasoline is the consumer fuel, for the last few decades the excess of difference in production of cost vs. point of sale is taxation.
Of course that cost is passed on to the consumers covertly, as the market once again balances what the government has stolen off the top.
I've been working on and with diesel engines most of my life, for low RPM high torque application, coupled with durability and efficiency, they are far superior to gasoline motors.
But in high RPM high torque, gas being more volatile is preferred.
However when you start calculating weight to energy ratios, the 2 stroke oil/gas motors for practical application can't be beat.
Hmm I think I see the solution. Abolish taxes.
Quite right. Diesel engines are more efficient than internal combustion engines.
Well partner they're both internal combustion motors. I think your auto correct like mine rewrite posts sometimes (changes enough words to change meaning).
But diesel's are amazing, I've worked as a engineer / motorman offshore on drilling rigs and the stories I could tell you. I think some of the old detroit 71 series are possessed. 471s are screaming little demons you just can't kill, their big brother the 1271s were the backbone of many a old draw work compounds, enough power to pull the Derick down if you're not careful.
And those big old cats seemed to like it slow and easy an ran forever, ideal for SCR generation applications.
But even after my offshore career ended, I jumped in a big truck and ran them roads until the wheels fell off.
And I'm here to say those baby truck diesel motors are little monster's too, just start to get broke in at 100k miles. Not uncommon to see a well cared for one with a few million miles, rather common to see them with at least a couple of million miles.
Marine application with set RPMs can really be dialed in with forced induction for max efficiency, weather your talking turbos or blowers the air/fuel ratio can get ridiculous.
Yea, I'm a fan but I've had some special hotrods in the gasoline version too.