hi
anyone else feeling this price increase at the moment?...i was told there is a protest planned for saturday (that may turn out not to be true) from some of the forums i go on
hitting £50 per week now just to get into work! :shock: , how long will it be before we see per litre..?
chris
The rumours are true
The price of fuel in scandalous....
£200 per month we spend on fuel in this household and it will only increase :-(
time to fill up maybe....
i have been looking at LPG conversion...the price is 50% of fuel and thats a big difference
costs about £1000 to have the system fitted though but at this rate we could see that repay itself in less than 10 months eh
food for thought
I drive a diesel and need my boot space..
dont think a diesel can be converted?, no sparkplug?, LPG may not be suitable for compression combustion?
boot space isnt an issue for me as the car has two boots (mid engine car), the front boot is not used so wouldnt miss it really
LPG requires an ignition source to burn
Diesels dont provide that.
Its true you could fit an ignition system but you may as well find a suitable petrol vehicle instead..
As for exhaust gas temps....
I doubt there would be any significant difference as modern (by that I mean post 1993) run catalytic convertors and are suitable for LPG conversion so temps must be within tolerances.
That, my dear Mallock- was most definitely a flirt!
wouldnt be easy to drill the head but i guess anything is possible eh, im sure some nutcase has done it
then again compression would be too high anyway eh
the EGT must be in line with a petrol mixture then...otherwise as you say it wouldnt be possible to use LPG on a cat equipped car
using it on a turbocharged car im not so sure about....it has a higher octane than petrol but has a lower calorific value, it would also lower intake temps due to phase change (unless this happens before the injection point/s) so it seems it gives with one hand and takes with the other...
not enough chip fat to run all the diesels that could be made to run on how long do you think it would take chippy owners to think they could become oil barrons and charge extortionate prices for the waste oil?
TBH one of my friends runs their mechanical diesel engine on fresh oil from a chinese food supplier in the summer months, the car also runs better believe it or not...
so he can use diesel/vegetable oil or a mixture of both
used oil has to be processed before use i believe?
This URL was sent round our office today which may be useful to this thread:
i dont drive and dek has a petrol card for work which he can use for personal use as long as its in the uk so we are not really effected but its still scandolous it does put me of learning to
Couple of points,
If the protesters are blockading fuel depots for one day that will have no effect on the availablility of fuel at garages, the delivery drivers will just work a bit of OT to make up for it and certainly the garages would have a few days stock anyway......unless everyone goes out and panic buys!!!
If you put any chip shop oil or vegatable oil in a recent design diesel engine, you'll wreck it.
Have you noticed the price of bottled water in the supermarkets? Some of that stuff sells for more than £1 per litre and you can get a very acceptable substitute straight from your tap....how mad is that?
Finally, price of diesel / petrol is nothing compared to printer ink. Can be up to £15 for about 30cc....can't be bothered to work it out, but must be several hundred pounds per litre, so I say stuff the fuel depots everyone picket PC world on Sat!! (Tounge in cheek there)
John