Gas prices.

My buddy was telling me about this earlier this week, he swears he used to work with a guy who converted cars for a secondary income. I've been trying to research it, but I'm a bit skeptical. Anyone have any experience with it or opinions?

 

my uncle did it and explained it to me... but i knew nothing about cars then

 

Hydrogen is a lousy fuel for the modern (?) internal combustion engine. Burning it makes corrosive compounds that will destroy your engine. You would be much better off going to ethanol.
Build your engine with 13:1 compression and limit the rpm to 5000 - 5500 and you have a great street machine.

 

Gas here in British Columbia is on Vancouver island and its 5.49 a US gallon!

 

I don't think it would do much good. The area where I live has been crushed by the poor economy for years and the rising gas prices are just killing it some more. We have been in touch with other restoration and regular body shops in our general area and none of them have any work. It's just a really bad time right now and I'm getting really, really worried.

 

I wish I was ready to send my car down to you and Dale but I haven't gotten much done this winter without heat in the garage. I'm hoping to make great strides from here on though but can't put an estimate when I might be ready for paint.

 

I feel like ethanol defeats the point being as hard to find and expensive as it is. And it's pretty corrosive on old cars too.

 

It seems pointless to add ethanol because it sure doesn't help to keep gas prices down. The corn should be going to feed livestock and for food.

Now gas prices and food prices are skyrocketing

It would be nice to know that, if you can't afford to drive anywhere, you could at least afford to eat.

 

Oh yeah......

 

History may look back at us as fools, people rioting because of food prices across the globe, and we burn our food, and pay farmers to not plant crops.

 

It's always seemed we're taken by the "Two steps forward, one step back" scheme.

Whenever there's a gas "emergency", shortage, economic downturn, international unrest, harsh winter or natural disaster, gas prices jump an outrageous $2-$3 and everyone goes bat-s**t crazy at the horrible situation.....then prices come down, slowly, and settles about .50 more than we were paying before the "emergency", and everyone breathes a huge sigh of relief, "Thank God, no more $4 and $5 dollar-a-gallon gas, whew" and starts pumping the radically cheaper gas, even splurging for their hot-rods, summer vacations, soooo relieved they're not having to pay $2-$3 extra.

Problem is, whenever gas prices come back down from these "emergencies", it never comes back down to what it was before......it usually "bottoms out" at .50-$1 higher than it had been.....but we're soo thankful and relieved it's not 4 and 5 dollars-a-gallon anymore, we don't even notice and/or care that we're paying a "measly" 50-75 cents more a gallon

The powers that be just raised the price of gas, and we're all not only thankful for it, we're buying more of it out of appreciation and relief.

 

I see it as one of the largest schemes in the history of mankind

 

I agree with you 100%. I think it's all planned out like that on their part!!!

 

I agree. Look at the first post. That was only 2 1/2 years ago.

 

Gas prices are artificially inflated and manipulated 100%. Wonder if Obama's snoopers will find any wrong doers lol. There are gas price hedge funds where they make bets on prices, if one of those billionaires makes a bet that the prices will rise by .50cents, then he will do everything in his power to make that happen so he wins the bet.