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05-08-2024, 1:39pm | #2921 | |||||||
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My road trips today are TW in Boca (15 miles) and NPB (35 miles), nothing further than that. Did go to a fine restaurant in downtown FTL last month, that was 20 miles away--took a damn hour. I do travel to see the wifey's relatives in Tampa area, but those are mandatory. |
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Living in the upper mid west, this meme I'm posting below reminds me of all
the times during colder months when I was working, I would go into the building and find as many of the people who had put their wiper blades up because of freezing rain/sleet/snow, and tell them 'Somebody put your wiper blades up, I put them back down' to the knuckleheads that ran out to check. |
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Everyone in Rock Port MO could drive a Tesla for free. But at what cost to bald eagles.
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05-08-2024, 8:01pm | #2928 | ||||||
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Yes.
I’m going to get a diesel tank and pump. Probably 500 gallons. I will use the fuel for my pickup and tractor and eventually a diesel UTV, and maybe additional equipment. Not much in savings but it will be convenient. |
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05-09-2024, 9:51am | #2930 | ||||||
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Actually, not that uncommon. My wife's father was a farmer in Bakersfield, CA, and had a fuel tank on his property. Kept the pump and hose locked up so it wouldn't get stolen and gas used. He used it on his property for his farming.
Others with lots of land may do this too. My father knows a lot of people in rural Illinois and Indiana who do this as well. Something about that self-sufficiency I guess. |
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Where I am, I know several (8-10) people who have tanks on their property. Not uncommon at all. Most have diesel and gas, some of my more well-to-do car guy friends even have high octane race gas. I'm talking underground tanks with pumps. The real deal. Not everybody lives on a postage-stamp lot in a cube with bars on the windows.
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It's a fire breathing dragon with a stick shift and 3 gas-chugging carburetors. |
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I was at like 13.5:1 compression |
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I miss the '66 GTO with tri-power I had. I've given some thought to looking for one, but don't have a huge garage now. |
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I had a vechicle in the 60s that got that kind of millage. It was my well worked on 67 Dodge RT 440Cubes.
I managed to get my hands on a Holly 3 barrel carb. (I worked part time in my friends speed shop) Car also had a 4.10 rear. You could literally watch the gas gauge drop if you were a bit spirited. The 3 barrel did give me a couple 10s better at the strip but it was ridiculous to city drive. Think it was about a 1,000 CFM. Went back to my Carter AfB, |
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I’m also going to install a whole house LP backup generator. And although I have muni water I’ll be drilling a well for backup and redundancy. If I could justify the cost, I’d install a solar field as well. Maybe at a later date I will. |
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I guess somebody is finally getting a delivery. 2 other semis came through shortly after. Good lord those things are ugly!
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The past couple weeks my wife has come back from her morning walks saying she saw some new test vehicle in the hood. It is not uncommon to see manufacturers vehicles around here disguised with crazy wraps and tape on cardboard panels to disguise the body lines, etc.
Anyway, she spotted it while we were out together, it was the Tesla truck with a flat black wrap. She was "WTF?" |
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