Wry Mouth Exclusive: Gas $7.789 a Gallon in Redlands, CA!
It's a local Union 76, but they have a special dedicated nozzle — for 100 Octane fuel
"oh my yes 100 octane"
says the Stephen King part of my brain. I put in 2 gallons of 100 octane and 8 of 87 octane just to see what would happen.
The van did NOT break (whew), but I can tell you it's got a little extra "zip" now. I reckon that adding 2 gallons fo 100 octane prolly boosted my 87 octane brew up to about 93 octane.
But those racing afficianados that are hooked on the good stuff, shelling out $7.79 a gallon on the weekends? Whew!
I wanted to provide a link here, to support what seems a fantastical tale to us neo-suburbanites, but this is the best I could do... a BBS discussion that (eventually) displays many places to get such fuel(s). Who knew?
Okay...I am going to break my 'petrol pricing in the uk' silence, and just say that normal everyday petrol (speaking as a pedestrian, ye understand) is six pounds a gallon.
So...you guys are catching up.
There is a very small firm here that collects old cooking oil from restaurants, adds the requisite chemicals and sells it as cheap bio fuel. They have to hide their sign, as so many ciustomers find their way to the obscure single pump, just by word of mouth. I am not pro bio-fuel, in the wider sense. Cereal is for crunching. That little business just gives me the option for scaping a remnant of gratificatiom from the guilt of allowing myself a deep-fried fish supper as an exhustion and empty fridge treat on the night of my removal.
Look out for me on "Dragon's Den" seeking investment for the transport of the future: the "Pedestroller". (Wind turbine "Crocs" insert, and castors arrangement.)
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I thought a gallon of fuel weighed seven pounds?
Wry, is it true that the nipponese are introducing a car in CA that runs on water? or does it just emit tons of water vapor into your atmosphere?
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um... I'll check into it. I believe the Stanley company has them beat by about a hundred years, though.
I CAN tell you, with a fair amount of certainty -- even though I am totally making this up on the spot -- that the Japanese are working intensely on developing a robot that can be truly competitive on Japanese game shows, without losing any of the cuteness factor.
Disney has the ASIMO robot right now in the "Carousel of Happiness" building (the ex-Carousel of Progress, or whatever it was actually called back in the day) but I was with two 6-yr-old boys and some hangers-on, so we had to go to the Shootin Galleries instead. Maybe next time.
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" I thought a gallon of fuel weighed seven pounds? "
What; so I should have written about gas being seven pounds a gallon?! That would only be news -- although very interesting news, to me -- if it had started out at about .30 pounds a gallon in the sixties, and had been increasing in weight all these years.
Come to think on it, that would be so cool.
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... and then it dawned on him.
Forget the textual come-back, 'Murgy. I get it. I didn't see (in the administrative comment queue) that yours was a response to Rowan's.
On the other hand, I got to type 'queue' just now so it's not a total loss.
P.S. check your statheads team or I'm going to throw mgt of it to someone other poor slob. you cost me the playoffs, boyo; now i'm out for blood...
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mmm.... fried fish...
I am wondering if the cooking oil fuel thingy catches on, whether there will be a hue-and-cry over the greasy smog pervading cities and causing, amongst other side-effects, a "carny" smell over wide swaths of civilization, and greasy skin and acne? Perhaps my imagination is getting the worst of me.
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your imagination? ...that's right, you've never been to New York...
... but we won't be allowed to fry foods anymore, it's the new patriotism, doncha know.
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