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[Retarded Santa]

Hate to burst your ecologically friendly bubble, but it is.

 

I live in the Cotswolds, and for the past two or so years now nearly ALL surrounding fields are growing rapeseed for biodiesel. You'd think by now that seen as it's nearly a world project it would be significant but it's not. If we were to use biodiesel practically it would mean growing it on mass, more than we are now. And for that we need farming land. And where do we go for that? The rainforests. Where hippies are complaining they're already being cut down for cattle.

 

All it's doing is diverting around something but getting caught in the congestion anyway.

 

You're absolutely right, it's not a permanent solution (like I said) but as current alternatives go it's one of the better ones. At least with biofuels you keep overall fuel economy at a higher level. The USA is in love with ethanol, which is proven to cost more to produce and get less economy than regular gas. Let's switch the corn fields over! Or, as our friends at wikipedia suggest:

 

Increasing energy use, climate change, and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels make switching to low-carbon fuels a high priority. Biofuels are a potential low-carbon energy source, but whether biofuels offer carbon savings depends on how they are produced. Converting rainforests, peatlands, savannas, or grasslands to produce food crop–based biofuels in Brazil, Southeast Asia, and the United States creates a "biofuel carbon debt" by releasing 17 to 420 times more CO2 than the annual greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions that these biofuels would provide by displacing fossil fuels. In contrast, biofuels made from waste biomass or from biomass grown on degraded and abandoned agricultural lands planted with perennials incur little or no carbon debt and can offer immediate and sustained GHG advantages.

 

Ok, I'm done preaching now, I swear

 

BTW I have an '06 VW GLI. I'll try to post some pics soon.

[Ambulancia]

my three rides...

 

my 2000 jeep cherokee sport, 2 door

 

my 1996 chevy cavalier [sold]

 

and my 1985 nissan 300zx v6 turbo [sold]

[Molotov]

Hope your jeep doesn't do what spetsnaz's did, biggest piece of shit i've ever worked on. Within a week of buying it I had to replace the high pressure fuel line, which is a pain on the jeep, then it proceeded to fall apart until it eventually died on me in the middle of an intersection, lost the electronics and brakes. We got a mechanic in the area who had worked on it to buy it off of us and replaced it with a nissan pathfinder that hasn't given us any problems.

[Ambulancia]

Hope your jeep doesn't do what spetsnaz's did, biggest piece of shit i've ever worked on. Within a week of buying it I had to replace the high pressure fuel line, which is a pain on the jeep, then it proceeded to fall apart until it eventually died on me in the middle of an intersection, lost the electronics and brakes. We got a mechanic in the area who had worked on it to buy it off of us and replaced it with a nissan pathfinder that hasn't given us any problems.

 

 

haha yeah i heard alot of horror stories about jeeps being alot of upkeep but so far so good for me. i had it almost 2 years now.. nothing major. i put about 40k miles on it. lol now that i've posted this, it'll croak on me tomorrow

 

XD

[Itch]

Hope your jeep doesn't do what spetsnaz's did, biggest piece of shit i've ever worked on. Within a week of buying it I had to replace the high pressure fuel line, which is a pain on the jeep, then it proceeded to fall apart until it eventually died on me in the middle of an intersection, lost the electronics and brakes. We got a mechanic in the area who had worked on it to buy it off of us and replaced it with a nissan pathfinder that hasn't given us any problems.

 

What Jeep did you have? and WTF did the previous owner do?

 

I had a 91 Cherokee limited. I beat the hell out of it. (Including but not limited to) Driving it without an oil cap and then without much in the way of oil for over 5000 miles. I drove it without problem for another 70,000 miles after that. I put 223,000 miles on it before I traded it in & it was still running like a champ.. The only repairs I ever had to do (not including maintenance) was an electrical short to the brake lights & I had to replace the muffler that I ripped off on a rock.

 

So although I've heard horror stories.. my experience was the oposite.

[Ambulancia]

 

So although I've heard horror stories.. my experience was the oposite.

 

JEEP POWER!

[Modgers1]

2007 VW MkV Golf

 

-Modgers

[A. Wesker]

My current and my beast.

[suricruise]

**** YES!!! :001_tt1:

 

Watched that last week, I couldn't stop laughing.

 

I loved it when he drove around the BBC building and went into the lift.

 

I want one of these cars.

[dpgpowerlifter]

nice car