Nixon Era

[nucklhead13]

I guess it may seem strange that an old man like me can remember how gas got hard to get when he was in high school. I'll never forget the gut-less pickup I was forced to have with a six cylinder engine. It was even worse driving in town at fifty five.

Back then diesel was real cheap, and several old pickup owners changed the engines to diesel burners. Once I helped a friend of mine haul hay, and his father managed a desiel engine repair shop. When I got in that Dodge it was strange. The engine filled a bunce of the cab just like old tracter trailer motors did. I even got behind another truck on the way out of Albuquerque. That rig had a poir of exaust pipes rising straight up behind the cab like some diesel truck.

I just remembered that diesel used to be about 35 cents a gallon, and with its price so high now the gas companies are really ripping us off.

In my five years hauling fuel out of Albuquerque, ten years ago way back when there were several seperate companies competing for customers with low prices I'd been to several refineries. I sure know diesel isn't re-fined as intensely as regular gas. It's just a cleaned version of oil.

Now I've heard of a new kind of diesel that could really help us all. It's made with soy and can be burned in any of the present diesel engines. I got to admit that I'll never be waisting my money on a new car that runs on reqular gas. I just hope we can start buying the new kind of diesel. Then I can be just like a lot of folk way back in the seventies, and change my 78 Scottsdale into one with a diesel motor.

Chat sights like this might help us all when the existance of a new fuell becomes widely known.