[at-l] Car Talk

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I believe deisel has more BTU's per pound than gasoline. That is based on my recollection that it was claimed that old kerosene stoves allegedly had more energy per pound than the first gasoline stoves. Also back when I was reporting on power plant design and connection, I seem to remember that heavy industrial oil number six and the like, had more energy than number 2 home heating fuel.

Weary

> ------------Original Message------------
> From: Jim Bullard <jbullar1@twcny.rr.com>
> To: RoksnRoots@aol.com, AT-L@backcountry.net
> Date: Mon, Oct-25-2004 5:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Car Talk
> 
> At 02:14 PM 10/25/2004 -0400, RoksnRoots@aol.com wrote:
> >Some claim the technology is there for an 80mph
> >diesel car but they are stalling on it...
> 
> A hybrid maybe but the amount of energy in a gallon of gas has been 
> calculated and under ideal conditions (smooth flat road, no wind 
> resistance, vehicle in peak condition) the maximum mileage that could 
> be 
> gotten in a vehicle that would carry 2 is 80mpg. Since gasoline is a 
> more 
> highly refined version of diesel oil I would suspect that diesel could 
> not 
> match that, certainly not beat it. Honda BTW once produced a neat car 
> called the CRX . It carried only two passengers but had ample cargo 
> space 
> for backpacks and the EX version, though a bit underpowered for highway 
> 
> travel, got 55mpg on the highway. A friend of mine ran one for well 
> over 
> 200K. It was built on the Civic pan though and like the Civic, it was 
> too 
> close to the ground for some trailhead access roads.
> 
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