- Ink or Gas?? by kerminator
16 y
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Blog: My Unusual Road of Life....
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Some times it helps to stop and look... The world is not at all what it is presented to be by certain people!! HUH!
" If we were as smart as we think we are; just maybe our pathway would be easy!" a True-ism July 2008
Here is something to think and maybe laught about:
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Trying to find something funny in the absurdity of it all .........................
The price of Gas versus Printer Ink
All these examples do NOT imply that gasoline is cheap; it just illustrates how outrageous some prices are....
You will be really shocked by the last one!
(At least, I was...)
Compared with Gasoline......
 Think a gallon of gas is expensive?
This makes one think, and also puts things in perspective to other things we buy.
 Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 ... $10.32 per gallon
 Lipton Ice Tea 16 oz $1.19 ........$9.52 per gallon
 Gatorade 20 oz $1.59 ..... $10.17 per gallon
 Ocean Spray 16 oz $1.25 ......... $10.00 per gallon
 Brake Fluid 12 oz $3.15 ...... $33.60 per gallon
Vick's Nyquil 6 oz $8.35 ... $178.13 per gallon
 Pepto Bismol 4 oz $3.85 .. $123.20 per gallon
 Whiteout 7 oz $1.39 ....... . $25.42 per gallon
 Scope 1.5 oz $0.99 .....$84.48 per gallon
And this is the REAL KICKER...
Evian water 9 oz $1.49..$21.19 per gallon! $21.19 for WATER and the buyers don't even know the source
(Evian spelled backwards is Naive.)
Ever wonder why printers are so cheap?
So they have you hooked for the ink.
Someone calculated the cost of the ink at...............
(you won't believe it... but it is true........)
$5,200 a gal. (five thousand two hundred dollars)
So, the next time you're at the pump,be glad your car doesn't run on water, Scope, or Whiteout, Pepto Bismol, Nyquil or God forbid, Printer Ink!
Just a little humor to help ease the pain of your next trip to the pump...
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kerminator
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- Re: Ink or Gas?? by White Tiger
16 y
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http://www.hoax-slayer.com/compressed-air-car.shtml
MADE IN INDIA , NOW, THAT'S A SWITCH. IMAGINE RUNNING A CAR ON COMPRESSED AIR @ 125 MILES FOR $2
AMAZING AIR CAR!
The Compressed Air Car developed by Motor Development International (MDI) Founder Guy Negre might be the best thing to have happened to the motor engine in years.
The $12,700 CityCAT, one of the planned Air Car models, can hit 68 mph and has a range of 125 miles. It will take only a few minutes for the CityCAT to refuel at gas stations equipped with custom air compressor uni ts. MDI says it should cost only around $2 to fill the car up with 340 liters of air!
The Air Car will be starting production relatively soon, thanks to India 's TATA Motors. Forget corn! There's fuel, there's renewable fuel, and then there's user-renewable fuel! What can be better than air?
Check it out yourself and see - What A Cool Car! Enjoy! :)
The six-seater taxi should be available in India this year -2008!
Now If We Can Just Get It In The USA !
an innovative new compressed air powered vehicle is currently being developed in India and should be available later in 2008. The information in the message is true. Such a car is indeed being produced by European company Motor Development International (MDI) in partnership with Indian company Tata Motors.
MDI's founder, inventor and entrepreneur, Guy Negre, is responsible for the development of the revolutionary new engine. A 2007 article about the air cars published in Popular Mechanics notes that the air car "uses compressed air, as opposed to the gas-and-oxygen explosions of internal-combustion models, to push its engine's pistons".
There are several models planned, including the CityCAT which will sell for around $12,700 and cruises along at a top speed of 68 mph. The CityCAT will be able to travel around 125 miles before it needs to be refuelled at a service station equipped with a custom air compressor unit at a cost of about $2. The car also has a built in compressor unit that uses a normal electricity outlet to refill the air tanks over about 4 hours. According to Popular Mechanics, around 6000 of the vehicles should be available in India by August, 2008.
Zero Pollution Motors (ZPM), the US representative for MDI, promises that the vehicles will be available in the United States by 2010. There are also plans to manufacture the air cars in Australia and several other countries.
Only time will tell how successful the compressed air driven vehicles will be in the long term. However, the information currently available suggests that the cars should provide a cheap, clean alternative to fossil fuel vehicles, at least for city driving, and that is good news indeed.
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White Tiger
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- Re: Ink or Gas?? by kerminator
16 y
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Thanks for the review...
I first heard about using compressed air to power cars back in the late 70's, a guy in Penn. had built some air pumps into the wheels on an Oldsmobile which put compressed air into two large cylinder tanks on either side of the frame... The car started under regular Gas power; then could switch to compressed air for some distance... HUH!!
These type air cars are also available in Mexico, but the US does not allow them to cross the border...
It is funny ( not ha ha) how BIG money controls what you can get or even know about... The internet is changing all of that... May be we can get together an put some thing on the road...
HHO is our next best shot at better fuel economy... Will be posting more soon...
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kerminator
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