Monday, May 19, 2008

Options for people on limited budjets

Some of you have asked me to consider the position of people who can't afford to buy more fuel
efficient cars and are being hurt by the current high cost of gas. For those who have diesil cars,
their gas guzzlers can be converted to run on bio diesil. I saw a kit online that cost $575 it's a bit
expensive initially but if they are getting their vegitable oil free from restaurants who would
normally have to pay someone to dispose of it other wise the savings could rack up pretty fast. But if this initial cost is not feasible it can't be that complicated of a conversion because my friend converted his moms mercede's to run on bio diesil for our 5th grade science project. Solutions such as this and competition from waste based ethanol production will hopefully drive big oil out of business.

2 comments:

amanda said...

$575 dollars is still pretty expensive for people who are on a limited budget. Do you know if people are making enviromental cars that are cheaper. Also I have heard that a man made a car that is able to run on water. Do you think that is true?

t-lex said...

I saw that too and did a bit of research only to find out that unfortunately there are a lot of scams out there. People taking advantage of the high cost of gas and people who are hurt by it. As a consumer to have to be savy and if something sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Because the guy that can truely cheaply and easily convert a car that was made to run on gas to being able to run on water...he's the next Bill Gates!