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Subject:Re: broccoli confusion (WAY OT)
From:Mike Miller
Date:Wed, 12 Jan 2000 17:39:54 -0800

We're none of us, at least on the scale of Giant Sequoia trees.

Mike
85 Westy, 98 Honda, 41 me

----- Original Message -----
From: Stuart MacMillan <stuart@COBALTGROUP.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: broccoli confusion (WAY OT)

> Wow Ian,
>
> I am not the oldest guy on this list-you must be at least 70!  Well, at
> least the car would be! ;-)
>
> Ian Cameron wrote:
> >
> > At 10:58 AM 1/12/00 -0800, Tobin Copley wrote:
> > >I read a similar thing about a fellow who did this with a Mercedes
diesel.
> > >If I recall correctly, he did not add anything to the oil, just ran the
> > >straight deep-frying veg oil.
> > My first car (my age 14, car 25) was a Model A Ford.  I used to steal
> > heating oil from the tank in the basement.  Started the car on gas (from
a
> > one gallon tank in the passengers seat!!!) and when it was hot switched
to
> > oil, which ran through a coil wrapped around the exhaust to get it warm.
> > Smoked a bit - well, a lot - but it was cheaper than gas, which was then
> > $.42 per gallon.
>
> --
> Stuart MacMillan
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