Gnarlie'

If you would know how right you are with your response, you would dance on
your head. But I guess you know, so don't dance if you didn't have this done
before. You might get hurt.

Hartmut

----- Original Message -----
From: Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: User friendly fuels (was you fixed it..)

> Entity Robert Keezer spoke thus:
>
> > [diesel] is not user friendly. It evaporates slowly and stains
> > permanently.
> The former? That's a big advantage.
> The latter? Never noticed it. What exactly does it stain for you?
>
> > So if you spill some on your shoes or dress you will smell it
> > all day.
> In 14 years of burning diesel it never happened.
> Gasoline on the other hand, sprays all over the place.
>
> > I don't like the smell of Diesel fuel-maybe it's an aquired taste.
> Trucker's perfume, some of us think it's sexy.
>
> > Gasoline evaporates faster and yes, you will smell it a long time also
but
> > the smell will wash out easier.
> I don't believe it.
>
> > Remember how as a kid you loved the smell of gas at the pump?
> Eh? Always hated gasoline. Instant headache.
>
> >Does anyone
> > who grew up with Diesel have the same memories?
> Sure do, but I never went out of my way to sniff it.
>
> > The noise of Diesel.
> > When I hear  Diesel pick-up truck coming down my street my first thought
is
> > where's the fire?
> > Some are as loud as firetrucks.
> One mans noise is another mans music.
>
> > if I had a Diesel here my neighbors would
> > be all over me just starting it up to run to the store after ten.
> What's wrong with your neighbors?
>
> > And finally the smell of exhaust-much more noticeable in Diesel than a
> > optimized air/fuel ratio FI gas engine.
> A clean diesel emits almost no hydrocarbons and even a dirty diesel emits
> zero carbon monoxide. Even modern gas engines emit CO, so your complaints
> are just more propaganda.
>
> > Which means I have to waste that fuel mileage Diesel offers looking for
a
> > pump.
> I think you'reinventing complaints. How about filling up incidentally
> instead of making a special trip?
>
> > Your comments and opinions pro or con are welcomed of course!
> Every time I smell some old car spewing unburned gasoline I praise Jimmy
> Carter for clean air laws, catalytic converters were the best thing that
> ever happened to gas engines.
>
> -- Gnarlie
>