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Subject:Re: Calculate fuel consumption when idling?
From:Michael Elliott
Date:Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:58:12 -0800

On 11/26/2007 5:39 PM Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote:

> There's these redneck type diesel pick-up truck and dump truck type people
> right near me, about 300 feet away ....they just LOVE [...] to fire up a giant
> Ford diesel pick-up and let it idle for 40 minutes while they just stand
> around talking.

Yeah, hey -- what's up with that, anyway? Little Honda generators make me
crazy, but puffed-up bulky pickups with clattering diesel engines bring
out the Anarchist's Cookbook part of me. They love the sound of those
engines so much they can't bear to shut them off, or what?

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
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