Joe Walker contributed:

does anyone remember the story about how you can make "emergency diesel
fuel" from gasoline mixed with motor oil??

i recall one of the vw magazines took a diesel into mexico and couldn't
find any diesel fuel, so they mixed 30w motor oil with gasoline to the
ratio of 1 liter of oil to 5 liters of gasoline (?? not sure of that)
and came on home. changed the oil, and the bus kept running ever after
without trouble.

anyway that's how i remember it, but i am NOT sure of that ratio. anybody
know better??
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Before I got that desperate, how about any of the following alternate fuels:
Kerosene
Aviation Jet fuel
Heating oil

The problem of using a mix of gasoline and motor oil is that the very presence
of any amount of gasoline renders the mixture with the volitility of  the
gasoline component which will ignite violently .
Harvey