13 Comments on Gas Prices Are Affecting Street Racers
They’ll eventually figure out that it’s free if you steal it. They especially like trucks with plastic gas tanks. Easy to drill a hole and quiet.
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They dump 10s of thousands into their rice rockets, I doubt $7/gal gas will stop them.
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Run down and get some gas, here’s a couple plastic bags to carry it in.
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^ I’ll run down and get some ampere-hours for mah EV. 🙂
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^Nah, just hang a generator on back.
That’s green.
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Speaking of gas, what happened to the Nordstream story? Did they figure out whodunnit and I missed it?
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^^^^
Sweden finished their investigation….
but won’t share the results with Russia….
I wonder why….????
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I picked a great time to buy a Cessna 150. It burns 5-6 gallons/hour at 100mph average ground speed. That’s 16 to 20 mpg on average, which is damn good for anything going 100 mph in a straight line.
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That was funny 🙂
@TonyR The boy that lives across the street has a BMW 335 that he has rebuilt the internals, swapped in a larger turbo, larger intercooler, performance exhaust, water injection, and tune. He says he is at 630hp and has to add a 104+ octane booster to keep detonation from being an issue. BTW: He pulled the transmission 2 weeks ago and the car is on jack stands in the driveway.
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…not affecting people street racing in Lamborghinis, apparently…
They’ll eventually figure out that it’s free if you steal it. They especially like trucks with plastic gas tanks. Easy to drill a hole and quiet.
They dump 10s of thousands into their rice rockets, I doubt $7/gal gas will stop them.
Run down and get some gas, here’s a couple plastic bags to carry it in.
^ I’ll run down and get some ampere-hours for mah EV. 🙂
^Nah, just hang a generator on back.
That’s green.
Speaking of gas, what happened to the Nordstream story? Did they figure out whodunnit and I missed it?
^^^^
Sweden finished their investigation….
but won’t share the results with Russia….
I wonder why….????
I picked a great time to buy a Cessna 150. It burns 5-6 gallons/hour at 100mph average ground speed. That’s 16 to 20 mpg on average, which is damn good for anything going 100 mph in a straight line.
That was funny 🙂
@TonyR The boy that lives across the street has a BMW 335 that he has rebuilt the internals, swapped in a larger turbo, larger intercooler, performance exhaust, water injection, and tune. He says he is at 630hp and has to add a 104+ octane booster to keep detonation from being an issue. BTW: He pulled the transmission 2 weeks ago and the car is on jack stands in the driveway.
…not affecting people street racing in Lamborghinis, apparently…
https://www.fox19.com/2022/10/10/2-men-arrested-dui-after-lamborghini-street-race-ends-fiery-crash/
I’m Still building a 427 R-code ’64 Mercury Montclair, regardless of Biteme.
…Rush called it…
https://youtu.be/uukZgfHZIoc