Three words in honor of the recent runup in fuel prices:

[randomness]

Locking. Gas. Cap.

(My car's locking fuel door broke from metal fatigue a while back, but with the recent price rises I decided it was time to get a locking gas cap, rather than wait to get another fuel door.)

Comments

Any diesel drivers out there?

[ddreslough.livejournal.com]

If you drive a diesel, consider converting it to run on Veggie Oil. I drive a 2000 Jetta TDI on veggie. :)
http://www.greasecar.com did my conversion, but you can also contact http://www.frybrid.com and http://www.greasel.com.

Only works for diesels, though. HOWEVER - that being said -- Go Ethanol! Check to see if your car is alrady a Flexible Fuel Vehicle here:
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy03osti/33058.pdf
http://www.e85fuel.com/e85101/flexfuelvehicles.php

There are also 50%/50% conversion kits that advance the timing and increase the richness o the mix so that you can run E50 in almost any car...Need to find the link for those. If you can access your fuel injector control chip, sometimes you can advance things/mod things without needing a special custom chip.

I've heard about people already just going 40%/60% ethanol in their engines with no modification, but I don't think I'd try that myself. Still...people have done it.