Convert your car to propane

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hambone
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Convert your car to propane

Post by hambone » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:32 pm

Interesting, wonder why it never took off....

http://www.motherearthnews.com/alternat ... To_Propane
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Post by DjEep » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:40 pm

How about Hydrogen? And not in a fuel cell, but in your stock(ish) FI engine...

http://www.switch2hydrogen.com/
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Re: Convert your car to propane

Post by Amskeptic » Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:47 pm

hambone wrote:Interesting, wonder why it never took off....

http://www.motherearthnews.com/alternat ... To_Propane
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Post by static » Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:08 pm

It never took off for a variety of reasons. We got worse mileage, the savings were not that great and you had to have a big-ass propane tank in the way.

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