Wouldn't it be great if if something crapped crude oil?

[DJL 235]

It would be the end of the crisis and if prices were low enough we could get right back to fucking up the environment with gas guzzlers.

Oh Look: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4133668.ece

"I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

[downwardspiral 0]

I like my headline better.

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[billvon 3,107]

Cows have crapped methane for thousands of years. Pig poop is a good source of methane too!

[millertime24 8]

Thats no bullshit either. My friends used to light each others farts when we would get to drinking and it really really works. It would be awesome if you could eat a bean and beef burrito and fuel your car for a week.

Muff #5048

[VTmotoMike08 0]

Yes, I agree that it would be wonderful if something could crap out crude oil. If we could find a way to make a mini home refinery, I could put this tank o' bugs in my garage, take the crude and stuff it in my mini refinery and make my own gas on the spot, small scale. Now that would be cool. So it takes 40 SF of space, and not everyone has that, in another year it bet it will be down to 10SF. So much to think about and a lot more issues to be addressed.

Unfortunatly, I give it 6 months until Exxon buys the patent and we never see it again

[pirana 0]

So they've changed emphasis from plants to single-celled critters. Last I read about this it was expected that by 2015 we would have plants engineered to produce oil. And I don't mean ethanol refined from corn, i mean plants that produce oil. IIRC, it was a combination of genetic engineering and nanotechnology.

Skip that whole Carboniferous period and go directly from living plants to oil.

" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

[billvon 3,107]

>If we could find a way to make a mini home refinery . . .

You can do that today with:
biodiesel (waste oil to biodiesel converter)
natural gas (make it with a digester or just pump it out of your natural gas line)
ethanol (a still is pretty easy to make and there are centuries of experience with them)

But gas would have to be astronomically high before people are willing to do stuff like that.

[Amazon 7]

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biodiesel (waste oil to biodiesel converter)

My exhaust smells kinda funny nowadays

[downwardspiral 0]

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biodiesel (waste oil to biodiesel converter)

My exhaust smells kinda funny nowadays

Maybe its something in your diet

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[kelpdiver 2]

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But gas would have to be astronomically high before people are willing to do stuff like that.

So how do we find these people? I got 4 speghetti jars full of top quality cooking grease, but no one to give it to. Would be silly to drive it somewhere just so it can be made into a couple liters of fuel.

[Skyrad 0]

Try drinking five pints of GUINESS

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

[SpeedRacer 1]

What if we had vehicles that ran by burning cat fur?

There seems to be an infinite amount of that.

Speed Racer
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[strop45 0]

There are people currently working to turn sewage into bio-diesel, so you could be crapping crude right now!!

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." -- Albert Einstein

[wmw999 2,584]

If you have a local freecycle you could post it there.

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)