Recent content by Burt

Some general comments on the video and other information: The belief seems to be that more and more additive is always better even though people don’t know what the heck the additive is composed of. Are all additives equally effective and serve the same purpose? Unspoken is how much the...

Other than that, how’s your day going?

14.5 cents per mile deprecation, 11 cents repairs and maintenance. Maybe 17 cents gas plus insurance. I guess 43 cents Canadian (31 US) is about right.

At least there is some accountability here. Seems like a step backwards for his successor. COO of large airline to CEO of struggling rental car company. But maybe he was hearing footsteps.

I’m not sure what you mean by “those wells”. It varies a lot by location and formation, yes everything you mention is commonly found including kerosene too. H2S is found in regions that were salt water bodies eons ago. If the hydrocarbons formed in fresh water, H2S is not found.

In the oil business, getting rid of propane was called “taking out the trash”. Dan Duncan started Enterprise Products and made billions handling this waste product. Propane was a byproduct that needed to be disposed of to make real money on the oil. Propane at 90 cents per gallon delivered to...

Natural gas prices are lower than when I started in the business 43 years ago. We forget what deregulation and technology have done for us. Other than computers not much is cheaper than it was 43 years ago.

Here it depends on whether you own or lease the tank. If you own the tank you can shop around. If you lease the tank for a nominal fee of $30 per year, you have to buy from them and they charge more.

I put together a spreadsheet where you download the heating degree-days in your area and it estimates your usage and tank levels very accurately.

Looks like it’s clenching its teeth.

In the video he points out that the peak year for new car buying was 1978 (based on percent of population). This was during the nadir of the malaise era when the cars struggled to get to 100k miles. If they did they were rust bucks. They didn’t bother to put 6 digit odometers and speedometers...

Diesel hybrid with start stop and the chemical processing unit for emissions control? You gotta be kidding reaching for new heights of complexity. Might as well make it a plug in with roof mounted solar panels while you’re at it.

I put 209,900 miles on a’98 wind star before I decided to get a different vehicle.

How did you accumulate the mileage? A few miles each day or a few longer trips?