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Poorly. If you invested $100 in the S&P 500 at the beginning of 1960, you would have about $47,173.47 at the end of 2023, assuming you reinvested all dividends. This is a return on investment of 47,073.47%, or 10.15% per year. This lump-sum investment beats inflation during this period for an...

Great "Muscle Car DIY" article originally attached by "Greasymechtech". This excerpt from the article probably describes the reason for the failure of the original poster's Buick engine: "One of the most important steps in building any Buick engine is measuring bearing tolerances. Be careful...

Yep. You can pass Illinois emissions with EVAP not ready also.

Ha! I get a bigger cent-per-gallon (cpg) discount in Illinois on my Discover card. $.30 on every gallon. I love Illinois.

I worked for a major oil company. Most gas stations have two underground gasoline storage tanks. One for regular and one for premium. 89 octane gasoline was blended at the dispenser using 65% 87 octane regular and 35% 93 octane premium.

Agree. Scary. Never thought of China as a 3rd world country. I've now changed my mind. Can't believe they sell this junk...............and e-bay allows it.

Yep. and the parts are needed often.

Buy the vehicle for the buyout number. The finance company owns the car and holds the title, not the dealer. Your daughter won't need to go to the dealer and certainly won't need to turn the car in. Call the lease company and they will give you a buyout number with all taxes and fees included...

Commodity price of Pure Ethanol is now $1.80 per gallon. Commodity price of Pure Gasoline (not RBOB) is $2.01 per gallon. The difference in price is $0.21 or 21 cents per gallon. A 10% ethanol blended gasoline is about 2.1 cents per gallon lower cost to the gas station than a pure gasoline...

Crude oil: $65.91 per barrel = $1.57 per gallon. Only about 40% to 45% of a barrel of oil can be converted into gasoline. RBOB (Reformulated Base for Oxygenate Blending) gasoline = $2.15 per gallon. Crude transformation to gasoline requires refining along with pipeline, ship, truck...

The retail gasoline market is extremely competitive. If the government didn't require gas stations by law to post their prices on a sign out in front of each gas station there would probably be a wider difference in prices. Since prices are posted at the street it is easy to see a competitor's...

What chance are you waiting to present itself?

Was working at a corner full-serve gas station in the late 70's outside in the summer pumping gas. 4-lane highway divided by concrete median at an intersection. 4 cars (2 in each lane one behind the other) pointing East at the stoplight waiting for the green. Motorcycle in right lane behind 2 of...

Wow! Brilliant! Thanks for sharing this information.

Originally Posted by BigD1 Remove the two screws that are holding it to the wall. Might be some kind of sealer behind the flange that you will need to break loose too. Should pull right out of the wall if you have it disconnected from the inside. Then slide the spigot out of the wall until it...

Bend the copper pipe enough to use a Close Quarters Tubing Cutter.

Cut the copper pipe with a tubing cutter?

Maybe the ticking sound isn't a lifter. It might be an exhaust manifold leak. Check the exhaust manifold bolts between the exhaust manifolds and the heads. Many times a stud breaks caused by expansion and contraction during the heating and cooling cycles. The broken stud allows a slight...

Air density will also affect fuel mileage of a vehicle. Air density changes with altitude, temperature and humidity. At one atmosphere of pressure at sea level and identical humidity, air density will increase about 17% as the air temperature falls from 80F to zero F. About 50% of the...

Ethanol has a lower energy content than gasoline. Blending ethanol into gasoline lowers the resulting blended fuels energy content. Butane has an energy content much lower than pure gasoline similar to the energy content of ethanol. Winter gasoline (whether blended with ethanol or not)...