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Old 02-21-2012, 04:30 PM   #21 (permalink)
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I would burn up to 25% WVO if I could even collect that much in the summer back in virginia.
During the winter time I would run 5% or less most of the time.

Burning WVO would push my diesel only fuel milage well into the 30s, over all WVO+diesel consumption stayed about the same in the 20s.



It was 22 here this morning, I think they called for a low of 31. The low being 10 degrees lower than forcasted is pretty normal.
I am in clovis how about you?
Last year we had a 10 day stretch of -10'F or lower for a week, this year we had a few mornings where is was right around 0'F.
Socorro, last year hit -13, lowest ever recorded here. Did you have gas and electric problems during that cold snap last year? We just had low natural gas pressure, but some friends in Las Cruces lost power and gas for several hours.

One of the guys in the off road club got ahold of a 2.5 ton truck that he was planning on running on waste oil, he wasn't planning on running it much in the winter, even then he was planning on blending it in the winter to prevent gelling. I havent seen it in his yard recently so I think he got rid of it.

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Old 02-21-2012, 05:17 PM   #22 (permalink)
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It hit -16, they warned of possible power outages, which would have been bad since the POS trailer I was renting athe the time had electric spaces heaters and a fire place.

I wouldn't be surprized if we had low gas pressure for the people who had natural gas (I have natural gas now).

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