Comments on: It might even work on Bud Light

By: Kirk

Kirk — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:16:03 +0000

This is what I get for going on vacation and not reading my usual blogs: all the good snarky comments about long road trips are already taken!

By: CGHill

CGHill — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:25:32 +0000

Some years back, the nutballs at Car and Driver attempted to drive a diesel Jetta cross-country without stopping to refuel. This required some modifications to the Vee Dub — notably, an auxiliary fuel tank which was bigger than the standard tank — and one addition for driver comfort: a length of plastic tubing for, um, drainage purposes, which exited somewhere near the fuel filler.

Beyond that, deponent saith not, especially this close to dinnertime.

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:04:48 +0000

I’m thinking of something along the lines of the combined potty/recliner that Homer Simpson invented on one episode of that show. (Of course, I’m also female, and I now realize that there’s a bit of a flaw in the plan for the male half of the population…)

By: McGehee

McGehee — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:42:30 +0000

They could arrange for tank refills to be made while the car is moving, but how to wick the replenishment out of the cabin and into the tank? Is it really possible to do that “up a rope?”

By: Lisa Paul

Lisa Paul — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:28:32 +0000

Hey, San Francisco is recycling dog poo to a methane plant which now provides fuel for heating all the city’s schools. So anything is possible. Waste not, want not as my New England Grandmother used to say.

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:02:05 +0000

If nothing else, it means people will need to make fewer stops on long road trips… refueling and, um, “offloading” can probably be both done at highway speeds….

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:49:50 +0000

So Howard Hughes was indeed ahead of his time.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:04:50 +0000

Too bad Oldsmobile is gone — this would be a natural for them.