And now, for something completely different, and not much time wasted, the video needs no explanation!
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Am classic car museum in Sweden. I learned 2% (100,000+) of Swedish cars are Am classics.
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Here is one that gives much food for thought:
Ha! If you want the lowest pump gasoline price in Western Europe . . . Switzerland!?
A landlocked country with no domestic sources for petroleum; and no easy big ocean tanker shipping ports.
Another anomaly . . . Mongolia!? Again a landlocked country with no domestic petroleum production.
Pretty easy to see that the prominent progressive countries are using taxes/tariffs to jack up consumer gasoline prices to push as rapidly as possible the change over to all-transport electrification.
Even countries with actual âdomesticâ controlled petroleum production. Scotland, Denmark, Norway.
Same, same actually here in the USofA.
Understandable why consumer pump gasoline in Hawaii and Alaska would be so high. Small markets without actual refineries in-state.
But California and Washington Staes with our taxes jacked up higher prices that cannot be the reason. We, in these states do have the deep ocean water ports. Do have the multiple refineries. And unlike the Western European progressive countries in these big spread out states there is NO POSSIBILY for the full electrification of rail (heavy or light); trolley cars; transport trucks, or even all-must personal electric vehicles.
Here USofA we go 3/4x down; to 2x to 3x + in actual prices spread of what this video would say for us.
Ainât no such thing as equal âequityâ for ALL. That is a magic unicorn fantasy. âFunâ to speculate on . . . just not a tangible Real to base a life onto.
A hammer tool now . . . that is Real. Create and build. Or break up destroy. A real change things tool.
S.U.
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Strange, Switzerland is one of the first and then again at the end. The same for Austria, not my experience. Almost got a heardattack overthere, more expensive then the Netherlands. Luxembourg is ok. Kids go there to buy cigarettes and a fill up 
300 km/200 ml drive one way
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Hawaii and alaska both have refineries. The real cost is transport of the oil and/or the refined product, then add the taxes. This is beyond the markup for oil which gets into things like OPEC.
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Didnt check the pictures yet but we had a quick trip to Torin. Suplier was blabla and I decided to jump in the car before it all turned into a mess. Worked from 6.00-22.00 and left for Italy at 22.30 with the middle one.
AltAir in Italy
Netherlands, Liempde
Germany, Dorlisheim
Switzerland, Deitingen. Diesel âŹ2.10
We tried Col de Bernard to enter Italy but it was still closed. Off course we didnt believe the signs and had to check it out ourselves. Snowing
and no wintertyres.
Italian ice (the best) pizza and our filterbags, ready to go home now.
We turned back for a picture. This is clean.
France, Bonneville
My privat driver. He did most of the driving.
Luxembourg, Berchem. The winner!
Belgium, Liege
And the end. Driving hours and distance. Not much wasted in breaks. Back home 3.00 fridaymornong and started working 9.00. Hard to keep the balance between work/family.
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I know that a lot of Europeans speak English but how difficult is the language differences traveling between countries on a trip like that?
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i always fight at the border or with Croatian policemen. On our way back Max wanted Switzerland again. Not a good idea I tought. He forgot his drivers licence and our passports and we didnt have any exportpapers of our goods (Swiss is not EU). The day before we were lucky to enter via Basel during rush hour but now at a small mountain post we were picked out. The guy only spoke Italian. I tried English, German and even French but he kept speaking Italian only. Ok, I tought, now it is time to teach him some Dutch. Haha. Funny situation. I still see the reaction of my son. My rule, keep smiling and you can even say he smells like rotten fish. Well, someone had to change his course to understand each other and it is not meâ:grinning:. I tried from the beginning, the trip is long and I dont care about a few hours extra. After half an hour and a lot of discussion ( three douaniers took part) he shook his shoulders, try the next window. Just what I thought, what is the fuzz. The next window were the same questions and without papers or creditcard we decided to drive down again. no one asked for passports yet. And driving in the mountains drives me crazy as a flatlander, I love it.
Well Tom, that is the only foreign conversation we had . For the rest is it give your money and it will be ok. No words needed. Toll road is all automatic whitout people.
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Tom, now that you brought it up. It is not the language that gives trouble, it is money. 25 years ago we need Belgium Francs, frence F, swiss F, Deutsch Marken and Italian Lires.
If we went to Croatia we needed Austra Shilling, I think it was Tollar in Slovenia, kuna in Croatia and KM in Bosnia. Just one big mess in your wallet.
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It is hard to relate, when we used to go to canada, they posted what they would give for the exchange rate by the register for the US dollar.
Most of the time, you just paid with credit card if you could, because that gave the exact exchange rate.
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Good Morning All
My wifeâs 2021 Toyota Highlander Hybrid we bought last October has just turned 36,000 miles. No longer any chance for a plea-back for basic power train warrantee. So NOW I can put the oil I want into it.
I have chosen to go up from the 0W-16 specified to the much more common to find 0W-20.
Here are two videos that helped me decide I was not going to cause any problems:
This one longer. And harder for follow. So the couple of things important to learn.
The lower number; 0, 5, 10 indicated the more stable base oil stock viscosity. They then blend in manufactured long chain additives to get the higher hot grade number of 16, 20, 30, 40. And these long chain molecules will break down with heat; pumping ; and restrictions squirting shearing/turbulances, that WILL lower their viscosity effectiveness with time in useage.
Second thing in this video is that GM for time had a surface finishing problem on thier crankshafts, and/or supplied bearing inserts. Similar to Hyundaiâs Theta engines failures.
And couple of other recent manufactures, manufacturing OPPâs.
Next video more directly explains out why you can in these CNC tight clearances, precision-made engine, up some your oils viscosities:
Mr Lake, Jr much better highlights the effects of working engine oil temperatures and RPM/bearing loading factors.
8 months now I have live data scanned the wifeâs Toyota Hybrid and the engine is only being operated for engine heated coolant heater-heat; sometimes batteries charging; and acceleration boosting. So it runs the oil much cooler than Iâve come to expect. Engine coolant is NOT at 220-230F. You can at any time pull the oil dipstick and continuously hand hold its end. Means it is no higher than 160F.
So it NEEDS a thinner lower viscosity oil for its many relatively cool engine stopping/starting cycles.
Ha! And my educator visiting nursing wife is STILL annually driving too damn many miles!
Steve Unruh
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Hey Fellows
Digest this one. Good maps and charts. Very, very relevant to where I and others live.
Out here you can bitch, whine, complain, rally-march, signs wave, and write letters all you want. It will not tilt the pump prices at all.
The realistic personal solution out here is to aways have a fuel-slipper vehicle for your accumulative miles driving. Have the picking-um-up truck be old, and driven less; only when really, really needed. Donât be a âFancyâ with any of your vehicles. They are working tools. Let others covet, hand polish shine, and stress about their classics . . . or the newest, latest pretty shiny new Precious.
This solution has been working for me, and the smartest of the family for 55 years.
Steve Unruh
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Three weeks since Iâve driven anywhere. Wife goes out about every 10 days or so for perishable food. Since I am trying to go completely self sufficient on the garden I really donât need much from the box store which is my only going out destination. Havenât even had an amazon delivery in a couple of weeks. I see from the TV that there is still some kind of world out there unless itâs all AI and CG
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Clear about prices and clear that government/investors want everyone to go electric. We are happy to drive electric, it makes you free how to fille the battery. Now with PV and the point of woodgas/ veggie oil is close to come for us. Go with the flow, I am an obedient citizen At least at first glance.
Edit, only the kids consume 1000 l/ 250 gallons a month. Try to change that to electric.
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She completely missed some of the refinery requirement for gasoline on the left coast. As I understand it, they all adopted the CaRFG. Which are like reduced sulfur, benzene, and olefins in the fuels plus a lower evaporation temperature. Essentially only fuel produced in left coast refineries can be sold there, and it is more then the 10c she showed for the reformulation for e10. Including taxes the article I read claimed 1.40/gal. So add that to the 2 dollar base price, then add transport and profits for the finished gasoline by distributors and gas stations, and it is easily over 4/gal.
Oh you are screwed. california is closing two of its refineries or 20% of itâs refining capacity one by the end of this year, and one by the end of 26 which means california is going to be looking at oregon and washington for supply.
Unless congress or maybe Trump stomps out the Biden exemption for California.
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Some time ago (years?) we talked about diesel chainsaws, the other day i made this video, as i had some questions from other not Swedish speaking friends.
Sorry for my mumbling, stuttering English, it doesnât become clearer because i got sinusitis in addition 
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Speak of gorans diesel chainsaw this just came up this morning that I found very entertaining, poor boy converting a lawn mower on gasoline to a âhot bulb pre ignition engineâ and feeding it all sorts of fuel to failure. A little mindless brain rot enginânerding but I did pick up some tidbits of knowledge along the way
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Have you seen this video? It might be interesting to build 100% iron fans.
Invention gĂ©niale du soudeur ! Des milliards dâagriculteurs nâont besoin que dâune perceuse Ă main
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