Thank you mr Biden!!!
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Well we need to look at it this way. This DOW site might be come one of the biggest hit viewing numbers sites ever in history.
And Wayne will have to do a second edition print on "Have Wood Will Travel " now wouldnāt be nice. Of course the price of the book will have to go up and membership. This why I am a Life Time Premium Member. It is going to happen.
Everything is going up in prices, gasoline and other fuels all included. People like to drive there vehicles, boat, planes, RV, ATV, motorcycles, and other fuel powered things. here in America our economy and economics is based off of the petrol dollar. The American people drive more than any other people in this world. If the greety Oil Lords do what they did in 2008-09, more people will find this site and act on it, and become doers in gasification and not just readers. As they say monies talk, and like the 1970ās gas embargo, it will cause people to take action.
We have the scientific work all done and many plans to built. It just takes some more doers to take action in the wonderful world of gasification. And in all areas of using it. In America we could clean up our old over grown poor US Forestry Service manage Forests. Out here in the West we are burning things up again. āWill he ever learn will he ever learnā as the song goes.
Bob
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Jan, you may have to ask your wife for a rise 
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Itās about 2.89 a gallon here but itās rising slowly.
In South Carolina itās usually 30-50 cents cheaper because they dont extract road tax from gasoline price.
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I think Iām too old for that.
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From what I can see the speedometer shows 115 km/h. Already at 80 km/h it would mean āGood bye driverās licenceā here, if you get busted 
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Cody, Here in Washington State we have some of the highest road taxes. We do have nice roads hope they stay that way if we have to pay for itā¦
Bob
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The east side has way nicer roads I think, my commute to work is 25 miles of pothole ridden cracked breaking patched crap, 10 miles of nicer roads in auburn. But the crap road has nice scenery by the lakes and farms and doesnāt bother me growing up here
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Your 13 year old is out making a life of his own now. You did good raising him proper to know how to DOW. Are either of the trucks still on the road burning wood gas?
Thanks for the ride. This video was before the 92 Dakota truck from the book was built.
Bob
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Good morning Mr. Bob
The ford belongs to Doug Brethower in Missouri and as far as I know is still going.
The 93 dakota was sold to a guy and was left parked 3-4 years and failed to start . I bought the truck back and fixed it ( fuel pump ) . I removed the gasifier and have the truck here for my next gasifier build . As soon as I can think of any update I will use this truck .
Two years back JO and Kristijan road in this truck 
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Started adding Marvel Mystery Oil to the gas tank in the Mazda. I noticed I donāt have weird idling issues anymore since I did that. Maybe itās helping keep my jets clean? Or maybe Iām just having a season of luck and the truck just happens to be working fine.
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Australian fuel prices are the biggest rip off i have ever come across , they have what is called a cycle so maybe just maybe once a month they go to the bottom of the cycle for about a week at the moment the low price is $1.33 a liter there are 3.7854 literās to a us gallon that makes it $5.034582 us , but in a few days time the cycle will go back up for roughly 3 weeks and then prices will go up to who knows what , last one went up to $1.78 a litre thatās $us 6.7373 a us gallon .imagine having that in your countries where you never know from one day to the next what price your going to pay ! and like sheep all bloody Aussies just pay it as they earn too much bloody money they just put there prices up more to match , in the UK if the fuel price is listed at a increase of just 2 pence it makes headline news and people boycott that outlet .
I drive a 4 litre v6 Hilux and it is crying out for wood or charcoal , but i live 2 thirds up a mountain that has over grown bushland and mountain ash gum treeās that is prone to bush fires every year , if i were to ever accidently start a bush fire here i reckon they would string me up and pack me off to there penal colony called England .
Dave
( the winging Pom )
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Driving on the charcoal shouldnāt be an issue, but I do see how making charcoal could be a fire risk in the worst case scenario. With my TLUD I see tons of embers fly up into the air so I do it near my garden hose incase my lawn catches fire and Iām always not far from it while burning. Maybe a well insulated and covered up charcoal retort like Kristijanās would lessen the fire risk?
I make enough charcoal on a daily basis for running my generators in my wood stove inside the house all safe and secure , if i had to run a truck ,and needed bulk amounts could make it at Brianās scrap yard , the problem here are the hills , no way would my truck manage the hills for a start and then there is the issue of modifications , in Victoria where i am if you alter anything at all on your car you have to inform them as part of the yearly rego is 3rd party insurance and so if you were to say , it runs on wood gas they would just cancel your rego , and the first cop that has a number plate reader will get a pop up that its not in rego and hey presto just for starters thatās $800 fine plus who knows what other crap they would want to throw at you .
But trust me one day i will run the the truck on wood/char gas for sure but it may not be in the height of summer
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Iām not sure how steep of a grade your hills are Down Under but I live in Appalachia and with my little wimpy 2 litre Mazda engine Iām clearing hills okay, though I do gun it for the hills to keep speed limit. But I understand with the government regulation on modifications and thatās unfortunate.
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The thing about living half way up the mountain, Dave, is that half your driving is downhill. Chargas downhill, petrol up. With all the regulation in your country Iād be getting government provided housing in about a blink of the eye. Never been much of a rule follower. Probably why all my contact with the outside world is cyber.
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Yerā doing ok Dave.
You are DYI on your home energy mostly.
Thatās at least 1/3rd of it. With wood-for-heat, even can claim to be doing 2/3rds.
Morān the vast majority.
No need to have the fist-thrust-up in defiance to it all.
Thatās stooop-id. To call the dogs onto yourself. I never could understand the roads defiant. Too low. Too high. Too noisy. Too damn flashy.
Just be sneaky, slid thru; blend in. Laughing about the dollars saved for real needful things.
Steve Unruh
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Can I like this a hundred times?
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You have my permission jeff, what steve said makes the best sence too me too.!!! SWEM ? stay warm,AND FREE.
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