If gas hits $10 a gallon im gonna learn how to make my ride run on brew and start making my own fuel... I only need one bath tub and my house has two.

 

Brew fuel . . . with what? There are enough home-brewers of bio-diesel made from used restaurant cooking oil that the restaurants have become aware that they have a resource of some value, and the home-brew crowd is finding it increasingly difficult to find oil free for the taking. If the unfriendlies crank up oil prices, this will become true of all kinds of supplies for homebrewed alcohols as well.

I sure hope cooler heads will prevail, but if they don't, all of us could pay very dearly for the fact that we did nothing much in the last 38 years to develop energy alternatives. The unfriendlies know perfectly well that if they can take control, they have the Great Satan by the 'nads. The recovery from this recession is expected by most parties to be a slow one, the typical prediction being that it will take about six years. During that period, cash-strapped federal/state/local governments are going to be on the brink of bankruptcy.

The demonstrators in the streets that you saw on the nightly news are NOT happy with the USA for supporting their dictators, nor for supporting Israel. Suppose that during our fragile economic recovery, the unfriendlies make another war on Israel. We would, at great expense to ourselves, come to Israel's aid. Would this again get the Arabs so steamed that they would cut off our oil, AS THEY DID IN '73?? This time, the Chinese are available to buy and stockpile any oil we don't take, so the Arabs wouldn't feel the pain of lost sales, as they did in '73 (and in fact THIS IS ALREADY HAPPENING, and the China is becoming their customer of choice). A oil cut-off, or merely a big rise in fuel prices, say to a mere $6 a gallon, will not just kill the recovery, it could put us right into a depression.

Not telling you to stay awake nights worrying (and I don't feel I'm being political here), just to "war-game" your own future, in the various ways it might play out. Meanwhile, developing highly fuel-efficient Ford sixes is our patriotic duty. Rah! Let's do it!! Personally, I'm waiting for better weather here so I can crawl around under my 1968 bread-truck (300-six) to take measurements so I can weld up an exhaust system like y'all have never seen, heh heh heh!


EDIT, a couple of days later:
Just to show that I don't deal soley in gloomy possibilities, I should mention another kind. The Chinese are currently trying to deal with a property-value bubble much like the housing bubble we saw collapse recently. If they are not able to arrange a soft landing, and if their bubble bursts as ours did, one outcome of a Chinese recession could be a considerable drop in commodities prices, which themselves are in a bubble. This scenario could give us CHEAPER oil and gasoline, also maybe cheaper metals prices . . . which I am hoping for, as a welder who has been having to pay terrible prices for steel.

So there!

 

I meant booze, it would be easier to convert it over to alchohol. I have a sazuki that runs on bio diesel and I am not a fan of the stuff. Ether way if its cheaper to make it yourself i'll be going that route. I am only 23 and having lost my job the fords about to get parked for the second time in its life really don't want to but its likely to happen.

 

The way gas prices are creeping up, converting my Bronco to run on puppies and orphans was a great decision. I expect both will be even more plentiful and abundant if the economy goes further south...

 

No, the Chinese will have their agents buying up all surplus puppies and orphans.

 

The Weber 32/36 is FANTASTIC! on a 2.3 Ford 4 banger, but its a little small for the straight 6s.
Its not even quite enough for my 2.8 V-6.

 

Ya I have other options lol, I just gotta come up with the intake.

 

Holley 390 4bbl can give phenomenal mpg if you keep your foot out of it.
I know a guy who runs a 3904v on his 302 Ranger...........he gets better mpg by far with the 302 than the V-6 it replaced.

 

My trucks geared way low in the back with a granny box and its pretty heavy so if I could ge better then the 8 mpg I am getting now Id be ok with it.

 

2100/2150 2bbl off a 302, would be a good one for you, Simple, reliable about 300cfm.

 

Ya I found a motorcraft, not sure if its a 2100 or 2150 but its got 1.21 venturis and seems to be in decent shape although its missing the choke.

 

Supposedly, the ideal one is a 1.08 version, but I don't see how one of the bigger ones wouldn't still be good. I really liked my 2150

 

IIRC, the 1.08 = 240cfm, the 1.14 off Mustangs was 287cfm. I know the 1.21 = 351cfm. Any one would be fine on a stockish 300. I've got a 1.21" 2150 I should finally be able to swap on for my Edelbrock 500 this weekend now that it's practically spring here in Dallas.