Thursday, July 17, 2008

Swedish Man Converts Car To Run On Firewood

What happened to American / Maine ingenuity? And this is NOT April Fools Day either!

WCSH6.com | Portland, ME | Swedish Man Converts Car To Run On Firewood: "STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- One Swedish retiree is chopping his gasoline bills with wood. Tore Blomqvist has converted his car to run on wood gas.
The 78-year-old former mechanic says that's what they did during the gas shortages of World War II.

Wood is partially burned in a contraption on the back of his car. The resulting combustible gas is fed into the engine instead of gasoline.

He says a recent 300-mile drive cost him just 17 bucks for four bags of firewood, instead of nearly $120 for gasoline.

(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.) "

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