no more Gasoline in Portugal

[Harrison]

No need for convertion, its an 1998 clio 1 Phase 2 with fuel injector pump, only needs to make convertion common Rail diesel engines with turbo (dci, tdi, hdi etc...)

So if you get an older diesel car without a turbo you can just run pure vegetable oil without any problems? Interesting.

Do you have to do anything to the used oil before you can put it into the car? Filter it for example to remove any particles/food?

[Tiago]

Well Harrison, there's strikes and blocades, the truck drivers have their trucks stoped at borders and dont allow anyone to pass... i think they let go medical stuff only, but is not only in Portugal, France have a similar situation.

I just read now that in Portugal goverment and truck drivers reach a deal... so maybe the blocade will end here in PT, but in France will keep going i think

[Harrison]

I find it strange that we haven't had wider coverage of this in our news.

[Tiago]

I find it strange that we haven't had wider coverage of this in our news.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7447869.stm


taken from yahoo news, this one:

In Portugal, two truck drivers also suffered burns in similar incidents in Santarem, north of Lison.

Portuguese police stepped up patrols after a striker manning a picket line north of Lisbon was run over and killed by a lorry on Tuesday.

Police escorted about 40 oil trucks to petrol stations around Lisbon and the western town of Setubal. Strikers had prevented the trucks from leaving a warehouse north of the capital.

Long queues formed at many petrol stations, some of which were out of supplies.

The Portuguese truckers vowed to step up their blockades Wednesday, particularly in the north of the country, where they plan to seal off the port of Leixos as well as supermarket warehouses.

Several supermarket chains have already expressed concern over the shortage of fresh products, especially milk.

[JLPedro]

I think there's not been much talk about this crise in portugal because most of the world thinks Portugal is a part of Spain... .

And by the way, yes you need to filter the oil very well, and using 100% of vegetable oil is very risky, the maximum i would risk in summer days (more heat the better) would be 40% diesel and 60% Veg oil.

[Zetr0]

The future is HHO my friends.....

[Buleste]

There are some fuel strikes to hit the U.K. soon. Not for any moral reason like the high price of fuel but because the oil companies are making such vast profits yet aren't passing it down to the workers. And of course panic buying is setting in as once again the British go in headless chicken mode.