Today, alternative propulsion systems are more or less a thing. We’ve got hybrids, and battery-powered electric cars, bio-fuels, pneumatic systems, hydrogen fuel cells… and wood. Yes, wood. At least, one old man has wood. No pun intended.
Herb Hartman, a retired machinist with a 1991 Cadillac, doesn’t really worry about those $4 gallon gas prices these days. Rather, he’s just in search of good firewood. Mostly, he attains the biomass from a friend, and fills a giant black tank fitted on the back of his old Cadillac (it cost him $700), where he claims he can go fifty miles on the stuff. Hartman notes that he can use pretty much any other biomass, dead grass for example, but the density of the wood is what makes it the fuel of choice.
If only it wasn’t for all the labor and smoke, though. To learn more, watch the video here.
Comments
Can I get a CARB EO on that? Thanks.
This car would never get our of Nevada. California would stop him from entering. I am not joking.
To each their own but on a Cadillac? Why not on a bread and butter car like Chevy?
The Germans did this during WWII with the lack of oil near the end. It is nothing new.
I am shocked the EPA has not shut him down with Obamas new regulations.
As for why a Cadillac. Why not as this is not a Cadillac many want and it may have come cheap. It is not a CTS or V series.
Who did I offend the Deville lovers, Obama lovers, The tree huggers, The Anti Germans?
Fact the Germans fabricated these at the end of WWII
Fact the Executive order signed by Obama permits the EPA to shut down emission like this from Power Plants and others that are nearly identical to these only more controls to scrub them.
Fact Deville’s are cheap on the used market due to low demand.
If you have a beef and want to prove any of these wrong with these statements then do so.
Another simple fact on the EPA. They stopped a Boy Scout troop from having a car wash as it could was soap into the Chesapeake Bay.
The fact is the EPA has more ability and control over our daily lives than many of the law makers do as they have been given power by the White House and the SCOTUS to enact regulations that those who you voted into office can not touch.