http://disqus.com/by/WWWBBB/enFri, 16 Oct 2009 16:30:48 -0000http://www.windowstorussia.com/2009/10/running-propane-lpg-in-our-volga-wagon.html#comment-20229893<p>Propane falls just behind gasoline and diesel as the most common vehicle fuel in the United States, and some 10 million vehicles use it worldwide. The Department of Energy says propane produces less carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and non methane hydrocarbon emissions than gasoline. Increasing annual consumption by 10 percent could displace nearly 1 billion gallons of gasoline by 2017, according to the Propane Education Research Council.</p><p>I found some more good stuff. I wish that I had a car with propane. Damn Russians!</p><p>WB</p>WWWBBBFri, 16 Oct 2009 16:30:48 -0000http://www.windowstorussia.com/2009/10/running-propane-lpg-in-our-volga-wagon.html#comment-20195978<p>Will propane hurt my engine?<br> <br>NO! In fact, propane is on the light end of the hydrocarbon scale, meaning there is almost no carbon in it. Carbon is what turns your motor oil black. As a result of using a propane system, your oil will stay clean in a new engine and will get cleaner each time on an existing engine. Because propane goes into the engine as a vapor, there is no "raw" fuel entering the cylinders, which washes past the piston rings and into the oil. This is a major reason propane engines last about three times as long as a gasoline engine.<br>Propane will not burn the valves. On older engines with our hardened valve seats,this used to be a problem. Even this wasn't a problem until tons of miles were accumulated.On engines designed to run unleaded-no worries.<br>It is me WB and I got a profile now.</p>WWWBBBFri, 16 Oct 2009 10:11:14 -0000