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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (119130)	4/29/2008 7:53:30 AM
From: ChanceIs	Respond to of 306849

Slightly OT - Mercedes diesels My current E300 - a 1995 - has about a 22 gallon fuel tank (diesel). I vacation in Maine in the summer - almost Canada. Last August, I filled up in town and headed south. I made it to the end of the Jersey turnpike - 700 miles - before needing to fill up. I stopped there because Jersey diesel is was) very inexpensive. As soon as you cross the Delaware River into Delaware the price goes way up. I could have gone 750 I am sure. As for 240Ds, I think that was one of the finest automobiles ever designed. The lines are timeless. Simple, clean, handsome. Super mechanically reliable, clean, easy to maintain. Why only slightly OT vice completely OT??? Because you can still today find - usually on eBay - 240Ds for sale and advertised with the extra fuel tank in the trunk. This harkens back to the fuel line days of the '70s when it really paid to make your car into a bomb on wheels with perhaps 35+ gallons on board. Likely go 1,000 miles. That was a big deal when you had to wait 2-3 hours in line to get to a pump, and you had to deal with that odd-even day rationing system. Funny that nobody is talking fuel shortages today. The common assumption is that the fuel will always be there if you are willing to pay $6, $7, $8........ That isn't so in Scotland today. ADM's net on ethanol dropp, but corporate net was up.