The Bizarre History of Gasoline | WheelHouse
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- Опубликовано: 4 ноя 2018
- Gasoline is the world’s most ubiquitous fuel source. But not long ago, it was a thought of as a useless byproduct and thrown away. So how did gasoline become such a hot commodity? And how long will gas last? Find out this week on WheelHouse.
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They hit 69 feet
Nolan :nice
Say Man those dirty people they stopped at 69feet also
They all went home and ate pretzels
Bogget
Pretzel is just another word for 69...
Someone was being funny.
My mom just died yesterday. These videos are helping me cheer up a bit. Thank you guys
sorry brother :(
Fuck man I'm sorry
Keep ya head up
Hey Bro, i'm Sorry for your loss... But stay strong! I hope you get better soon!
Bro u are very strong, cuz u dare to speak about it loud, sorry for ur loss man, wish you the best of luck!
I know this isn’t an up to speed but i had a bunch of ideas hit my head
1. Impala
2. TRD
3. Chevy SS sedan
4. Lexus GS/IS series cars
Well you wouldn't do an Up to Sped on the Chevy SS. You'd do an Up to Speed on the Holden Commodore. Which would include the SS and the G8, since those cars were both rebadged Commodores.
2. Who cares about TuRDs. Toyota has the market cornered on frame rust.
Oh shit and Tacoma and the Baja 500 (since you’ve touched the topic a few times before)
Scott Rider i was thinking the same thing after i posted but i couldn’t remember their names and didn’t wanna embarrass my self lmao
@@scottrider8445 I own a 04 Pontiac GTO. Felt bad on the GTO vid, the Monaros are so cool.
Please do a Wheel House on Bodykits. I'm sure there's a nice story to it.
@Massimo De Grazia lmao good one.
@Massimo De Grazia 😆
Easy, the fast and furious franchise
They kind of cover it in airo on science garage
@@thebigdog9785 Yeah...but Science Garage doesn't cover the story part. I wanna know where it started, who started a new trend at each decade, when was the real bodykit craze and more!
Last time I was this early Phumphrey's dad was still around
@@matouslitera8073 thanks homie, missed that mistake
Claudio Munoz lol
Look at Italy! Look how much it costs! I live there and I spend 70€ of a full tank of diesel in my little Kia Cee'd, that's over 80$... And Gasoline costs even more and a friend of mine who owns a BMW 320i pays around 90€ for a full tank, well over 100$!!! And that's every two weeks... Plus, the property tax here in Italy is absolutely absurd and if you own a car that has 250hp you have to pay around 1000€ a year for it and if you have a even more powerful car, it's 20€ for each KW more. So basically owning a Hellcat would be like paying 5.000€ a year for it, if not more. Italy, the country of Maserati, Ferrari, Lamborghini... but everyone here drives Fiat Punto and Fiat Panda.
Yeah.
It sucks here.
But fortunately EVs are gonna save us, if they move their asses trying developing the infrastructure.
We already have massive incentives, but we need more competition and info spread!
You’re a serf to your government, you need to overthrow them and live free. It’s about 30$ US to fill my midsize car and 70$ to fill my 400hp pickup truck. The registration tax is 180$ for two years.
@@johnnyreb86 Yeah.
And go to jail maybe.
Anyway, it's stupid to count gas to "fillup".
In my area I see prices of ~1.65 to liter.
Japanese having this kind of problem too, house of great cars but hard to use those great car
Also from Italy but I live in the US. Your gas is super hot, high octane awesomeness...US gas is water with a spark, it wouldn't start a lawnmower in Europe....so you pay for quality gas, that's why you pay more, US gas is low octane garbage, that's why we need big ass engines to move vehicles....
That daily income bit just told me I'm poor as hell😐
Gotta start my morning with a little coffee and some donut
@@reallyhappenings5597 a bit uncalled for. No need to be a nasty troll.
SleepingKnightsRS421. In that I find the op stultifyingly unoriginal, it feels necessary to me to respond disruptively.
Gas station donuts are awesome!
Really Happenings the hell is wrong with you?
Premium, 100 octane, and e85 are my favorites to run on my stock Civic.
my lawnmower sounds better than your honda.
why ? you have a pile of shit stick with octane 87
@@carft1234 couldn't have said it better
Fuel mileage sucks with e85
Dont waste good fuel.. thank you
"Pure ethanol engines don't exist outside of tracks". Brazil's huge ethanol engines industry says hello to the US.
it also says goodbye to the rain forest.
Ethanol absorbs water from the air degrading it.
@@rzpogi nop, any fuel based on carbon will oxide in contact with air, turning it into acid and water. This happens with gas and diesel too, just take more time.
@@nelspaulson3099 It was already chopped before that... To grow pastures for cattle. Sugar cane is grown on low value land (when its ok for cane) where corn/soybeans or pastures dont grow well.
@@nelspaulson3099 the rain forest is like 2000 miles from where sugar cane is planted, so you don't have any idea of what you are talking about, rainforest soil don't grow almost nothing that is agriculturaly useful, it it used almost aways for wood
Bruh I love how they had that sick beat playing over the historical beginning of gas
Nolan is my dad, which makes Pumphrey my grandpa.
Lifes good
That cost difference is why Europeans are so mindful about mpg and low displacement while over here in America we like our big v8s with bad mpg just because we can while shooting bald eagles out the back
I'm literally so jelaous of americans
I fucking hate small engines and i love big powerfull v8s
i don't want to give a single fuck about insurance and mpgs but unfortunately i have to 😠
Also europe is going to shit anyway because of the migration crisis and it won't be safe anymore so i'll move to america as soon as i can
And also because taxes are calculated based on displacement.
Also in Europe you usually have most roads being very twisty, so a V8 would be even worse in mpg than it does in America with almost all straights
Personally I much prefer high rev engines than V8s. A V8 just seems like a sleepy electricity generator engine
Until you don't have a nice lick of bold Eagles they are just going to wonder! 😂
In America we don’t shoot bald eagles.
Filipe Saramago the only thing that beats a v8 in my mind is a v12 and I’ll hand that one to Italy
"diesels pollute more." not true. Def systems make a diesel have almost no emissions at all.
VW agrees
it has a lot of problems tho, for example it can crystalize and fuck up the system, and it can also make the nox sensor break down
Thanks! I was waiting an episode like this one. Congratulations dudes!
There's a company in Canada that is working to produce gasoline by extracting Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere, so we could have completely carbon neutral fuel and put it into our gasoline engines. We wouldn't have to buy new cars to switch, and it would last as long as normal cars, without having the risk of failure that hybrids and solar panels have.
hopefully this synfuel really takes off, that way combustion motors can continue long into the future.
Carbon dioxide can't burned. It almost impossible to used It as a fuel
The concept of converting Carbon dioxide back into gasoline is very complicated. Please don’t bet on this technology being industrially viable in the next 50 years. Don’t get me wrong, you can (in a lab) take carbon dioxide and form gasoline. The problem is the amount of energy you need to put into the system makes it so you are always going to spend more energy than you get out of this process.
www.google.com/amp/s/relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/2018/06/carbon-engineering-liquid-fuel-carbon-capture-neutral-science
Here is the article you mentioned. I’d like to point out a few lines in this National Geographic article
1. “While the process requires a lot of electricity, the pilot plant in Squamish uses renewable hydro power. “
2. “It costs more than a barrel of oil right now, but in places with a price on carbon of $20 a ton we’re competitive.”
Oh neat, but we already have that. It's called ethanol. Plants take in carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to grow. Then we process it into ethanol. Then burn it, in total releasing less Co2 than it took to produce.
Ethanol has been used in cars for years. Brazil has been using e100 fuel since the 70s and most modern cars are rated at least for e85 (though actually they can typically handle e100)
Thank you so much for mentioning the negatives of ethanol! We should absolutely stop subsidizing it and use the land to grow food! Great video on all points.
All negative comments about ethanol fuel are incorrect. They are either lies, exaggerations, or myths. They were mostly invented by the petroleum oil industry.
Ethanol doesn't harm engines, it cleans engines. It doesn't suck water out of the air, but it will absorb water that naturally forms because of condensation. Gasoline can't do this so people have to resort to using engine additives that can cost as much as 2 or 3 gallons of gasoline. All liquids are corrosive, especially water. However, ethanol is less corrosive and compatible with more types of rubber, plastic, and metal than gasoline and aromatics. BTU values (energy content) are irrelevant when discussing internal combustion engines. Ethanol use does not affect the price of food.
If you are disseminating negative information about ethanol you are WRONG! I don't care who you are, where you went to school, or who you know; there are no negatives to using ethanol fuel. If you are in academia or employed in an industry that comes in contact with ethanol fuel, and you disagree with me, I will be happy to debate you in public at a forum of your choosing.
@@TheAutoChannel Do you own any carburated small engines?!?!?!?!?!?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@mattbroussard7409 Yes, I do. Do you?
@@mattbroussard7409 Yes, I do. Do you? And if you do, why do you know so little about theses issues?
vegetable oil are best for volvos
Swedish engines are designed to run on biofuels, such as old Volvos and Saabs.
Volvos make good scrap metal.
Or any older diesel really ^^ you can pour vegetable oil into old Ford Tractors and they will happily work with it. Been there done that. Same goes for old Mercs and so on. Only downside, is that it's smells like fries as soon as you start it xD
Ammageddon89
It’s always too thick to work in the injectors of anything built in the past 60 years at least. Add a simple pre heater and presto bango. It thins up nicely and smells like French fries!
You answer questions that I never knew I had.
This is awesome.
Thanks you guys so much for all the amazing content!
E85 is for the boosties
Everything you nee to know to get up to speed on TVR
It would just be ten minutes of gran turismo 3 menu music.
Congrats, took a while, but you got it!
Thank you Wheel house for being informative, funny and conscious at the same time. Too little of that in the car world!
Hey Nolan I think the evolution of tires over time would be a cool wheelhouse episode. Love the show!
Ethanol is use "pure", no gasoline added on Brazil as fuel for cars
Dude ! In Dubai Fuel is Cheaper than the Water !
But if you born as a woman you could not drive.. Only now they made it legal.
No, it's not that cheap
@@411nightnheaven it was legal a long time back, dubai is not as strict as the other Arab countries
@@joeljijiolassayil3602 yup in Saudi Arabia it was illegal. Have a nice day/night/what ever. 🙃
but dubai sucks donkey cocks...so who cares?
Very informative, I love your videos.
Awesome mazda dude ! I love the aero pack !
I think we should switch over to biogasoline. this way use gear heads can still have our big strong piston engines and we can be carbon neutral. as Jay Leno said the internal combustion engine is great the problem is the fuel.
Takes a lot of space to grow. Brazil cuts down large areas of forest for those fields
Every fuel is a problem when it runs out
We should be using hydrogen fuel cells/electric cars to power all city vehicles. Gasoline cars for fun/weekend cars & diesel cars for road trips long distance traveling.
You're saying every person should own three cars?
Manufacturing also tends to be bad for the environment.
@@DarxusC
Yee.
@@DarxusC No, every person should own a PHEV that can independently propel itself using both a decently sized battery for city use (50 miles is enough for most people, but have several sizes to choose from), and a combustion engine that can be used reliably for long distance travel, as well as a backup in case the battery or motor fails.
"Fun" cars are obviously for more wealthy people, but if it's just one car you'd own, and you want it to be dependable and have freedom of use, it should be a PHEV.
Chaos Reigns Renting isn’t an option for occasional use?
Diesel is not used for road trips, diesel is used to TOW heavy trailers. There is a reason trains and trucks run on diesel
I always love the background music on these wheelhouse vids lol
Can i just say that Nolan makes me so happy i don’t watch Donut Media vids if he isn’t in it? I love the whole crew but Nolan is so genuine i can tell he’s a wonderful human
"Pure ethanol engines don't exist outside the racetrack"
We use it in Brazil since 1978, dude
My friend , 1856 ...Romania (Ploiesti city) change the oil history , world first oil well, world first oil rafinery, world first sell on extern markets oil,Bucharest was first city in the world iluminate with oil ...
This, Science Garage, and UTS get me through the week
Hey Nolan, I love this video! But, can you make a Wheelhouse episode on how the first gas stations popped up. It would also give us an idea of how electric charging stations might spread all over the world and become an important part of the infrastructure of our cities.
0:42 including Vodka if you have an Ural
I’ve come so close to buying a Ural each season.
@@EliasTheHunter you better to buy a KRAZ ? because its like smi-invincible even in siberiya KRAZ's still running
Ethanol production does NOT cause food prices to rise. If anything, it actually makes food cheaper.
The corn used in the fermentation process is field corn, and is grown primarily for livestock. Humans are not physically capable of digesting this type of corn. In simplest terms, Ethanol is basically moonshine. During the fermentation process, the yeasts consume the carbohydrates, starches and other sugars in the corn, leaving behind everything else in the mash (such as protein, vitamins, fats, etc). This mash is then dried and enriched with a syrup (another by-product) and then resold to farmers as a cheap, high-protein, nutritious feed for livestock that is also low in carbs and starches (which are actually bad for the animals). In total, less than 20% (by weight) of corn is consumed by ethanol production. However, this consumption is offset by the fact that DDGs (industry acronym for Dried, Distiller's Grains) are better for livestock, allowing them to grow more and faster than they would with straight corn (ask any body builder why they consume extra protein, instead of carbs).
There are many other benefits to using ethanol but I'm just going to stick with what was covered in the video.
Donut..Pure ethanol engines exist outside racetracks..Just look here in brazil.We use hydrous ethanol made from sugar cane since 70's.the first car to be offered was the Fiat 147 in 1978.Nowdays ALL NEW vehicles are flex fuel,they can run on gasoline or ethanol in any proportion.The prices oscilates more but it is alot cheaper than gasoline.The downside is the fact that sugar cane ethanol has naturally water in its composition,making it harder to burn.To resolve that ethanol engines have higher compression(and power) but bigger fuel consumption compared to gas engines..Not mentioning the nightmare to start a carburated ethanol engine in a cold day BUT the smell coming from the exhaust is better than anything else!.
after this, WheelHouse on alternative fuel / energy source sounds like a good idea
Nolan be laying the pipe and drilling all day long.
hashbrowns for hamster that made me laugh lmao
He'll drill to 69 feet
4:51 Say that to the french government.
They are raising the taxes on diesel fuel as much as they possibly can. And our country is probably the first diesel user in the world, more than half of our cars have diesel engines...
Well that's what you get for voting for the establishment candidate. Should have voted for Le Pen
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Not sure it would've been better.
Here in Brazil more than 80% of the cars run ethanol, here almost all national cars are bi fuel from factory (we call it "flex fuel") they can run on petrol, ethanol or a mix between these two
This one was really interesting 👌💡
Several mentions about pollution, yet our air is vastly cleaner than it was just a couple decades ago despite more cars and many more miles driven. If you are older than 30, you can see the differences tech has made in internal combustion engines.
Shhh! If you aren't flailing around in a panic screaming about pollution, they'll come for you!
cleaner /= clean, we simply bought ourselves some time.
You'll get them really mad if you mention than none of the climate disaster predictions have ever come true.
I mean this is true bc of several laws and restrictions that were put in place in the US during the 70s and 80s, but the thing is the year to year improvement in air quality has basically come to a standstill in major population centers in the US. Along with the fact that massively populated countries like China and India don't have as strict regulations on their pollution output. While it's fine and dandy to say we're doing better than we were 30 years ago, the US is doing better in terms of localized air pollution, but climate change is still a large looming problem for everyone regardless of where you live bc actual pollution affects the entire global population.
Most of these yuppie brats don't know about the scrubbers installed in coal-burning plants, or the fact that most pollution is coming from Asia.
Notification gang
Chino Ismywife gang gang!
Do an "UP TO SPEED" on *LEXUS* in general
or on a certain model like the GS for example!
✌
It has tons of joules per L. As well oil is almost completely renewable , most countries have enough reserves to completely sustain themselves for 100s of years.
Where's my dad?
35 views, 90 likes. Congrats, RUclips....
Shout out to Oil City, PA and all the beautiful surrounding areas in the Allegheny National Forest!
You can run a diesel engine on pure vegetable oil or filtered waste veg oil. Just has to be pre warmed before injection pump for easier starting and better performance. Runs great in my TDI in the summer months.
Just change fuel filter regularly and she's smooth sailing.
Love the videos. However you make it seem like gas and pollution are a big issue. I'm here to tell everyone that climate change is not a lie but pointing at gas powered vehicles and calling them the cause is untrue. It may have been true back in the late 70s before extreme pollution control measures were introduced. Fact is, since that era pollution from cars has declined to a point where (in 2016) they were not causing any more damage to the environment. As a matter of fact, new cars have so little pollution that the climate has and should be able to reverse, while we still use gasoline. The truth is that Nitrogen and other chemicals from raising cattle account for more than 75% of global warming. Nitrogen also is just over 9x worse than CO2, and would show much greater results (10 yrs vs 100yrs for complete climate reversal) watch Cowspiracy, it will give a good understanding to this issue. I understand that as responsible car and motorcycle enthusiasts we must be seen as responsible. However, as long as your not rolling coal or running used motor oil in diesels your car or bike is not the issue. Not saying we all should become vegetarians, but we should really try to limit or cut out red meat from our diets (its not even all that healthy) and eat more white meats and veggies. Also, several people have analyzed electric power (something governments should have done before the Paris accords) and they concluded that if we made every gas station a charging station our power grid could never live up to the task. Even if it could, there wouldn't be enough power around to actually support modern day industries. Electric cars are cool, but they really should not be thought of as a viable replacement for oil.
Diesel is the past, and diesel will be the future, too, in my opinion.
Unfortunately diesels have been all but killed off by emissions standards in the USA. Owned a modern diesel lately? Completely unreliable junk. Nothing but problems surrounding the complex emissions sytems.
A lot of European cities no longer allow you to drive diesels in them.
Electric and solar is the way forward i guess. The petroleum guzzlers have to stop for the sake of environment at some point
@@prateekpathak5343 nah fuck that!
I will use gasoline as long as i can
@@prateekpathak5343 You need to keep in mind that making batteries for the cars and other parts also polutes, which is probably why we don't all drive eletric cars by now.... That and the fact that they take a lot of time to charge and don't last too long (for longs trips I mean). Also an important fact on eletric cars is that they don't sound as good as gasoline engines
Excellent video
The cut to the nuclear power plant with the implication that it’s a polluting power source is funny. That’s steam coming out of those stacks.
why are you Americans still calling a liquid gas???????????
and get your dates right
It's short for gasoline.
because gasoline takes longer to say than just gas
Craig Anderson why do you call it petrol when petroleum is unrefined that can be turned into a dozen different products including gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, kerosene etc. and actually gasoline has a low vapor point so it’s the vapors or *gas* of gasoline that burns.
Petrol is short for petroleum, gas is short for gasoline.
Because the fossil fuel lobbying industry. Done.
Joe Gioia no
Hey Nolan, can you bring up the topic about green electricity for electro cars vs battery utilisation/recycling the chemicals?
Cool vid. Cheers from one MS3 owner to another.
SATAN IS LORD
The only comment ive seen so far that makes sense
Gasoline Is NOT changing our Climate... all credibility you may have had has evaporated... unsub and bye
Later loser! 👋
It's changing the environment, just not as fast as certain progressive 'scientists' claim.
k bai
This channel makes itself an enemy of car enthusiasts sometimes. We don't want to hear anti gasoline propaganda, we want to hear rotary engines.
Kudos on the speed3. Is that you daily Nolan?
Great comments, love cars in a resposable way.
Just for curious fact: here (Brazil) we use Ethanol as sort of biofuel since the 70s. The reasoning is that Gasoline is too expensive and Ethanol was an affordable alternative. Nowadays we have bi-fuel engines that can run a mix of Gasoline and Ethanol at any rate. Also, we also have the option to use Natural Gas (GNV) in cars as well, although it's more common to see those on cabs, as you need to install a cilinder inside the trunk to store the gas.
One thing you missed was the energy density of gasoline. It's power to weight ratio is unmatched to electric batteries and other power sources. That and it's ease of transport via pipeline, rail or truck
In the UK some petrol stations only offer really high octane ratings, and it is really annoying. It's like Regular 91, Extra 94 and Supreme 97. Most cheap cars will run just fine on 87, so why don't they only offer high octane ratings. I have also heard it's the same in some other European countries.
It's crazy how influential Drake was, yet how small the city is. His well is located in Titusville Pa, yet there isn't even an interstate that runs through that town.
I was watching this in a cafeteria, and almost did a spit take when he said "never the less, he persisted."
I won't put anything less than e85 in my Focus. This video also reminded me I need more E85.
Is Nolan driving a speed 3? :o ~! good pick
Should do an episode of science garage explaining diffrent octane ratings and thier diffrences
Nice T-shirt Nolan 💪🏼😎
Fantastic
Great Vid. Dig the shirt. Rep those Dodgers. 👍🏼
I thought you guys upload 1 hour earlier usually
Can tell was SEMa week, pretty short fast video, still enjoyed it though
Here in Canada (Alberta to be more precise) we have massive oil reserves but we are paying $1.20/litre. Access does not necessarily mean cheaper, politics plays a huge role in fuel prices.
Nice.
Work on a oilrig for a living. Its honestly pretty amazing how the industry has evolved from just dropping a pointed piece of iron on the ground over and over..to modern day multimillion dollar rigs and being able to drill a little over 4-5 miles with a horizontal curve.
Yo! My boy Nolan drives a MS3. I can respect that.
In Brazil, there was ethanol-only cars, mostly they had different pistons.
Audi has a brilliant new idea called e-diesel. would love to see a video about it so more people can become aware of its potential
This video was sponsered by G-Fuel. It has enough lead to make you run 35 miles per gallon.
Good video. You guys should've inclided biogas thou. It could replace all gasoline and diesel engines that are used today. Cows produce biogas in large quantities all the time and we know how to store it. In my opinion everybody should put some time into research this cause it really could solve most of the pollution in gas motors, and in that way make more un-ecofriendly motors at the same time possible to use in all around cleaner way.
Here in Brazil in the early 70' they produced the sugar cane ethanol and then pure ethanol engines were produced as a cheaper way to consume fuel , and It worked the pure sugar-cane ethanol cars were faster and they payed less price in fuel than Gasoline and diesel (actually i own one of those cars today ;-) ) Sorry for the bad english still learning.
MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT THE HONDA CR-X AND THE CR-Z!!!!!!!!!!
What about the Quant E sportlimousine? It s sportscar that ran on Salt water, it was road legal in 2014
It's basically battery powered. Salt plus special paper plus zinc . It acts as a battery, once it's used up it's used up. You need to replace the zinc.
You should do a video on the history of Mercury
Nice car only reason i will subscribe.
Beat at 3:50?
I love Donut but its so annoying that they don't credit the music for some of those hot beats
As always the videos are fantastic, But here in Brazil a lot of people have
laziness or difficulty to read subtitles or do not understand English.
have you ever considered the idea of dubbing videos in Portuguese to reach a
larger audience?
please let me know if I can help you guys in any way to make the videos more
accessible to all brasilian folks.
Sick Mazda3 Nolan I got one too!!
Hey Nolan, be cool to take you on the tour of Drake's Well and hit done great mountain road driving after.
FYI the kerosene use was pioneered by a Pole, Jan Ignacy Łukaszewski who invented the kerosene lamp and perfected crude oil refining.
Lots people where i live modify their cars and trucks to use propane. Its like half the cost of gas and it seems most cars and trucks get 20-30mpg with propane
Ah, lol. 5:05, 5:09 - that's where RedPilotSun got his idea for the "Biodiesel fuel" video.
Hey Donut Media!
Uh you should do a follow up video to this one showing how carbon neutral fuels (like Audi's Isooctane) can bridge the gap as an interim energy source until battery (or super capacitors or what have you) energy densities can exist on parity or better than liquid fuels (though this may not even be a possibility chemically speaking- we don't know yet). Look up theoretical high energy density battery chemistries, it's fascinating to read about.
I also wanted to point out that you can make fully synthetic carbon neutral Diesel with a variety of isomers of Nonane and Decane. With ICE technologies on the horizon like Cargine's (Koeniggsegg, also known as qamfree) Camless Pneumatic Valvetrain, ever increasingly thermally efficient combustion cycles (cough, Mazda, Toyota, etc) and the Advent of designer alternative CN fuels.. light hybridization.. the future of the piston engine is not at all bleak! And I welcome advanced EV tech! I love EVs! But since they are only viable to a select few night now, I think pushing the envelope with engine and fuel design is the best move.
Like for mentioning biodiesel. Consider SVO too.