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Most of you will never experience how effective some products were.

submitted by Laputois to whatever 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 08:53:28 ago (+38/-0)     (whatever)

Years ago it was possible to purchase electrical contact cleaner with solvents, VOC's that were freon based not the weak sauce Isopropal alcohol propellant they have been forced to sell today. I was able to submerge parts into ultrasonic cleaners full of liquid freon. Glues that worked wonderfully that would get you high, 55 gallon drums of Methyl ethyl keytone, solvents that would melt plastic and destroy your liver. Spray paints that looked like melted plastic after you applied them , providing a hardshell protective surface. Gasoline without alcohol added to it. You could get amphetimines from any middle aged woman's medicine cabinet, or any doctor by just complaining that you did not seem to have enough energy. It was a glorious time to be alive.


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[ - ] HeyJames 3 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 09:04:05 ago (+3/-0)

The world peaked in 1975

[ - ] Mopar_or_nocar24 3 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 11:20:08 ago (+3/-0)

1933 for some people imo

[ - ] Reawakened 6 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 09:30:12 ago (+6/-0)

Gasoline without alcohol added to it.

https://www.buyrealgas.com/states.html

I still buy real gas for my small engines.

[ - ] throwawayaccount 9 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 10:49:57 ago (+9/-0)

There's a better site than this one for this. https://www.pure-gas.org/
Has far more locations. Most of the local places I go to for mine aren't on your source and I've heard the same from other people I've sent it to.

I put ethanol free in everything I have.

[ - ] observation1 1 point 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 13:01:35 ago (+1/-0)

How can you afford it? It's a gillion dollars everywhere I've seen it

[ - ] throwawayaccount 1 point 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 15:50:31 ago (+1/-0)*

I already live in a state with an absurdly high fuel tax so ethanol free is not that much more compared to ethanol. At least not by %.
Currently, ethanol free for me is 5.85/gal while regular is 5.10. It's not even 15% more expensive but increases my fuel mileage more than 15% and I save funds in the long run by my vehicles lasting longer.

I also bought and ride a bike for almost everything now so I'm averaging 65mpg.

Edit: Just for fun, I decided to math it out using my car. I drive a 2001 Crown Victoria that averages 20mpg on a 20 gallon fuel tank. Giving me an approx maximum drive distance of 400 miles. At $5.10/gal, a full fill up is $102. If you divide the $102 by 400 miles that gives you a cost per mile of $0.255
With ethanol free fuel my mileage goes up to 24mpg. Same 20 gallon tank gives me approx 480 miles. At a cost of $5.85/gal, a full fill up is $117. Same as before, divide fuel price by miles driven $117/480 and I have a fuel cost of $0.243 per mile.
The difference is 1.2 cents per mile or .012 dollars.
Say you drive on average 8,000 miles in a year (personally, I drive far more in a year), 8000*.012 = $96 saved. Plus, again, less wear on mechanical parts.

What would be interesting to see is whether the discrepancy gets better or worse the higher mpg your car gets on ethanol free. Because maybe I only benefit from driving a lower mpg vehicle while higher mpg vehicles might be spending more money.

[ - ] observation1 0 points 2.7 yearsAug 5, 2022 01:30:53 ago (+0/-0)

Interesting.

I'll 3x check my gas stations to see what I can find.

[ - ] Reawakened 0 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 10:51:53 ago (+0/-0)

I think I've used that one too. Thanks.

[ - ] WhiteCollarCriminal 7 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 09:43:36 ago (+7/-0)

Ain't that the truth! I remember things in my Dad's basement that I'd kill my brother to have today. Lead based enamel paint that would last thirty years and look great doing it! Yep, those politicians have really improved our lives!

[ - ] QuestionEverything 5 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 10:46:48 ago (+6/-1)

Except the lead broke down and seeped into the environment.. You have more AND better options today. Electroplate, exotic paints, luminous and electrical paints, plastic overcoats, etc..

[ - ] ruck_feddit 5 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 13:34:52 ago (+5/-0)

Not better options for the money.

[ - ] AugustineOfHippo2 -1 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 09:55:21 ago (+2/-3)

I understand the sentiment, but your biggest complaint is that it's more difficult to get high nowadays? WTF?!

[ - ] Laputois [op] 3 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 10:01:33 ago (+3/-0)

It was more a statement on the VOC's present that have been eliminated by law. Evaporative solvents would alow the glue to dry and bond quickly and form a molecular bond that was superior.

[ - ] AryanPrime -3 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 15:00:45 ago (+0/-3)

mhmmm

And make it easy for degenerate kike lovers to get high

We can bring the VOC's back if we deport all the non whites, the kikes, and the hopeless Whites like you that just want to sit around and get high 24/7/365

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer 3 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 11:57:42 ago (+3/-0)

And food! Real cream, sugar, meat, etc that are now replaced with weird chemicals and slurries of HFCS, soy, and bugs.

[ - ] Laputois [op] 3 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 12:52:00 ago (+3/-0)

All of the "gums" added to ice cream and cottage cheese. Some of the ice creams will not melt. You can avoid them by buying higher quality alternatives, for more money of course.

[ - ] deleted 4 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 12:26:09 ago (+4/-0)

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[ - ] diggernicks -1 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 20:55:42 ago (+0/-1)

gen z/millenial niglets fail at existence

Calling everyone older than you boomer is reddit mentality

[ - ] AryanPrime -2 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 14:58:28 ago (+2/-4)

drug addict fawning over more kike degeneracy being promoted to him

People like you are fucking weak and pathetic

faggot drug addicted boomers need to gtfo of our country

[ - ] Crackinjokes 2 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 15:39:31 ago (+2/-0)

Ahhh. Real actifede cold medicine.

Cleared your head

[ - ] xachariah 1 point 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 16:01:27 ago (+1/-0)

Real allergy medicine as well. It actually worked, as opposed to modern ones which are all of a fart in the wind.

[ - ] Crackinjokes 4 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 15:41:51 ago (+4/-0)

I remember breyers ice cream that was simply

"cream, sugar,vanilla beans"

Or Progresso soups that were ACTUALLY thick with content and not "thickeners"

[ - ] GoldenAgeWhen 0 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 19:53:01 ago (+0/-0)

Blue bunny vanilla bean has that, i guess milk too.

[ - ] AngryWhiteKeyboardWarrior 0 points 2.7 yearsAug 5, 2022 06:48:27 ago (+0/-0)

That's still my fave vanilla ice cream. Sadly haven't had access to any Breyers ice cream at all for a very long time.

[ - ] con77 4 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 15:50:31 ago (+4/-0)

coke w/ cocaine in it!

[ - ] Feelsgood 0 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 17:24:44 ago (+0/-0)

Round-up that did not need to be reapplied every year.

[ - ] DukeCanon 1 point 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 18:38:33 ago (+1/-0)

A fucking gas can that was simple and held gas.

[ - ] DukeCanon 2 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 18:38:53 ago (+2/-0)

A fucking gas can that was simple and held gas.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer 0 points 2.7 yearsAug 5, 2022 02:19:07 ago (+0/-0)

They make replacement kits. Even find them on Amazon for relatively cheap. Got one for my gas can and I only had to drill on small hole and pop off the old snout and replace it.

[ - ] ArnoBreker -2 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 18:53:13 ago (+0/-2)

So you're saying you're a junky. Got it.

[ - ] Anus_Expander 0 points 2.7 yearsAug 4, 2022 20:32:36 ago (+0/-0)

Appliances made before 2000 lasted forever

[ - ] deleted 0 points 2.7 yearsAug 5, 2022 01:07:34 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] PotatoWhisperer 1 point 2.7 yearsAug 5, 2022 02:21:34 ago (+1/-0)

They banned Ipecac? WTF, that's an emergency medicine for anyone/animal that ate something they shouldn't've.

[ - ] Laputois [op] 0 points 2.7 yearsAug 5, 2022 15:20:06 ago (+0/-0)*

It was also a great aid in bartending. Have an obnoxious ass bothering you or the patrons? Give them one on the house, they'll drive the porcelain bus for awhile and be so weak that you can whisk them outside easily.

[ - ] AngryWhiteKeyboardWarrior 0 points 2.7 yearsAug 5, 2022 06:52:01 ago (+0/-0)

Look at all of the rabbis coming out of the woodwork to focus on OPs one little throwaway line about glue getting you high.

"Don't listen to OP, goyim, he's a junkie... Things are much better now. Don't remember the nice things we took from you."

[ - ] Breeder 0 points 2.7 yearsAug 5, 2022 19:31:42 ago (+0/-0)

I watched my ex's mom spiral into psychosis after being prescribed 60mg of Adderall XRs because she "needed more energy".