How should I get to DEFCON this year?

[splynt0r]

Is your car Gas or Diesel?
If it is Diesel, Buy vegetable oil and use that instead of Diesel , believe me it will save you a sh*tload of moula 

[Tachyon]

Don't pay for it, mooch it off McDicks.

[splynt0r]

Don't pay for it, mooch it off McDicks.

It won't work, It's way too impure , if you put that stuff in your tank you can forget your car starting until you've cleaned the whole system.
Unless you mean asking if you can get a 8 gallon bottle of fresh, unused stuff, that would work. 

[Tachyon]

I saw it on Mythbusters, you have to strain it first.

[splynt0r]

I saw it on Mythbusters, you have to strain it first.

Yeah, that takes a long time and you've got to be careful to strain it all and not get any bits in it.
And if you have time to strain that much oil, well, great money saver, if you don't, just buy some.
 
(Plus it may be illegal in some states for tax reasons.)

[murd0c]

This isn't Europe, and almost none of our passenger cars are diesel powered (save for a couple Volkswagons and mid-to-late 1980's high end Mercedes-Benz's). So the vegatable oil thing is out, besides, Vegatable oil costs about $2.50 a gallon any fucking way.

[M-26-7]

Yeah, but you can get those Mercs hella cheap now, and they're reliable too.

[rbcp]

This isn't Europe, and almost none of our passenger cars are diesel powered (save for a couple Volkswagons and mid-to-late 1980's high end Mercedes-Benz's). So the vegatable oil thing is out, besides, Vegatable oil costs about $2.50 a gallon any fucking way.

There's diesel cars everywhere around here.  Bunch of hippies in this town.

[mr_doc]

If you get 35 mpg, say gas costs... $2.30.  1350 miles to Vegas / 35 mpg x $2.30 = $88 each way, not counting food and if you decide to spend the night somewhere.  This does not include the riding you'd be doing to get to LA and San Fran.

Gas is >$3.00 in LA

[I-baLL]

New vegetable oil is expensive. Used vegetable oil is cheap.

I know you said that you don't want to fly but you might still want to try this:

Buy a round trip ticket to LA with a stop-over in Vegas. Get to Vegas. Miss your flight to LA. Have them rebook you for free for an LA-bound flight that leaves after Defcon. Get on it. Enjoy yourself. Thenm, whem you're done, you can use the return-part of your round-trip ticket to get back. In theory you shouldn't be charged any extra for any of this.

[M-26-7]

New vegetable oil is expensive. Used vegetable oil is cheap.

I know you said that you don't want to fly but you might still want to try this:

Buy a round trip ticket to LA with a stop-over in Vegas. Get to Vegas. Miss your flight to LA. Have them rebook you for free for an LA-bound flight that leaves after Defcon. Get on it. Enjoy yourself. Thenm, whem you're done, you can use the return-part of your round-trip ticket to get back. In theory you shouldn't be charged any extra for any of this.

I think you missed the part where he was asking how to get to DEFCON.
Plus airlines are stoogy bastards.

[gangals]

How 'bout this, you steal used oil from McDicks, sell it to some hippies, then raise enough dough to hire a chauffeur.

I was about to crack the joke:

I raise dough by selling yeast.

[I-baLL]

New vegetable oil is expensive. Used vegetable oil is cheap.

I know you said that you don't want to fly but you might still want to try this:

Buy a round trip ticket to LA with a stop-over in Vegas. Get to Vegas. Miss your flight to LA. Have them rebook you for free for an LA-bound flight that leaves after Defcon. Get on it. Enjoy yourself. Thenm, whem you're done, you can use the return-part of your round-trip ticket to get back. In theory you shouldn't be charged any extra for any of this.

I think you missed the part where he was asking how to get to DEFCON.
Plus airlines are stoogy bastards.

Uh, what? Defcon is in[/b] Vegas. So thus, by telling him how to get to Defcon/Vegas and Los Angeles on one round-trip ticket, I'm telling him about what's a good way to get to both. This, if I remember correctly, was the initial inquiry.

[M-26-7]

Have them rebook you for free for an LA-bound flight that leaves after Defcon.

How is that going to get him to DEFCON on time?

[I-baLL]

Have them rebook you for free for an LA-bound flight that leaves after Defcon.

How is that going to get him to DEFCON on time?

Okay, did you actually read my post?

What I said right before that sentence was:

Buy a round trip ticket to LA with a stop-over in Vegas. Get to Vegas. Miss your flight to LA.

Do you understand now how he's going to get to DEFCON on time?