Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for July 05, 2010

Somehow, I feel a pun looming.

Must be running on Jim Beam.

That’s why the headlights were beaming?

It’s not Running On Empty.

Hmm,how would the county mountie change the car with DUI?

Depends on what the breathalizer reads.

How do you use a breathalyzer on a car?

Same way you do on a human: sample the exhaust.

I’ve seen drag race cars that ran on alcohol. You had to pour it in by the barrel full!

I bet the head lights are bloodshot.

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And the alcohol, made from corn, seems to take more petroleum to make than it replaces, not to mention the food prices it ruins.

My old Dad said they used to get back to San Diego from Tijuana sometimes by putting the rest of the tequila in the tank…

Once again…..all you commentors make this even funnier…thanks

BigChief, you have to remember that a lot of those dragsters have engines displacing around 1,000 cubic inches compared to around maybe 250 CI for a modern six cylinder. Takes a whole heap of alcohol to keep this huge engines running.

Tex…1000 cubic inches? Nope, more like 500. But alcohol has roughly half the energy of gasoline, so it takes twice as much. Thats why you get much worse mileage with E85.

Irv has a box of Moon Pies, wheres the RC Cola?

The RC Cola is in the fridge!

Oh, and as to the alcohol in the gas… I had a ‘74International pickup that ran better on 10% than on regular….

Nitromethane isn’t exactly “alcohol”, or tequila, and weaving on the track at close to 300 mph is ALMOST as dangerous as a teenager driving while texting. At least the dragster has a parachute?

My Sunbeam Alpine runs on crushed juniper berries….

Mixed with Bombay English gin of course…..

RadioTom, where’s the fridge?

You sample my exhaust you will get mostly methane.