I love this! Always there is a way around idiots trying to make it harder for people to just live.
“Enterprising mechanics convert autos because Israeli sanctions have choked off gasoline supply. “We are under siege,” says Ali Awad, 48, an automobile mechanic who is especially adept at a certain procedure ideally suited to the strapped circumstances that nowadays prevail in the Gaza Strip, where punitive sanctions imposed by Israel have crippled an already stumbling economy. “We have to survive. We cannot just go out and steal.” “As far as I’m concerned, the residents of Gaza can walk,” Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said last month, “and they will not get gasoline because they have a murderous, terrorist regime that does not allow the residents of southern Israel to live in peace.” As a result, almost all of Gaza’s 1.5 million inhabitants should probably have blisters on their feet by now from so much walking. But they have been at least partly spared that particular hardship, thanks in no small measure to mechanics like Awad, men who have mastered the trick of converting cars to run on a pressurized and flammable concoction that still manages to find its way into Gaza, albeit in diminished quantities. It is called cooking gas. For 1,000 shekels – about $275 – Awad can convert an automobile to operate on a combustible source of energy better known for its role in the preparation of dinner. He does an average of one conversion a day. The job takes about eight hours to complete and involves running a fuel line from the trunk or back seat to the engine, where a specially designed pump is installed near the radiator. When the job is done, the vehicle’s operator can choose to burn conventional gasoline or the cooking stuff by flicking a switch on the dashboard.” – Source