Ten Ways to Cut Fuel Costs- Ask The Fuel Expert
Remember the good old days…about a year and a half ago? Prices at the pumps were hovering below one dollar per litre and they stayed the same for weeks. Well the good old days are gone forever and today we live in a world where fuel prices seem to go up by the hour. Now [...]
As gas prices rise, consumers face increased threat of oil dependency
WASHINGTON (August 11, 2009)— Rising gas prices, combined with the economic downturn are making people more vulnerable to changes in oil prices, according to new analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council. The report also shows that many states are taking significant steps to reduce oil dependence through smart clean-transportation policies. “Especially with today’s economic [...]
10 most Fuel-Efficient SUVs in the US
When people think of fuel-inefficiency, the vehicles that most of the time comes to mind are the big SUVs. But not all SUVs deserve to be marked as fuel inefficient as you can read on a article publish by CarandDriver.com. People that buy SUVs are not only concerned with power, cargo capacity and off-road ability. [...]
UK Opens First Hydrogen Fuel Station
UK’s first hydrogen fuel station has opened at Birmingham University, despite a shortage of potential customers. The station is the first of 12 outlets planned to open nationwide by 2010 and will serve a campus fleet of five fuel-cell cars. It’s the first part of the infrastructure needed to support the far-off prospect of hydrogen-powered [...]
Synthetic methanol
Synthetic methanol – a green fuel? Synthetic methanol’s green credentials arise from its potential to be completely CO2 neutral. The most likely future mass-production of the fuel is by using electrochemical techniques to combine oxygen, hydrogen and carbon: • Carbon could be sourced from carbon dioxide recovered from the atmosphere using either large scale extraction [...]
5 Major Ways to Save Money on Gas
I know you just want to get to the meat of how to save money on gas, but let me just lecture for a moment. Petroleum products, including gas, are not going to become cheaper. One of the reasons for this is simply that they are limited and more and more people are competing for [...]
New Biofuel Technology
Press Release Body = February 21, 2007, Mahopac, NY, USA – V.O. Tech, LLC (www.VOTechUSA.com), is rolling out the first vegetable oil conversion system for diesel cars and trucks that takes the uncertainty and guesswork out of running these engines on the renewable fuels that they were originally designed to use.
Tips to improve mileage
So you got a new hybrid model and all your worries about the mileage issues are over ! Think a moment before you take out your Insight or Lexus hybrid out of your car shed. Fuel efficiency of a car is partly in your hands. To get the best out of an engine, you need [...]