Alternative and renewable fuels: There is life after cheap gas!
Some environmentalists believe that if you invest in and develop alternative replacement fuels (e.g., ethanol, methanol, natural gas, etc.) innovation and investment with respect to the development of...
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The Greeks are going broke…slowly! The Russians are bipolar with respect to Ukraine! Rudy Giuliani has asked the columnist Ann Landers (she was once a distant relative of the author) about the meaning...
View ArticleE85: Can it break through as an alternative fuel?
President Harry S. Truman once said, “A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.” Over the past few weeks, my...
View ArticleThe flex-fuel Dodge Charger shows you can be both green and cool
Aaron Walsh’s first car was a 2008 Chrysler Sebring flex-fuel, meaning it could take E85 or any other ethanol blend. It was a good car. But his new car … wow. The 2012 Dodge Charger, in Tungsten...
View ArticleFuel choice lost
Picture this. You’re driving down the road and you notice your tank is almost empty — time to fill up. You pull into a fueling station and see the price of gasoline has gone up quite a bit since the...
View ArticleDrive a Volt and you’ll never go back
14 dollars and 81 cents. That’s how much I’ve spent on gasoline since I leased a 2016 Chevy Volt near the end of November. To be fair, I’ve also had to spend money on electric fuel as well, but that...
View ArticleWhat are flex-fuel vehicles?
There are 19 million flex-fuel vehicles on the road in the United States, including 1 million in California alone. We’re going to venture out on a limb and guess that the vast majority of people who...
View ArticleU.S. Navy leads the charge to break our oil dependence
Of the $1.3 billion the federal government spends fueling its hundreds of thousands vehicles each year, the vast majority — 78 percent — is spent on gasoline. But if the Navy has its way, it may not be...
View ArticleA glossary for energy-independence alphabet soup
In our quest for energy independence, we’ve run across quite a few different terms with abbreviations. So many, in fact, sometimes it’s hard to keep track. That’s why we’ve decided to organize them all...
View ArticleAutomakers shouldn’t stop at electrification
It seems like every week another major automaker announces it will “electrify” its vehicle lineup. In just the past few months, Mercedez-Benz, Ford, Audi, Maserati, Jaguar Land Rover, BMW, Lincoln,...
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