fuel

I left ProgressiveU in March due to a disagreement over the handling of certain issues beyond my control (and it had nothing to do with my maturity level). Since then, I've been really bored. You have no idea what it's like to have nothing to do on the internet (seeing as you're reading this post). I have, however, never quit reading blogs posted on ProU.  Read More »

Instead of going to war over the world’s current oil crisis, Sweden has decided to be proactive and become an oil-free nation by the year 2020. 2020 is only twelve years away. You may think that it would be impossible to make an entire country independent of oil in a mere span of twelve years, but Sweden is dead set on working to meet this goal.  Read More »

Since today's the 92nd running of the Indy 500 in my home town I felt this would be appropriate.  Read More »

Oil prices!

They are through the roof right now. Trading at 126.98 at the close of the day. Everyone has an opinion on it, and it's mostly that pumping gas has become a wallet-raping menace and must be stopped. Everyone's got ideas. Like  Read More »

It took a law to put seatbelts in cars. It took a law to make people use those seatbelts. It took a law to get fuel-efficiency to the point that it is. Why shouldn’t the government pass another law to require fuel-efficiency to be even higher?  Read More »

Well, my friend and I recently did some research on alternative fuel sources, and look what we found! I was amazied that more research had not been done on using biodiesel as a source of fuel. Here are some facts:

• Algae is the fastest growing plant in the world.

•Algae consumes 75% of the CO2 absorbed by plants

• Algae is not food; it will not raise food prices.  Read More »

With the present war and rapidly fluctuating gas prices, it’s important for the United States Government to assess and recognize the need for alternate energy sources that will not cause any more damage to the environment and will also create independence for the United States from their addiction to oil and therefore unhealthy political relations with oil-supplying countries.  Read More »

So I thought I'd put together a little series on what is currently considered "alternative fuels," that is, fuels from renewable resources that are being developed with the intention of replacing petroleum. Everyone knows about the hybrid and electric cars, but what about hydrogen, water, biodiesel, or ethanol fuels? The idea here will be to gather information about the lesser-known fuel alternatives and relay them here. The first fuel showcased in this series will be biodiesel.  Read More »