Archive for the ‘Alternative Fuels’ Category

Are Biodiesel Fuel Vehicles the Answer to the Growing Environmental Problems?

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

After taking a couple of days off to talk about some other things, it's time to get back to reviewing cars that might be able to save the planet. Today I'm going to look at biodiesel fuel, which I think is one of the more interesting alternative fuels out there because ...

Are Ethanol Vehicles the Answer to the Growing Environmental Problems?

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007

When gas prices hit record highs last summer, most of the talk about possible cheap and renewable fuel sources seemed to surround ethanol, which a product of carbon based feed stock.  Currently, most of the world's ethanol comes from either corn or sugarcane. As a matter of fact, you're probably using a small ...

Are Fuel Cell Vehicles the Answer to the Growing Environmental Problems?

Monday, March 19th, 2007

In continuing my "series" on environmentally friendly cars of the future, today I will be taking a look at Fuel Cell vehicles.  Yesterday I wrote about Plug-in Hybrids, which seem to be an obvious short term answer to decreasing both our demand for oil as well as carbon emissions. The long ...

Are Plug-In Hybrids the Answer to The Growing Environmental Problems?

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

Over the next couple of days, I will be writing about the different types of vehicles that people believe could ultimately help slow or reverse global warming.  I'd like to go over the pros and cons of each of the vehicles and talk about how they might be able to ...

Who Killed the Electric Car?

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

Well, I guess I'm on a bit of an environmental kick the last couple of days.  Last night I watched An Inconvenient Truth which I followed up tonight by watching Who Killed the Electric Car?, a look at what happened to the electric cars produced in the late 1990s and ...