By JamesW on Sep 19, 2008 in Auto, Blog, Environment, Featured | 0 Comments
In a bold move, especially for a battered company in a bruised economy, GM has aggressively developed a prototype car that, for all effective purposes, run entirely on electricity. It uses a 400-lb lithium-ion battery, an energy source that is silent and emission-free.
The big difference from other “hybrid” cars such as the “Prius”, is that [...]
By JamesW on Aug 13, 2008 in Auto | 0 Comments
A Kansas man drives a 1983 Lincoln Towncar – forever! The odometer just turned over 1,300,000 miles. He loves his car, and who can blame him; it gets about 22 mpg on the highway, and it has never broken down. That car doesn’t owe him a dime, thats for sure.
Now, lets talk about “planned obsolecence“. [...]
By JamesW on Aug 12, 2008 in Auto, Environment | 1 Comment
How much gasoline could US citizens save by driving around in light-weight hybrid vehicles? Up to half what they currently use, say scientists at MIT.
The US consumes about 140 billion gallons of gasoline each year. A team of researchers led by John Heywood has completed a five-year assessment of what can be done to slash [...]
By JamesW on Aug 8, 2008 in Environment, Featured, World | 1 Comment
Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. plans to sell its company-owned gas stations, saying they aren’t profitable enough even with gasoline selling at $4 per gallon.
The 2,220 stations make up about 1/5 of the Exxon and Mobil stations in the United States. The nation’s largest oil company, which earned nearly $41 billion last year, says [...]
By JamesW on Aug 7, 2008 in Environment, Featured, Is it Real? | 0 Comments
Zero Pollution Motors (ZPM) expects to produce the world’s first air-powered car for
the United States by late 2009 or early 2010, and better yet, it is expected to be for sale for less than $18k. One of the planned Air Car models, reaches 68 mph, and goes for a range of [...]
By JamesW on Jun 5, 2008 in Environment, Featured | 8 Comments
Forget corn! There’s fuel, there’s renewable fuel, and then there’s user-renewable fuel! What can be better than air?
The Compressed Air Car developed by Motor Development International (MDI) Founder Guy Negre might be the best thing to have happened to the motor engine in years.
The $12,700 CityCAT, one of the planned Air Car [...]
By MaxW on Apr 17, 2008 in Featured, Rants & Raves, World | 0 Comments
During a recent trip I made a shocking discovery; I pulled into a gas station next to the freeway, got out and almost put my credit card into the pump before I realized that they where charging a premium for using a credit card.
I stood there for about a minute trying to figure out why [...]
By JamesW on Apr 2, 2008 in Featured, Rants & Raves, World | 0 Comments
BioFuel Now Competes Directly with Worlds Food Supply
Are you wondering why your grocery dollars aren’t stretching quite as far? In Mexico City, a barely publicized riot, called “The Tortilla Riots”, break out in protest of escalating corn prices (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6319093.stm) and sharply rising flour prices destabilize Pakistan. In Sudan, a grocer that supplies the countries needy [...]