What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction.
A lot of concern has been expressed about ethanol. From the overuse of antibiotics to watering down Waxman-Markey in support of corn farmers, it is questionable as to whether ethanol is the solution America needs for its foreign oil dependency. Thomas R. Blakeslee of the Clearlight Foundation thinks we are better off using corn for [...]
Rolls Royce and British Airways cannot find 15,000 gallons of biofuels for intensive ground testing that meets volume, sustainability, and performance criteria. Due to lack of biofuels supply, the companies have suspended their testing program. Rolls Royce planned to test four alternative fuels on a RB211 engine taken from one of British Airway’s Boeing 747 [...]
People in Montana have been noticing some big rigs on their highways, really big rigs. Special trucks the size of a football field are carrying equipment cargo in “superloads” to the Canadian Tar Sands for oil extraction. The Billings Gazette reports on the massive size of the trucks: How big? One load that is coming [...]
I live in a very remote region of far Northern California. I have always dreamed of owning an electric car or plug-in hybrid, as we live off-the-grid with energy to spare to charge a car’s batteries. The problem is I do most of my driving on dirt roads, and four wheel drive is required at [...]
The British Queen Elizabeth II has two state Bentleys, which according to the US Department of Energy gets nine MPG in the city and uses 31.1 barrels of petroleum a year. These royal $15 million gas guzzlers are being converted to bio-ethanol. According to Jalopnik, the Queen is preempting Bentley’s move to biofuels: Queen Elizabeth [...]
Last week, Nick told you about the plastic surgeon who discovered he could use the fat from liposuctions to fuel his two SUVs. He’s not the first person to use human fat for biodiesel, as Team Earthrace used the captain’s liposuctioned fat to beat the world record for circumventing the Earth powered by biodiesel. Now, [...]
Editor’s Note: Jennifer Lance is the Editor over at Eco Child’s Play, another blog in the Green Options Network. Her daughter’s letter was originally posted over there and I thought readers here might find it as cool as I did. From my daughter’s very first Christmas, we’ve told her the truth about Santa. Regardless of [...]
