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CO2 and Carbon Footprint

Recently, Jane Garvey, presenter on BBC Five Live s Drive Show, commented that in America, ordinary people look at the driver of a big flash car and think to themselves Wow! I wish that were me , whilst over here, increasingly they are thinking What a prat!


Maybe Ms Garvey was exaggerating but it is certainly true that UK attitudes are changing and that people are becoming more aware of the need to reduce greenhouse gases. This, combined with road charging measures that will penalise cars with big engines and high CO2 emissions, means the rules are changing for fleet buyers.


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Alternative Fuel - Biodiesel Making In-Roads

The use of the fuel known as biodiesel is growing in America–quite literally. Biodiesel is produced by combining organic oils, from any of a number of sources, with alcohol or petroleum diesel fuel. The organic oil is most often obtained from soybeans, but many other plants have shown potential, including canola and rapeseed.


Biodiesel can even be made at home. In fact, Biodiesel America tells its members that they can make biodiesel for as little as 50 cents a gallon using recycled cooking oil, assuming the oil if free. That may seem unrealistic, but there are many vehicles on the road today that use biodiesel fuel based on free oil from restaurants. Since restaurants generally have to pay to dispose of

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their used grease, they’re often willing to give it to a vehicle owner who wants to take it off their hands. Otherwise, they often have to pay as much as $150 per 50-gallon drum to have used grease hauled away.


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Benefits of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs)

Are you considering converting your current hybrid into a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle but you re wondering what the benefits are?


After all, being environmentally friendly is nice, but you should get some more benefits than just saving the planet, right?


Fortunately, there are a lot of benefits that will help you actually save money, not just the planet.


1) Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) can get 100 mpg.


That s right, if you re going to use your PHEV for trips like your daily commute and you ll be driving it less than 50 miles per day, you can get your gas mileage up over 100mpg. For long road trips, it will be less, but since most

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people take short trips on a day to day basis, you ll be consuming very little gasoline. Some days your gas engine may not even need to turn on at all which means no gas consumption at all.


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Alternative Fuel

The rapid growth of technological development and technical innovations attract more and more people to use vehicles. Nowadays vehicles are necessity rather than luxury. Therefore pollution due vehicle fuels has become one of the severest problems in big cities. Several alternative fuels have been developed for recent years.


Fuel cells are complicated appliances that generate electricity using hydrogen gas. This technology increases the efficiency of energy and uses less fuel, thus better economy, and produces fewer emissions thus cutting down on the production of pollutants like carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons. The economic feasibility of this type of vehicles is obscured by the unavailability of free hydrogen and the difficulty in the storage and the distribution of the

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gas. Fuel cell powered vehicles are about twice as efficient as the internal combustion engines and thus are economically superior.


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GM Asks Congress To Increase Alternative Fuel Research Fund

General Motors Corp. called on Congress to increase the fund allocated to support the automotive industry s efforts to speed the implementation of advanced technologies. The call is anchored on discovering and promoting alternative fuel to wean the nation from dependence on foreign oil.


The call is also triggered by the need to improve efficiency of the vehicles. This need necessitates billions of dollars. This could also force the automaker to produce smaller and lighter cars or make hybrid counterparts of the production models. Eventually, GM is expected to drop some of its inefficient market segments and models.


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