Over 120 MPG!!!!

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

This car is a diesel that is apparently going to be sold or is being sold in Europe.  Its called the Loremo which stands for low resistance mobile.  Seems it doesn’t meet US safety standards but it gets well over 120 MPG.  Can you image in that? Now imagine if you did it on biodiesel… [...]

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Prius gets over 100mpg!!!

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Wow, this is cool. This guy modified his Prius to carry more batteries and has thereby increased his  mileage by a great deal.  Video quality is poor here but he states that this project is relatively easy to do.  Don’t know about you but if I had a Prius I would be working on this [...]

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Fuel up for around $0.80 a gallon…

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Just to be fair, I have talked some about biodiesel but am just starting to get into CNG cars.  These are cars that run on Compressed Natural Gas, like the stuff you run your stove on but compressed into a high pressure tank.  Anyway, this is another way to help protect, or not hurt, our [...]

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Gas prices too high?

Monday, September 1st, 2008

I too have been hit by high gas prices but not near as hard as many of you. For the past few years we have made our own fuel. Yep , that’s right our own. Biodiesel to be specific. Biodiesel is made from used cooking oil and at a cost from $.50 to $1.50 a [...]

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