Dependency on Fossil Fuel – Why the Auto Industry is Kicking the Addiction to Oil

sg — Wed, 19 May 2010 03:35:55 +0000

The worldwide auto industry loves fossil fuel. It has been addicted to oil since the first Model T rolled off of the assembly line. The internal combustion energy thrives on fossil fuel – gasoline, diesel. But there’s a problem. The main suppliers of oil to feed the auto industry’s addiction keeps raising the price, and the supplies of oil are being depleted. There IS a bottom; an end. The world will eventually run out of oil. Of course, we can’t put all of the world’s oil consumption habit on the shoulders of just the automobile industry. If every automobile in the United States was a hybrid by the year 2025, we’d still be importing as much oil ...

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Dependency on Fossil Fuel – Why the Auto Industry is Kicking the Addiction to Oil

Types of Green Vehicles

sg — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:58:51 +0000

Green vehicles refer to vehicles with low or no emission of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. The different types of green vehicles are mostly ones that use alternative energy sources either wholly or partly instead of the fossil fuel. Alternative energy refers to non-petroleum products such as electricity, alcohol, biodiesel, hydrogen, liquefied natural gas and petroleum gas, liquids made from coal and compressed natural gas. There are electric vehicles that mostly use less fuel. They are considered to be more efficient in comparison to fuel-cell powered vehicles. However, fuel-cell powered vehicles are more popular since they consume less petrol making them cheaper to manage. They emit less carbon dioxide in to the air as compared to ...

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Types of Green Vehicles

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Dependency on Fossil Fuel – Why the Auto Industry is Kicking the Addiction to Oil

Types of Green Vehicles