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Feds help start electric car era around Puget Sound
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WASHINGTON – A year from now, roughly 1,000 all-electric vehicles will be whispering around the Puget Sound are as part of a federally funded project that eventually might lead to an electric corridor stretching from Eugene, Ore., to Vancouver, B.C., where you could swipe your card and receive a 15-minute quick [...]
Why Ethanol–Not Electric Cars and Hybrids–Is the Answer
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Times are tough for the biofuel movement. Concerns have been rampant about how much gas it takes to produce a gallon of ethanol and about how much farmland and corn would be needed to produce enough fuel to make a dent in our gasoline addiction. Combine that with the popularity [...]
Bugs in the tank
photo credit: 10 Ninjas Steve
Fuel’s future is in designing, not refining
LAST month, your columnist raved about the new generation of lean, clean diesel cars arriving belatedly in America (“Diesel’s second coming”, April 4th 2008), but wondered where they might find their fuel. With oil pushing $120 a barrel, the diesel’s fuel-sipping charms—it delivers about [...]
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