The boys beg to ride the bus, which Patricia Israel of Atlanta says is fine with her. She sees it as environmentally sound transportation that reduces traffic on streets and at the school.It also saves money on gas for her sport-utility vehicle. "We're looking at getting a hybrid," Israel says. "Every time I fill up the gas tank, it's like $75."
Gasoline prices at the pump have dipped about 20 cents a gallon in the past two weeks. So what’s up?
With one squinting, cynical eye: I would like to believe that the descendants of Sam Walton, recently posting Wal-Mart’s first quarterly profit decline in 10 years (businessweek.com), are holding the oil giants at gun point and demanding their profit back.
A reader comments:
I'm excited to hear about the next generation hybrids with improved batteries (my rechargeable lithium-ion battery in my camera is amazing) and plug-in charging (how neat would it be to hook it up to a solar panel for clean, free juice). Not to get political, but it's a crying shame to blow over 300 billion in Iraq when we could have pumped that money into research and development of improved battery, solar, wind, alternate fuel, etc., technology here at home.
The Harley-Davidson Softtail Deluxe President Bush was revving this past Wednesday at the Harley-Davidson plant in Springettsbury Township probably gets about 42-50 mpg. (2006 figure) with it's 1584 cc twin-V air-cooled engine. The Harley-Davidson site doesn't list mileage for a 2007 model yet.
I just rolled over 30,000 miles on my 2005 Civic Hybrid, and here is my report on repairs:
I changed the oil, and then I changed the oil, and then I changed the oil.
Oh, they updated the firmware, but that was free.
When I first purchased the car, I endured battery horror speculation by friends,
“And how much is that battery pack?�... (of course I know) “uh huh�...�you just wait!�
Using a process called Catalytic Depolymerization, Green Power Inc. a company from Issaquah, Washington can transform everyday landfill waste into diesel fuel.
Oil giant BP has indefinitely shut down the nation's biggest oilfield after finding a pipeline leak, removing about 8 percent of U.S. oil production. (AP)
Miles of pipes in the largest oil field in the United States are corroded and it will take months to make repairs. Tests found losses of 70 to 81 percent in the 3/8-inch thickness of the pipe wall, the company said. After a major spill in March along the same network of pipes, the Department of Transportation ordered inspections with a device not used to inspect the pipes since 1992 because BP, at the time, determined the pipes too sludgy to test.
It’s no revelation, when you turn on the A/C in your car the gas consumption goes down. According to Jim Francfort at the Idaho National Laboratory , "The hybrids we tested got 15 to 27 percent lower fuel economy with the air conditioning on.�
General Motors is planning a fall 2007 debut of it’s “dual mode� hybrid version of the 2007 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra full-size pickup trucks.http://
