Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
Discovery’s Future Car TV Show Talks Fuel
The Discovery channel is 3/4 of the way through their four part series on the car of the future, appropriately called Future Car. The most recent episode was about fuel and hit on everything from ethanol, bio-diesel, hydrogen and solar all the way to having a car powered by air. A few of the finer [...]
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Thursday, December 7th, 2006
A Plea to Our Nation’s Leaders: Get Us Off Foreign Oil!
Tonight I was visited by someone from the Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana, and it inspired me to make the following plea to our nation’s leaders: To our Leaders at all levels, It’s time to get serious about Renewable Energy. This country has made some good steps, but it’s time for more serious action. We [...]
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
5 Simple Things to Save the World
It can be overwhelming to want to save the world. I know… I’ve been there. Not everyone has the time, energy, or especially the money to get onboard the Renewable Energy Train. Even if you are not yet able to install solar in your home/business or get that cool diesel car so you can have [...]
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Friday, July 7th, 2006
Biodiesel May Be Catching On
As I travel around the Midwest doing yo-yo shows, I have been seeing more and more evidence that biodiesel is entering the public consciousness. In the style of the old (like 1950s era) Burma Shave ads, I have started seeing biodiesel ads. These are in the same style as the ones that you have probably [...]
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Sunday, June 25th, 2006
Biodiesel Co-op Starts Up in Madison WI
A group of ten forward-thinking Madisonians have turned the former Car Care Clinic at 1894 E. Washington Ave into PrairieFire BioFuels Cooperative. If all goes well they will be selling 100% biodiesel from a real, honest-to-goodness pump on E. Washington Ave. by the end of the summer. At the moment all fuel sales are done [...]
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Monday, June 5th, 2006
Jessica Alba Loves Biodiesel
Jessica Alba was just on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno to plug her new movie: The Fantastic Four 2. Right at the end of the interview she mentioned that she is really into alternative fuels, and she tried to convince Jay to run his diesel vehicles on biodiesel. He was thoroughly unimpressed. Nice try [...]
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
Willie Nelson is into Biodiesel… who knew?
Not only is Willie Nelson into Biodiesel, but he has an entire webiste and business devoted to it. One of their selling points is that biodiesel is fuel that is a fully renewable enrgy source, it is grown right here in America, and it supports our farmers. I think this is a great way of [...]
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
Anything Into Oil… Even Turkey Guts
I have to admit that I was skeptical when I first heard about people running their cars on french fry grease. Run your car on a waste product, and have it smell good at the same time? Too good to be true. Now though, it seems that quite a few people are actually doing it. [...]
