In April of this year the Secretary of Transportation (Mary E. Peters) proposed an interesting plan: She calls for an acceleration of last year’s Congress enacted CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards by a whopping 25%. For those...
Category - Biofuel
- alternative energy
- Biofuel
- electric cars
- ethanol
- fuels
- hybrid cars
- Sustainable Development
- transportation
Competition Encourages Forward Thinking
In 1978 gasoline was selling for .63 cents a gallon and forward thinkers had decided then to create an annual competition that would pit college and university teams against each other in design, construction, and endurance of open-wheel race cars. ...
When it comes to traditional oil-based gasoline, there is a factor to consider that often goes overlooked: Distribution. We like to envision biofuels (ethanol in particular) as a more readily abundant resource that will flow along the same rusty...
With the cost of crude oil soaring to record highs, it isn’t too surprising that much of the nation has found a recent resurgence in the premise and promise of biofuel. While it is difficult to argue against the development of any renewable...
These days, there’s always a dark cloud hanging above biofuels everytime they are mentioned in the news. After the world woke up to the fact that the biofuel rush was causing deforestation and taking food from the worlds’ poor’s...
