I did an emissions test and the fuel filler cap was leaking. Can this cause you to lose fuel?
No it can not. The leaking they are referring to with your fuel cap is air leaking out of it. All modern return style fuel systems are pressurized for emissions purposes. A leaking cap will reduce fuel [...]
What if starting in say, 2009 they re-vamp the Gas Guzzler tax. For every person that buys a low gas milage vehicle, for instance, 20 mpg and below they are charged a $2000 fee to the EPA. (If your gonna spend $40,000 on a vanity vehicle you should pay it anyway) Then the EPA would [...]
I am creating my own biodiesel fuel and then i must measure the carbon dioxide emission. Does anyone have any idea?
Sure, take a look here for a description:
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem99/chem99082.htm
Isn’t it possible to reduce automobile pollution (i.e., "emissions") without increasing fuel efficiency? And if so, shouldn’t discussions (and political agendas) focused around fuel economy be considered misleading?
Put another way, are we confusing discussions over oil independence (an important discussion on its own) with discussions over global warming?
No, it’s not possible. Not when [...]
Having the opportunity as an American to travel abroad often, there are some REAL responses that are practical in dealing with the current fuel shortage in North America. For example, there are several European vehicles - full size - family sedans that get over 50 miles per gallon. These are typically diesel motors [...]
We’ve already had a reel mower and a cordless Black & Decker electric, but neither did the job. The reel mower always left blades of grass/weeds sticking up all over the yard. The electric barely cut our small yard on one charge the first year and didn’t get through half of the front [...]
I just don’t get this guy. The whole idea behind fuel cell vehicles was a zero emission vehicle with the range of a gasoline car. Yet Obama in another one of his grand schemes killed the federal funding for it. Honda and BMW build fuel cell cars. They don’t pollute, and [...]
We can put a man on the moon, send a misson to mars, was this real or a fake TV episode set up by our USA government?
So if we can do that here on earth why can we not figure out how to burn wood & trash to power our electic power plants [...]
We can put a man on the moon, send a misson to mars, was this real or a fake TV episode set up by our USA government?
So if we can do that here on earth why can we not figure out how to burn wood & trash to power our electic power plants [...]
This article claims that is exactly what happened.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071701557.html
If true it is sad that politicians not scientists are dictating certain truths.
The Bush administration has been very active in suppression of science (far more so than any US administration in history (in the past suppression of science was sporadic but under the Shrub it’s very systematic)).
There’s also [...]
