These days, gasoline prices may be crimping your your household budget. You may like to reduce the U.S. dollars that flow to the Middle East for oil, or perhaps you are motivated by your concern for the environment, or even the nagging reality that oil is a depleting resource that shouldn’t be wasted. Fuel economy To put it into prospective,…
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Why You Should Fuel Your Generator With Natural Gas
For those people who have invested or thinking about investing in a power generator for back-up power needs, extra electrical needs, or portable electrical needs, a big consideration should be the type of fuel that is used. There are many sources of fuel for providing electrical energy from the generator including gasoline, natural gas, diesel, solar, wind, and a few…
Increasing Your Gas Mileage
Ever-increasing gas prices have led many people to try just about anything to increase the gas mileage of their vehicles. Print ads and TV infomercials hawking products “guaranteed” to increase your mileage by 20%, 30% or more abound. Do these products really work? Is there anything that can be done to increase the gas mileage of your car? Is it…
Just What Are Thee Flexi Fuel Logos I Am Seeing On Brand New Cars
You may have well noticed logos on new cars and trucks of “Flexifuel” or “Flexi-fuel”. You may have well wondered what this innovation is. Is something to increase fuel efficiency? Is it a means of being able to use regular gasoline instead of high premium test? The automobile industry has a well deserved record of relaunching and repackaging old products…
Diesel Versus Spark Engine Ignition
As you may already be aware of, diesel engines are more efficient than gasoline engines of the same power, resulting in much lower fuel usage. For an efficient turbo diesel, the average is 40% more miles per gallon. The higher compression ratio with diesel engines help to raise efficiency, but diesel fuel also contains around 15% more energy per unit…
Crop Fed Cars Hit The Highways
A popular new fuel, E85, could help put the brakes on America’s foreign-oil dependency. The Department of Energy provides these answers to some frequently asked questions about the fuel: Q: What is E85 and what are its benefits? A: E85 is a fuel that is 85 percent ethanol (distilled from American corn, as well as nongrain crops) and only 15…
Advantages Of Diesel Engines
If you’ve owned a diesel powered vehicle in the past or if you own one now, you no doubt appreciate the qualities this engine provides you with. More torque, better fuel economy, and easier maintenance are but a few of the attributes of owning diesel powered vehicles. However, there are some motorists that still complain about the engine’s weak power,…
Are You Looking For Great Roi On Your Fuel Dime
he rising cost of fuel is a great concern to people across the United States from all walks of life. In fact, the prices these days are even concerning those who have never really given it another thought in days not so long gone by. Some of us are hoping for a little more return on our fuel investment though…
Why People Use Diesel
With diesel engines, the compression ratio is higher and there is more power. From a technical point, the compression ratio of an engine is the comparison of the total volume of the cylinder at the bottom of the piston’s stroke divided by the volume of the cylinder remaining at the top of the stroke. Gasoline ratios Serious damage to gas…
Diesel Fuel Quality Is A Question Not A Guarantee
Diesel engine designs striving to increase engine performance have made great advancements in engine fuel delivery to the combustion chamber. Today’s diesel engine is quieter, smoother, and more powerful. But today’s diesel engine owners are overlooking one important factor. The quality of today’s diesel fuel has not advanced at the same rate as the engine improvements. Diesel fuel begins to…