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Ford tips can help you increase fuel economyReliable Plant Magazine, OK - Mar 13, 2006… and braking can lower your gas mileage significantly. … precious fuel resources while saving money, it's also … ECOnomical because it saves money and ECOlogical …

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Are you tempted to buy a high octane gasoline for your car because you want to improve its performance? If so, take note: the recommended gasoline for most cars is regular octane. In fact, in most cases, using a higher octane gasoline than your owner’s manual recommends offers absolutely no benefit. It won’t make your car perform better, go faster, get better mileage or run cleaner. Your best bet: listen to your owner’s manual.

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You could save $300-$700 in fuel costs each year by choosing the most fuel-efficient vehicle in a particular class. This can add up to thousands over a vehicle’s lifetime. Fuel-efficient models come in all shapes and sizes, so you need not sacrifice utility or size. – Help Reducing The Dependence On Foreign Oil Buying a more fuel-efficient vehicle can help reducing our dependence on foreign oil. More than half of the oil used to produce the gasoline you put in your tank is imported. The United States uses about 20 million barrels of oil per day, two-thirds of which is used for transportation. Petroleum imports cost us about $3 billion a week—that’s money that could be used to fuel our own economy.

- Protect the Environment

Burning fossil fuels such as gasoline and diesel adds greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide (CO2), to the Earth’s atmosphere. Large-scale increases in greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere can lead to global climate change. Vehicles with lower fuel economy burn more fuel, creating more CO2. Your vehicle creates about 20 pounds of CO2 (170 cu. ft.) per gallon of gasoline it consumes. Therefore, you can reduce your contribution to global climate change by choosing a vehicle with higher fuel economy.

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. is pumping millions of dollars into a marketing push and offering a fresh round of incentives to generate momentum for sales of sport utility vehicles with hybrid engines, as demand for the vehicles shows signs of fatigue.

Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Geneva Motor ShowWe’re still not done with our Geneva Motor Show
coverage, as obscure vehicles keep flowing up through the cracks even over a week since the show concluded. We
learned about the BlueCar over at GreenCarCongress, which has followed the
progress of this electric vehicle since it debuted as a concept at last year’s Geneva show. This year
a running prototype was on display and the company had specs on hand. The BlueCar has a range of 155 miles, a top speed
of 78 mph, accelerates to 60 kmh (37 mph) in 6.3 seconds and takes six hours to recharge fully. Described
as a “concept-car designed around a battery”, the Bolloré Group plans to build six more prototypes
and construct a production site capable of producing 10,000 battery systems a year. The BlueCar, if produced, would
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consortium of automakers and fuel suppliers launched the Alliance for Synthetic Fuels in Europe (ASFE) Tuesday to carry
forward their vision of sustainable mobility in Europe.The objectives of ASFE are to investigate and promote
synthetic fuels as part of the solution for reducing dependence on oil, as well as a way to reduce vehicle emissions and
increase energy efficiency. ASFE defines synthetic fuels as a new generation of near-zero sulfur and
aromatics fuels made from natural gas (gas-to-liquid, or GTL), coal (CTL) or biomass (BTL). GTL is a practical solution
today, with a number of plants under construction. BTL is still in the R&D stage. Although GTL fuels have a similar
greenhouse gas impact to petroleum fuels, BTL offers the potential for a 90 percent reduction in greenhouse gas
emissions.Synthetic fuels are attractive because they are completely compatible with existing diesel
engines and fuel distribution infrastructure. ASFE is apparently touting synthetic fuels as Europe’s solution to
reducing its petroleum dependency, in contrast to the U.S. government’s promotion of ethanol.Members of the
ASFE are DaimlerChrysler, Renault, Shell, Sasol Chevron and Volkswagen. [Source: Renault]Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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