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Category Archives: education
Reconditioning a Toyota Prius – Changing the CVT Transmission Fluid
If your Toyota Prius has a 100k miles or more, it’s time to change the CVT Transmission fluid. Toyota doesn’t recommend a service interval but after much research and discussion with Prius experts, I have decided to perform this … Continue reading
Posted in Automotive, education, Electric Vehicles, environment, hybrid vehicles
Tagged CVT, fluid change, oil change, Toyota Prius, Transmission
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How to Buy and Recondition a Toyota Prius
In September of 2011, I sold my wife’s Jetta TDI and started looking for a fuel efficient, sustainable vehicle for her to drive with an automatic transmission. I try to make sustainability an important part of all my life decisions … Continue reading
Posted in Automotive, education, Electric Vehicles, environment, hybrid vehicles
Tagged prius, recondition, sustainable car, toyota, used prius
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Great Sustainable Vehicles of the 20th Century
Over the past 40 years, there have been a few vehicle models that stand out as excellent examples of superior design and engineering. Typically, they are models at the peak of a certain engine design. What also makes these vehicles … Continue reading
Posted in Automotive, biodiesel, biofuel, education, environment, WVO/SVO
Tagged 20th Century, biodiesel, biofuel, diesel, sustainable vehicles
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Great Sustainable Vehicles – 1999-2003 VW TDI Diesel
Half way through the model year in 1999, Volkswagen introduced a new body style of their Jetta with an improved “ALH” TDI engine. When combined with the 5 speed manual transmission in any of the body styles, this drivetrain was … Continue reading
Posted in Automotive, biodiesel, biofuel, education, environment, WVO/SVO
Tagged biodiesel, diesel, tdi, Volkswagen, VW, WVO
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What Type of Fuel Should I Run in My Vehicle?
Are you considering buying a diesel vehicle for better fuel efficiency and potentially using biofuels? If you already know about the different diesel fuel types, here is a quick ranking from the easiest to the most complex fuel source. This … Continue reading
Posted in biofuel, education
Tagged alternative fuel, B100, B20, B5, biodiesel, diesel, one tank, renewable fuel, two tank, WVO
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Making Biodiesel!
I was contacted a few weeks back from a friend in the Biodiesel community about a great resource on the web for Everything Biodiesel. A while ago, this used to be a site known as the Collaborative Biodiesel Tutorial. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
Posted in biodiesel, biofuel, education
Tagged biodiesel, biofuel, independence, renewable
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Energy Security – Are We Ready?
Today, President Barack Obama spoke to students at Georgetown University to challenge the next generation to meet the challenge of reducing our dependence on foreign oil. He put forth a plan to reduce our daily import of foreign oil by … Continue reading
Is Methanol the Silver Bullet?
In our quest to find sources of energy to replace petroleum, it is hard not to look at other fossil-based resources that haven’t been over-utilized and are abundant in the United States and the Americas. Natural gas definitely fits the … Continue reading
Posted in education, Methanol, Natural Gas, Oil Addiction
Tagged biofuel, biofuels, diesel, dimethyl ether, efficiency, fuel efficiency, methanol, methanol economy, petroleum
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Voters Guide to Picking Candidates
Before you go to the voting booth this year, make sure you do a little research on the candidates and understand where they stand on reducing our dependence on petroleum. If asked, all candidates will answer, “I support reducing our … Continue reading
Posted in biodiesel, biofuel, education, Natural Gas, Oil Addiction, Opinion, Voters Guide
Tagged candidates, energy independence, oil addiction, petroleum addiction, vote, voters, voters guide, voting
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Will We Help Fund the 3rd Golden Age in Arabia?
Tonight, I watched the Imax movie, Arabia, at the Fernbank Museum and enjoyed the history lesson in the Two Golden Ages of Arabia. The first was led by the Nabataean culture and the natural resource that created their empire was … Continue reading
Posted in education, Movie Review, Oil Addiction
Tagged foreign oil, funding terrorism, middle east, money for oil
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