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Fruit’s aren’t just good for you they are also great for your car. Brazilian scientists have found a way to make plastic from fruit fibers – bananas, pineapples, coconut shells etc — that is stronger and lighter than plastic that comes from petroleum.
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Saudi Arabia’s Producing More Oil To Make Up For Libya’s Shortfall
- by Ami Cholia
Unrest in Libya has caused a global panic about oil, and Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, is stepping up and increasing its production of oil to meet global demand. Unfortunately, even that may not be enough.
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Spain Lowers Its Speed Limits To Offset Rising Oil Prices
- by Ami Cholia
As unrest in Libya continues, Spain has said it will lower highway speed limits, reduce train ticket prices and use more biofuel, as part of an emergency fuel-saving initiative to offset increasing gas prices caused by turmoil in Libya.
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Mr. Peanut Is Nutty For The Environment
- by Ami Cholia
If Oscar Meyer has the Wienermobile, than clearly Mr. Peanut needs a ride of his own! Fittingly then, Planters has decided to give the ‘nut’ a Nutmobile. Mind you, this isn’t a typical car either — based on a 2011 Isuzu NPR truck, the Nutmobile is also entirely environmentally-friendly.
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Japanese inventor Akinori Ito has created a machine that can turn plastic bags into fuel.
Read more »Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are using algae from a wastewater treatment plant to produce biodiesel. They say the algae found here not only consume pathogens in the water, they can even be used to produce biofuel.
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Considering most U.S’s coal plants are over 40-50 years, we might be seeing several of them closing down by the end of the decade, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said.
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Obama To Cut Clean-Diesel, Fuel-Cell Funding; More Love For Electric Cars
- by Ami Cholia
President Obama is clearly a fan of electricity. As part of his effort to cut the federal budget, President Obama has proposed axing $80 million from clean-diesel engine research and hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles research.
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You may love or hate the messenger, but if the latest news coming out of WikiLeaks is accurate, we may have to reconsider our oil choices much sooner than we first thought.
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While electric cars are being touted as the automotive solution to gas guzzling cars, researchers in Sweden may have found another answer: air hybrid automobiles that could cut your fuel consumption by half, by using the energy generated from braking.
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