Sick of rising fuel costs. Here are three great ideas to cut those costs.
Fuel prices suck! With prices spiking over $1. 70/litre, it’s getting out of control. Well like YOU we’ve had enough. We researched three simple measures you can take to help reduce your fuel bill. . .
1. Use the internet to find Cheap Fuel
A handy web tool for locating cheap fuel is motormouth. com. au; a simple to use, free website dedicated to finding cheap fuel in your area.
MotorMouth is designed to save you time and money, making it even easier to find the cheapest fuel in your area!
You can search for the best fuel price in your area, or register to receive free fuel price email alerts.
MotorMouth currently reports fuel prices in Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth only.
The search function is very simple to use and the tests I performed found some marked price variations which helped me in reducing my weekly fuel bill.
Similar sites for the US and Canada is gasbuddy. com and gaspricewatch. com.
2. Car share
There are a growing number of car share services popping up, particularly in city areas. These services enable you to book a car inexpensively for a few hours at a time. The costs of maintenance and insurance are covered in the fees you pay, and if you don’t use your car a lot you can save a lot of money. Some services also include the cost of fuel in the booking fee, further reducing your costs.
Here are some great sites we checked out for you: • GoGet: Sydney and Melbourne • Charter Drive: Sydney • Gwiz CarShare: Brisbane• Nexus Car Share: Perth• Needaride: Post your request or offer on this site to link up with others that are offering/looking for a lift. • Thecarpool: This free site puts people in contact with others who want to save money by sharing their travelling costs
3. Use Alternative Fuels
Water for Gas.
Is it possible to run your car on water? Absolutely, only you need to extract the energy out of water to make it work and you do that with a home built hydrogen gas generator.
Water has a lot of energy in it and your goal is to extract that energy without spending more on electricity than what you can get out of the thing. By simple electrolysis, you can separate the water molecules into their core elements of hydrogen and oxygen and create a burnable gas known as HHO, or Brown’s gas.
I decided to test out this theory and bought the Water4Gas system. Using these very simple instructions I built a hydrogen generator and installed it in my Ford.
The technology is safe and reliable and I did not have to modify my car’s engine or computer in any way. The hydrogen generator installs quickly and should you want to remove it, you can do so with no evidence of it ever having been there.
I have been running this system for over 3 months now and I am getting 35-40% increases in fuel mileage and I have had no engine problems what so ever.
This is well worth looking into if YOU want to stick it to the Gas Companies and save some of your well earned cash.
Fuel Star Combustion Catalyst
Fuelstar combustion catalysts have been used with great success since 1992 in over 30 counties.
A combustion catalyst improves combustion, giving a more complete fuel burn. This leads to improved engine efficiency, resulting in better fuel economy, reduced emissions, improved engine performance and cleaner internal engine operating surfaces.
This is a great option if you don’t want to play around making hydrogen generators. The system comes complete and is as easy to install as a fuel filter.
Many reports indicate a fuel savings of 12% to 18%, however I have not tested this one out as yet.
So, the fuel price surge doesn’t look like it will be letting-up anytime soon, and for most of us, there’s little we can do to avoid paying astronomical prices. However, hopefully these tips will assist in easing the price rises and, with any luck, also help cut the cost of your next journey. . .
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The Clean Fuel Society
January 5th, 2010It isn’t clear where current energy trends are going. Perhaps they may stabilize or as more and more people suggest the days of the carbon fuel fuel economy are quickly being done away with. Without CO2 based propulsion, researchers, businessmen, and engineers are on the look out for the next universal fuel. This fuel will be the first fuel in the age of the “clean fuel. ” Clean fuel refers to a non CO2 based fuel, which is renewable. The problem so far is that a universal fuel has yet to be found. Here are some of the possibilities: 1. Solar 2. Wind 3. Electric 4. Air 5. Hydrogen Solar Cars have long been the source of hope for green energy enthusiasts, mainly because the fuel is. . . free. The problem is that an efficient prototype available for mass markets has yet to be fully developed. There are some universities and other engineers working on workable solar car prototypes, but these prototypes have been relegated to the sphere of university projects despite the advances. Wind energy may not seem to be a good propulsion system for a car, but it is however a great source of primary energy to infuse the electric grid with. Wind Energy is a solid clean energy instead of carbon derived fuel, which is juicing up the grid now. This will truly move us into a purely clean fuel society. Electric Cars are not only a reality, but they are beginning to take the world by storm. Starting with Tesla and now others are beginning to jump on the band wagon. The sticking points in preventing mass consumption of electric cars have been a proper infrastructure to support the integration of electric stations and other support. This has begun to change recently as more and more smaller countries have begun to lay the foundations for turning over their carbon infrastructure to an electric one. Air Cars are another burgeoning possibility that has become very real in the last few years. They essentially work off of compressed air. The is released slowly, whose energy puts pressure on the pistons to propel the car. Air Cars are almost ready for the consumer market and when they are, they are assured of success. Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Cars have been around for a while, yet their technology has gotten to the point where they’re actually ready for the consumer market. Fuel-Cells are essentially a combination between an engine and a battery. Hydrogen is converted into energy using ions in the fuel cell. The energy is then used to power the vehicle. As with other clean fuels, hydrogen has a way to go since it lacks an infrastructure for refueling. Despite this, countries have been pushing forward with incentives and plans to build hydrogen stations. California has already done this as well as other areas of the world. Its not clear yet which clean fuel will be accepted as universal. Perhaps there won’t be a clear universal clean fuel, but rather a serious of choices built around regional and geographical situations.
An Overview Off Alternative Fuels
January 5th, 2010Alternative fuels may seem like a new topic or new invention but in reality companies, organizations and individuals have been researching and developing new ways to power vehicles. In fact, regular gasoline has contained ethanol for some years now and many countries around the global are mandating minimum ethanol requirements. For example, Canada, the United States, Britain, Argentina and Brazil all require a certain percentage of ethanol to gasoline. And as time passes, each couple of years, the minimum increases.
So what are alternative fuels and how do they differ from fossil fuels such as gasoline, kerosene and diesel? These fuels have limited life spans in the sense that when all the oil supply is depleted fossil fuels will no longer exist. Contrarily, alternative fuels are sustainable resources made from various biodegradable substances such as sugar cane, wheat, and corn. Alternative fuels are normally produced from food sources, waste food products, plants and other organisms that can be replenished and continue to grow.
The most prominent alternative fuels in the automotive gasoline market are ethanol and biodiesel. In Canada and the US, ethanol, an alcohol, is typically made with corn or wheat. It is then mixed with gasoline to create a cleaner burning fuel. But the problem still lies with the gasoline portion. As long as gas can be produced, things are fine. But as soon as gas shortages begin, it will be necessary to turn to other fuels. Further, gas is harmful to the environment and to people due to the pollution and the smog. Again new, friendlier technologies are needed. Lastly, with the current state of the economy, gas prices are very high leading consumers to wonder whether better methods of fueling vehicles are available.
Countries who are enforcing minimum mixes of ethanol and gas are ranging from two percent to five percent to ten percent. Experts claim that fifteen to twenty percent of ethanol is the largest amount that can be mixed without having to physically change the mechanisms of present day vehicles. But there are already cars being manufactured that can take as much as eighty-five percent ethanol. The biggest problem is the starting of a vehicle. Apparently, using gas as an igniter is very easy but ethanol is more difficult.
Many areas are also trying to find alternative sources of ethanol than the standard sugar cane, wheat and corn based products. Mesquite, different sweet grasses, vegetable oil, palm oil, soybean oil, recycled cooking oil, and animal fat run-offs are all being researched. In addition to these fuels, other alternative fuels already exist and have been sold for years. Many taxi fleets and delivery trucks use propane as opposed to gas and there are also electric cars.
In the US, in 2003, the president allocated just over one billion dollars to the development of hydrogen powered vehicles, particularly lightweight cars, SUVs and small pickup trucks. And while the process is agreeably very slow, it is estimated that by 2020, there could be as many as two million hydrogen fueled vehicles on the road.
Conversationally, alternative fuels are also known by other names including bio fuels, biodiesel, agro-fuels, green gas, bio energy, and non-conventional fuels.
