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Old 04-08-2006, 10:08 PM
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I'm concerned about the rapidly rising cost of gasoline. Its getting very out of hand in some places. The world just can't support itself on fossil fuels much longer.

I've heard that major car companies are pushing to get their cars hybridized and many are working like crazy to get the hydrogen fuel cell car ready for the market.

It's probably up to us as consumers to keep the heat on many companies so that they will come through with these alternative fuel sources in practical ways.
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Old 05-08-2006, 05:20 PM
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I was watching television last night and saw a report on a new kind of vehicle called the flex fuel car. It can use either gas or ethanol. You get to choose which type of fuel to use depending on the price of the car. Isn't that cool?
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Old 06-27-2006, 06:16 PM
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Alot of hype

Hi

I have been around the block and seen many changes with our gas and oil businesses.
I have found that everytime we go through a decade, we have controversy over these two products.
First, we had the best of products on the market, with pure oil and leaded gas. Back then our vehicles ran better and we had less issue with cost and emmission problems.
Then it was switch to unleaded and a weaker based oil. Here is where it started, by companies charging more for something that ment less to us and our vehicles. Inlation and greed in corporate structured companies, creating a false belief, that we accepted as truth. This also gave car manufactures the opportunity to change the way they sold new cars, unleaded fuel only cars. Which really did not matter, because I have a old car that ran on leaded fuel and still runs well on unleaded. Gimmicks or facts are what we should look at.
Moving on, we graduated to more hype on emmissions and switching gradually to Deisel and propane powered vehicles. Again creating a weaker working product for our cars, more inflation and higher prices for less performance.
Now corporate companies are finding ways to change the way we think, work and drive our lives in to their future of more changes in the types of fuel and oils we use.
We still start with pure, solid, reliable products, which we had in the beginning. Then they go through refinning the products making them less effective for our vehicles, old or new. This creates the vehicle to perform worse and costly in repairs, causing us to rely on mechanics to fix the problems we now have with our cars, esspecially the newer ones( being more and more depenent on electronical components). Making it more difficult to do the work ourselves and it is not easy to finding someone with the real knowledge on how to fix these new problems for our cars.
Here in Canada we grow, produce and engineer a variaty of ways to save our money and test the vehicles response to them, some work and some do not. That now we are forced to look at what do we do to protect ourselves and our 2nd most important investment, the vehicle.
The bottom line for me, is greed has brought this upon us, not the lack of gas or oil, but how they choose to change things to get more money out of us and get more vehicles sold to benifit them not us.
This was a real burden to me and others that can/could not afford to make the changes they demand are important to our enviroment and futures.
By investigating these things and the truths behind the motives to getting more out of us. I came across a petroleum based product that has helped me to save money in both reairs and gas consumpstion. I have literally saved 3 thousand dollars in just one year of using the products. Every 3rd tank of gas is free for me and I have not had to take my car to a mechanic for annoying repairs that were not even the required, other then my oil changes.
If you would like more information on this new product contact me.
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Old 02-28-2007, 01:10 PM
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I'm concerned about the rapidly rising cost of gasoline. Its getting very out of hand in some places. The world just can't support itself on fossil fuels much longer.
yeah, it's crazy, just now i saw a topic here talking about electric cars, perhaps these are the cars of the future to combat rising prices of gasoline
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