Car Maintenance : How to Improve MPG With Clean Fuel Injectors

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Delta sees 2011 profit rise; pares Q4 margin view
U.S. carrier Delta Air Lines Inc said it expects solid earnings growth in 2011, but its shares eased 1.4 percent as it pared its operating margin forecast for the current quarter, citing TransAtlantic softness.

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20-year license extension approved for Duane Arnold Energy Center
A 20-year license extension for the Duane Arnold Energy Center has been approved over objections from some Iowa environmental groups.

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Scheme ‘to double power bills’
THE Gillard government’s green power scheme will double the usual increase in Queensland power bills next year.

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Home Depot raises 2010 outlook on stronger sales
DC Portfolio news Home Depot raises 2010 outlook on stronger sales Special to the Daily Commercial Home Depot Inc. on Wed-nesday raised its fis …

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DEP Announces Small Business Advantage Grants to Help Improve Energy Efficiency, Reduce Pollution, Lower Operating Costs
HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — State investments are helping Pennsylvania small-business owners continue to lower their operating costs by conserving energy and reducing pollution, Department of Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger said today.

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Pulstar Pulse Plugs Save Gas – Improve Performance

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Ford finds EcoDriving can improve fuel economy by 24% on avg

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10 Reasons Why You Must Improve the Environmental Performance of Your Business

1. You are wasting money

Between 2006 and 2008 I carried out simple half-day environmental health checks in 26 businesses ranging from catering through printing, engineering and construction to major pharmaceutical companies. I identified an average saving in waste, raw material, energy and water costs of £175,000 per annum, per company. And those health checks barely scratched the surface.

One of my favourite definitions of waste is ‘anything you buy that you cannot sell’ . Savings from cutting waste (whether that is wasted materials, energy or water) comes straight off your bottom line. If your profit margin is 25%, every £1 saved in this way is equivalent to £4 worth of new sales. And unlike cutting staff, cutting waste costs improves rather than detracts from your ability to deliver value to your customers.

2. The true cost of your waste can be immense

I despair at the number of businesses who go to great lengths to manufacture a high value product and then reverse a forklift truck into it or spill it on the floor during packaging. Most businesses know how much waste costs to dispose of, but the true cost of this type of waste is much higher as it includes:

• Disposal costs;
• Raw material costs;
• Energy and other utility costs for manufacturing;
• Labour costs both from the original manufacturing and the clean up;
• The cost of the disruption required to fulfil orders including knock-on effects on other orders;
• Opportunity costs of not being able to sell that product;
• Opportunity costs from poor customer satisfaction (eg lost future orders).

3. Your energy, water and waste costs are rising

Energy costs doubled between June 2007 and 2008. Waste costs continue to rise as landfill tax escalates and the type of materials that can be landfilled are restricted. Indications from the government are that it will continue increasing the Landfill Tax by £8 per tonne each year up to a level of at least £48 per tonne (from £32 per tonne today). In areas such as the South East of England, water resources are becoming ever more scarce so costs are rising. Doing nothing on environment performance means going backwards rather than standing still.

4. Your customers or clients demand it

If you sell to the public, certain markets are going solidly green. The proportion of white goods rated A for energy efficiency sold has risen from 0 to 76% in the ten years to 2006. 70% of baby food sold in the UK is now organic.

If you sell to other businesses, then your environmental performance becomes their environmental performance. Increasingly larger organisations are demanding information on suppliers’ performance and Local Authorities and other public sector bodies are turning to ‘green procurement’ to meet Government targets.

5. Your compliance costs are rising

There are literally hundreds of pieces of environmental legislation being drafted in the EU and the UK Government. Continually shifting incrementally to keep ahead of the law is an expensive hobby whereas eradicating problems completely is cheaper in the long run and keeps you miles ahead of the lawmakers.

Regulators such as the Environment Agency are increasingly taking a risk based approach to enforcement. If you routinely store hazardous materials, or they regard your practices as poor, they’ll be knocking on your door much more often than if you have eradicated the hazards and have tip top housekeeping.

6. You may be risking prosecution

Every three years the Environment Agency surveys small business’ attitudes to the environment. In 2005 only 18% could name one piece of environmental legislation that affects them, even though every company must comply with several pieces of legislation, for example, waste management regulations .

And it is not just small business who are at risk. In the last year, I have had several arguments with major household names who have misunderstood the scope of the Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE). I really had to browbeat them into accepting that they were breaking the law, faced prosecution and the resulting PR fall out.

7. You are missing out on a great PR opportunity

With all the media attention on environmental issues, good environmental performance gives you a great opportunity to get good news stories into the media and advertising. Good solid green PR will impress the public, the pressure groups, your clients and customers and the regulators.

8. Pressure groups may give you a nasty surprise 

In 2007, Apple Computers had it all. From their stylish iMac and MacBook computers to the revolutionary and must-have iPod and rumours of a phone abounding, their fashionable, cutting edge image appeared unassailable. That was until Greenpeace put them bottom of an environmental league table of electronics companies and set up a parody of Apple’s website to detail their environmental infractions . Apple’s legendary CEO Steve Jobs at first dismissed the campaign, but only instigated a stronger backlash . Jobs then realised the precarious position he was in, with Apple’s hip image at serious risk. He did a swift u-turn, launching a radical programme to improve environmental performance and publicised it on the company’s home page for a month.

If you are a high profile business (eg a high street retailer, an energy company, a major construction company, a motor manufacturer, a producer of household goods or in the primary sector – mining, oil, gas, forestry etc), then you are at direct risk from environmental and human rights pressure groups. These groups need high profile campaigns like the Apple example to make the mainstream media take notice and are always looking for a ‘tall poppy’ to target. If you are a smaller business, but you do business with a high profile client, then pressure groups will hold them responsible for your environmental sins. This is a very easy way to lose a major customer.

9. Your staff want you to do it

Environmental and CSR initiatives are a determining factor in employee retention and engagement rates according to the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD). In the US, a survey of over 4,000 people carried out by recruitment job site MonsterTRAK found that 80 per cent of young professionals are interested in securing a job that has a positive impact on the environment. Meanwhile, over 90 per cent claimed they would prefer to work for an environmentally friendly employer. In the UK, a survey of 5,000 job hunters showed that 43% would not work for a firm which had no ethical or environmental policies, even if they were offered £10,000 a year more than to work for a business with a sense of corporate social responsibility.

10. Your competitors are doing it

The 2005 NetRegs survey found that 71% of businesses had made at least one practical step to improve their environmental performance . Some sectors have seen green issues come right to the fore eg the current great green supermarket wars where Marks & Spencer, Tesco and Sainsbury’s are fighting it out to get the best green image. Sir Timothy Leahy went on the record this year to say that Tesco’s plans would not be affected by the ‘credit crunch’ as he believed consumers’ values would not change . He sees this as a serious part of maintaining Tesco’s competitive advantage over its rivals.

If your competitors have a better environmental performance than you, then compared to you they will:

• Have lower operating costs and either a higher profit margin or a more competitive pricing structure;
• Be more robust to future change: new legislation, green taxation, and customer demand;
• Have better PR and marketing opportunities;
• Have better motivated employees and will be attracting the best new recruits;
• Have less risk of prosecution, NGO campaigns and a lighter touch from the regulators.

Well, they’d be mad not to, wouldn’t they?

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Close race among Nye, Rigell and Golden as election day nears
The lackluster national economy, partisan loyalty and the federal stimulus are all at play in the nationally watched congressional race between Democratic U.S. Rep. Glenn Nye, Republican Scott Rigell and Independent Kenny Golden in Hampton Roads.

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Qantas Cheers, Winemakers Jeer as Aussie Reaches Parity With U.S. Dollar
Qantas Airways Ltd. may be among the few Australian companies to celebrate after the nation’s currency strengthened to parity with the U.S. dollar, making planes and fuel cheaper while exporters’ profits drop.

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China scare offset by dollar drop
A decline in the dollar helped fuel a market rebound on Wednesday that nearly erased a big sell-off the day before brought on by fears of a slowdown in China. The dollar fell 1.2% against a broad basket of currencies as demand for safe-haven investments eased.

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Qantas Cheers, Winemakers Jeer Aussie’s Rise
Qantas Airways Ltd. may be among the few Australian companies to celebrate after the nation’s currency strengthened to parity with the U.S. dollar, making planes and fuel cheaper while exporters’ profits drop.

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Govt proposing that many trucks improve efficiency
WASHINGTON – Future tractor-trailers, school buses, delivery vans, garbage trucks and heavy-duty pickup trucks must do better at the pump under first-ever fuel efficiency rules coming from the Obama administration. read more

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How Businesses Can Improve Their Bottom Line With Single Stream Recycling

The current economy is making nearly everyone re-evaluate their expenditures and look for ways to improve their bottom line. Profit margins are tighter than ever and every step in the right direction makes a difference. Many businesses may be surprised to learn that they can improve their bottom line with single stream recycling containers.

Single stream recycling refers to the most convenient recycling method available today: everything that is recyclable goes into the same recycling bin and is picked up and processed by a service provider. Recycling bins come in a variety of sizes and shapes and they can be customized to match your company’s decor while reducing your trash expense and limiting the amount of material disposed of in landfills.

Garbage Is Expensive

Every business owner knows that garbage collection and disposal can become prohibitively expensive. Until recent years, there were no other options except to rent a dumpster and pay a garbage service for the removal of your trash. The environmental movement of the 1970s and the realization that landfill space is limited and that toxins seeping into the soil are less than desirable has lead to a boom in the recycling industry.

Business owners can take advantage of these new resource management options through the use of single stream recycling bins. Recycling programs cut your monthly trash expense significantly. Instead of paying to have recyclable materials thrown into landfills, business owners can install recycling containers within their facilities that will cut their garbage expenses significantly, improving their bottom line.

Turn The Tables On Trash

This shift in resource management has resulted in substantial savings for many businesses already. Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle found that they reduced their garbage expense by $170,000 in the first year after installing recycling containers and implementing a recycling program. They also reduced their contributions to local landfills by 80%. Those numbers are significant for any business and the recycling program at Virginia Mason Hospital will only become more efficient and productive as patients and employees become more familiar with the new recycling containers and the program.

Garbage can turn from a liability to an asset with the simple implementation of single stream recycling containers in only a matter of days for businesses of all sizes. Single stream recycling companies are able to provide individual assessments of the contents of your current garbage flow to provide reliable predictions on the expected outcome of implementing such a program and installing recycling containers throughout your facility.

Convenience And Service

Single stream recycling containers incur far greater participation rates than item-by-item recycling bins, simply by being so convenient. Participants do not need to sort anything. Paper, plastic, and metal all go into the same recycling bin; the materials are then sorted at the processing plant. This added convenience and individualized service go a long way to reduce the garbage expense paid by your business each month.

Reduced garbage expenses and improved goodwill from your customers for being environmentally responsible will both go a long way to improve your company’s bottom line and the overall health of our planet.

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Mecca Bingo Leads the Way to Saving The Planet
Meccabingo.com has gone from pink to green, with a brand new scheme that aims to provide bingo fans with quick and easy ways to save energy. (PRWeb October 22, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/10/prweb4691894.htm

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Happyzine Announces the Launch of ‘Wild Energy
Wild Energy – an international green energy design competition intended to spark more creativity, fun and imagination amongst environmentalists – is open for entries. The competition was developed in response to the challenge New Zealand is currently …

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Area schools in running for ‘green repairs’ money
Five area schools are in the running for Massachusetts School Building Authority grants that could help pay for “green repairs” including roofs, windows and boilers.

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Corvallis earns Green Power Community of the Year award
Corvallis has received a 2010 Green Power Leadership Award fromthe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in recognition of itscommitment and contribution to helping advance the development ofthe nation’s voluntary green power market.

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$8 million plan to improve energy efficiency at IUSB approved
On Wednesday, the State of Indiana gave the green light to an $8 million plan to improve energy efficiency in several IUSB buildings.

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Alternative Fuels – Can Hydrogen Gas Car Improve Fuel Efficiency?

Hydrogen gas car is the latest rage in the hybrid cars range. These cars use water as fuel to give big boosts to existing fuel efficiency. Though cars that use water as 100% fuel are still in research stage, you can have cars that combine water and existing fossil fuels like gasoline/ diesel to improve mileage incredibly by two to three times. This technology has the twin benefits of money savings for you and reduced emissions and hence less pollution to the environment.

The hydrogen gas car technology uses the inherent power of water to enhance engine performance. You can get this system in your car by selecting a good kit which teaches you step by step how to install the necessary device. It uses easy to procure hardware store parts only.

This device with current supplied from the car battery is used to convert the water – H2O into a gas – HHO (two hydrogen parts and one oxygen part). This gas is highly potent, produces substantially more energy and helps to burn the gasoline or diesel fuel more efficiently.

This technology is very simple to install and use. Though it is a system that has existed for a century only now it has been updated and simplified to be used by us. Your car engine does not need any modification nor is there any major set up that is needed.

It is a low maintenance system, safe and can be fitted on to many types of vehicles like cars, trucks etc. There is no dangerous storage tank involved for storing the hydrogen that is generates; the gas is produced and used up as and when required. When the car starts, the power cell device produces HHO and when the car sis switched off HHO release also stops.

o Inexpensive and simple to install hydrogen gas car system 
o You can install it yourself with the step by step instructions- no prior experience or expertise needed 
o System uses water along with gasoline or diesel to improve fuel efficiency 
o Water increases the horse power of the engine while at the same time keeping the engine clean and with reduced emissions
o Tried and tested technology used by thousands around the world 
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