Extended Version of The Michelin Man Defeats the Evil Gas Pump TV Commercial

This is the extended :45 version of our new Evil Gas Pump TV Commercial, now available to you for the first time! The MICHELIN Energy Saver A/S Tire is strong on fuel efficiency and can help save up to 109 gallons of fuel over standard tires. Plus it stops up to 8 feet shorter in wet conditions and has the longest tread life of any super fuel efficient tire. See how the right tire changes everything at michelinman.com/righttire.

Gas prices: Bracing for more pain at the pump

Help with utility bills warms up
State officials this week began accepting online applications for people seeking winter assistance w …

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Average gas price might top $4 this year
Corning, N.Y. — Gas prices in New York are the highest they’ve been since record-setting highs in July 2008, and some experts believe prices will again reach those levels – or even surpass them.

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Average gas price might top $4 this year
Corning, N.Y. — Gas prices in New York are the highest they’ve been since record-setting highs in July 2008, and some experts believe prices will again reach those levels – or even surpass them.

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Economy predicted to improve in 2011
Although the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009, the pace of recovery has been less robust than one would normally expect.

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Gas prices: Bracing for more pain at the pump
Drivers may be bracing for more pain at the pump in 2011 as gas prices continue to head higher.

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Treadle Pump Treadle Pump (If I can make a treadle pump, you can make a treadle pump too!)

This melodic-mnemonic is a music video intended to introduce the concept of the treadle pump. It also demonstrates our latest Solar CITIES initiative training Africans in diaspora (particularly Nigerians, like Paul Chido Iwunna, our Nigerian-German colleague featured in the video) in “Green-collar jobs and sustainable development technology” here in Germany and then traveling to our mother-countries to share the knowledge and technologies with our homeland communities. In this case Chido and I and Dr. Charisma Acey (American professor of Urban Planning married to a Nigerian) traveled to Port Harcourt with Chido’s mother to build a treadle pump with local craftsmen for the family home so they no longer have to pull water from the borehole with a small bucket and a rope. It is our intention to involve many more Africans and Middle Eastern and Asian immigrants here in Germany and abroad so that we can all participate in the “Sustainable Green Brain Gain”! Won’t you join us?

Old Meets New at the Gas Pump – CNG fuel for NGVs

Gilbarco Veeder-Root, a world leader in fuel dispensers takes aim at the alternative fuel market with a pump that dispenses gasoline, diesel, propane-LPG, and — of course — CNG, from a single dispenser unit.

HHO Cell Welder-Ball Pump Tip-Cigarette Filter Flash Guard

HappyHandyman.net Pat diverts the 4-runner’s HHO cell Hydrogen generator output to do a volume test, then weld and cook. (Re-wired with10 guage, the hydrogen fuel cell prototype array makes 1800+ of HHO gas in 30 hours, a gallon/minute (at atmospheric pressure). The gas is 40% Hydrogen by volume, 60% Oxygen. Pat uses 4-cell array of Stainless Steel tubes wired in series from a car battery. The simple flash guard: 1″ cigarette butt stuffed in 1/4″ ID rubber tube. The welding tip: Basket ball pump needle. $200 in parts.

Prius Delievers Slow Relief at the Pump

In the ironic words of Kermit the Frog, “it isn’t easy being green”. The irony is noted by our present day efforts to conserve energy or in other words become “green”. The notion behind this movement is fueled by two variables: cost and the well being of our global environment. As gas prices at the pump skyrocket, the demand for better gas mileage rises. Also, as fears of global warming start to materialize, the demand of a “green” vehicles rise as well. We have seen automobile manufacturers, who produce hybrids, capitalize on this sellers market, created by the two variables above. Toyota Motor Corporation has been marketing to our fears and petrol price woes with the Prius for just about seven years now in the US. Has the existence of the Prius over the past seven years placated our fears? Many of us would like to think so, especially those of you who are Prius owners. However, the sad truth is that it falls short of the marketed claims, producing unsatisfactory results across the board.

Let us first look at gasoline consumption. The 2007 Prius receives 46 miles per gallon and wears this stat like a green badge of honor. This means that the 11.9 gallon fuel tank on the Prius only needs to be topped off about twice every four weeks (based on the national average automobiles that are driven 12,000 miles per year). Thus, the Prius consumes only $1,043.48 in gasoline per year, with a price per gallon of $4.00. How can these savings be unsavory? Would less gas equate to greater gas savings? It sure would, but let us enter a common scenario. Recent economic conditions force you to cut your costs. Your current car is a gas-guzzling Hummer H2. You decide the best route to go is trade in for a mid sized sedan. Instantly you think “Toyota” and find the 2007 Prius and the 2007 Camry your best two options. Standing on the lot, we see the sticker price and MPG. The Camry shows a base price of $18,085.00 and a total of 24 MPG. On the other side of the balance we have the Prius. With 46 MPG and a base price of $23,730.00, it is hard to tell which automobile will be the most cost efficient.

To help turn this into an effortless decision, I have constructed a schedule of cost comparison between our two prospective cars. The equation used to forecast these costs is Approximate Miles Driven per year/ MPG = Total Gallons Used. To convert this into a dollar figure, multiply Total Gallons Used by the Price of Fuel. This yields the average cost of fuel each vehicle will consume yearly. The average cost of fuel is then added to the sticker price of the vehicle. The schedule will illustrate the cost of purchasing and fueling of each car, allowing us to simply compare and contrast.

Model Prius Camry

Base

Price $23,730 $18,085

Year

1 24,773.48 20,085.00

2 25,816.96 22,085.00

3 26,860.43 24,085.00

4 27,903.91 26,085.00

5 28,947.39 28,085.00

6 29,990.87 30,085.00

* Using 12,000 miles driven per year and $4.00 per gallon. Both models are taken from 2007

The schedule clearly displays the Camry holding the cost advantage over the Prius for the first five years. It is not until the 6th year that exceptionally high gas mileage of the Prius starts to off set the cost. If you are cost conscious, you will most likely decide to finance the Camry for five years and look to trade it in after it is paid off. Or maybe you are environmentally conscious, and it is not the cost that motivates your decision but consumption of gasoline. The person with the “green” mindset would opt for the Prius, but are there hidden environmental infractions committed by the Prius?

The environmentalist who decides on the Prius is only thinking in terms of personal consumption, which is displayed in the schedule above. A true tree hugger would be concerned about total energy consumption, which accounts for all energy used in producing, consuming, and disposing of a product. The Prius boasts high gas mileage, but what it saves in petroleum consumption, it wastes in production. As we know, hybrids consist of an internal combustion engine and a battery powered electric motor. The battery is made from Nickel that is mined in Sudbury, Ontario and smelted a short distance from the mines. The smelting process produces large amounts of sulfur dioxide, directly causing highly concentrated acid rain to fall in the surrounding area. The acid rain has destroyed the surrounding wilderness leaving in its wake a barren waste land with no sign of life. Moreover, NASA often uses this barren area to test and train astronauts in moon buggy maneuver, since the outskirts of Sudbury, Ontario sharply resembles the landscape found on the moon.

Not only is the Prius’ manufacturing pollution one of the worst in the automotive industry, but the smelted nickel goes on a petroleum dependant journey that travels over 10,000 miles. Transported by diesel locomotive and container ship, the amount of fuel used in this stage of production seems to fade the luster Toyota Motor Corporation painted on the Prius and its performance.

Ask Toyota if it is easy being “green”. I am willing to bet their answer would be similar to our proverbial green profits’ ironic statement above. It seems we can not overcome barriers of energy consumption; we restrict energy consumption in one area and double consumption in other areas, allowing companies like Toyota, to hide behind their green badge of marketability gold. Prius brightly displays this badge, but now we find it is just a façade erected by the marketing department, with one objective: to influence public perception before they have a chance to hear or read an article like this.

Gas Mileage Devices – a Guide to Saving Money at the Gas Pump

Let’s face it, with the ever-increasing gas prices and the government’s lack of initiative to fund a good replacement energy source, we’ve been left holding the bag. For this very reason, many people have resorted to conservation and have started using gas mileage devices to lower their overall gas consumption. Here are a few examples of these gas-saving instruments:

1. Vapor Bleed instruments. These types of devices are installed near the engine compartment and bleeds air through a container of water and an anti-freeze mixture. Some examples of these tools include the Atomized Vapor Injector, the SCATPAC Vacuum Vapor Induction System and the Turbo Injection System.

2. Air Bleed Instruments. Similar to the Vapor Bleed devices mentioned above, Air Bleeders bleed air but this time they are injected into the carburetor.

3. Liquid Injection Devices, which add liquid into the fuel and air intake system instead of the combustion chamber.

4. Coolants for Fuel Line Devices. These nifty little devices prepare the fuel before it is entered into the carburetor. The coolant heats the fuel in order to take the load off the exhaust and the electrical system.

5. Ionized Fuel Line Devices. These are specialized devices installed in the fuel line and promote ionization in the fuel, through the use of several dissimilar metals.

6. Carburetor Mixture Enhancers. These gas mileage tools are installed between the intake manifold and the carburetor and do the job of improving the vaporization of the air/fuel mixture.

7. Liquid Mixture Enhancers. These things do the same job as the carburetor mixture enhancer, but are in liquid form and mixed with the fuel.

8. Various Engine Modifications. These are usually done to enhance the efficiencies of the engine, which means they would require less gas for propulsion. Most of these are done on old engines that are worn down because of age.

9. Various Fuel Additives. These types of gas mileage increasing additives vary in purpose and makeup, from liquid oil enhancers to lubricants to coolants, they are all lumped in this category as long as they are added internally to the gas tank.

10. Driving Aid Devices. These are by far the odd part of the bunch. Instead of helping the car increase mileage internally, these devices usually try to modify the driver’s habit. For example, a light or sound device that alerts the driver if he is going to fast or suggests a shift in gears. The most expensive types are usually digital devices that also provide warnings for other instances such as leaving the door or the trunk ajar.

There has been much criticism thrown at gas mileage devices due to some manufacturers’ claim that they can increase gas mileage by as much as 30%, even though the EPA has tested them and found only 12% to 25% increase in overall gas mileage. Either way, even though these devices were not able to live up to their hype, the 12% mileage increase would still go along way, especially in the long term. Just make sure to assess the total cost of some of the devices, if the savings on gas money will justify their cost.

Ecodan Heat Pump System Mitsubishi Electric

Draw heat out of the air using air-to-water heat pumps and start saving on heating right away. The new Ecodan heat pump system from Mitsubishi Electric will cut your heating costs by up to 50%. That’s because the heat pump with the unique Zubadan technology ensures 100% efficiency in space and water heating with no energy-intensive heating rods and even on frosty winter days as cold as -15 °C. The Ecodan System is a clever, environmentally friendly heating solution with a 200 l drinking water tank and a quiet heat pump that can be set up flexibly and unobtrusively outdoors. Simple to install in new construction projects or as part of renovations.

How to Save Money at the Gas Pump

Prices at the gas pump got you down? Our DI scientists have put together some practical suggestions for you and your pocketbook. Follow these tips to increase your gas mileage and save some dough!

Motorcraft PFB4 Fuel Pump and Hanger Assembly

• Efficient single-stage turbine design
• Exceptional hot fuel handling capability
• Reliable in-tank operation
• Precision-balanced armature for low noise and vibration
• Maximizes performance

Product Description
Motorcraft Fuel Pump and Hanger Assemblies are designed and tested to meet OE specifications for durability and reliability under extreme conditions. These pumps feature a single-stage turbine design with an excellent hot fuel handling capability. They create a positive pressure in the fuel lines, pushing the gasoline to the engine with minimal noise and vibration.

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