Oil

An Environmental Oil Company, Really?

Sounds like an oxymoron doesn't it? Usually when the words environmental and gas station or used in the same sentence, they negate each other. In this case, however, we are looking to find a gas station that currently does the least environmental harm. In other words, a lesser of evils...

Dismissing the Myths of Hybrid Cars

New technology is prone to being a source of confusion simply because few people know all the facts, understand the technology, and get caught up in exaggerated stories generated by peoples' natural impulsive tendency to allow fantasies to fill in the blanks. Following are four common myths surrounding hybrid cars. We'll see which ones are fact, and which ones are fiction...

So what is a hybrid car, anyways?

All hybrid cars share at least three common factors. In fact, all three capabilities must be present in order for the vehicle to be classified as hybrid. These three steps include:

1. Regenerative braking
2. Idle-off capability
3. Power Assist

These steps are explained in the article...

Comparing the three types of hybrid vehicles

There are three primary types of hybrid vehicles we are going to compare: the parallel hybrid, the mild hybrid and the plug-in hybrid. In the next section, we will outline the comparisons of these hybrid vehicles...

So you want a hybrid car - but why? What's so great about hybrids?

The term hybrid is one of the hottest new buzz words to enter the English lexicon. In our global economy and an ever-growing awareness of the limitations of our resources, people everywhere are concerned about how we can maintain our lifestyles into the future. There is a plethora of curiosity, enthusiasm and confusion surrounding this term as we face high gas prices and a bleak forecast for our natural environment. Our very lifestyles are being threatened, and so people all over the world look to the hybrid car as a potential solution, allowing us to continue speeding across our lands and living our lives of convenience. With all these concerns riding on the success of such new technology, it is no wonder that people want to know, in simple terms, how hybrid cars work...

A non-renewable resource lives up to its name

The reality of the situation is that crude oil is a fossil fuel, something that cannot be recreated or regenerated, and the world is rapidly running out of this so-called precious resource. Even the Middle East (Saudi Arabia), stockpiling some of the largest crude oil reserves in the world, will eventually run out. Because of its deep integration in our society, businesses and individuals depend on oil.  Carmakers, airplane manufacturers, and various manufacturing and processing facilities thrive on the profits generated by oil-based equipment.  What these companies are failing to realize is that there's not much left. United States oil production peaked in the early 1970's, and we are now completely out of crude oil, depending on other nations for our oil imports.  Because of its limited availability, crude oil is bound to run out everywhere sooner or later. And that time is closer than we think...