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22 January 2006
Sun, 22 Jan 2006 11:22:00 GMT Troops Return From Iraq With Money to Burnvia Kjell Olsen989 days agoHe’s been home from Iraq a little over 30 hours and already he’s trading in his little 2001 Dodge Neon for a muscle car
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18 January 2006
Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:46:00 GMT FUH2 | Fuck You And Your H2via Kjell Olsen993 days agoPeople of the World Lift a Finger Against the Hummer. I can’t tell you how much I want to let the air out of the tires of every hummer I see.
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20 December 2005
Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:24:22 GMT The Anti-Social Bastards in Our Midstvia Kjell Olsen1022 days agoWhen you drive, society becomes an obstacle. Pedestrians, bicycles, traffic calming, speed limits, the law: all become a nuisance to be wished away. The more you drive, the more bloody-minded and individualistic you become. The car is slowly turning us, like the Americans and the Australians, into a nation which recognises only the freedom to act, and not the freedom from the consequences of other people
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19 June 2005
Sun, 19 Jun 2005 09:42:42 GMT Brazilians buck rising gas prices with innovative fuelvia Kjell Olsen1206 days agoLike tens of thousands of her countrymen, she is running her zippy red Fiat on pure ethanol extracted from Brazilian sugar cane. On a recent morning in Brazil’s largest city, the clear liquid was selling for less than half the price of gasoline.
Minnesota just ok’d a bill that called for higher ethanol content in gas, but running your entire car off the stuff sounds like fun.
Today about 40 percent of all the fuel that Brazilians pump into their vehicles is ethanol, known here as alcohol, compared with about 3 percent in the United States. No other nation is using ethanol on such a vast scale. The change wasn’t easy or cheap. But 30 years later, Brazil is reaping the return on its investment in energy security while the United States writes checks for $50-a-barrel foreign oil.
Flex Fuel vehicles use an engine that can run off either gas or ethanol, or any mix of the two.
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16 May 2005
Mon, 16 May 2005 20:47:42 GMT Treehugger: Argentinean Scientists Get Pure Hydrogen Through Ethanolvia Kjell Olsen1240 days ago(relatively) Pure hydrogen from ethanol, fun stuff. I just finished reading the chapter in The Long Emergency this afternoon where JHK tells why nothing will be able to drive the oil economy like oil itself did, but I sure hope it doesn’t come to what Kunstler says it will. I’m all for hydrogen cars.
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