When the price of fuel started its monumental climb a few months ago, The Influence, a Virginia Beach-based band, started looking for alternative ways to travel. Their solution: a tour bus converted to run on waste vegetable oil.
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The Peak Oil Crisis: Diesel
The evidence is mounting that the U.S. might just encounter the first real crisis of the oil depletion age before the year is out.
The Peak Oil Crisis: The First Shortages
Fuel prices alone are unlikely to bring America to its senses.
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Future of Our Cars
Last week’s column explored the options for powering vehicles when supplies of imported petroleum and products start to decline. At present it appears that biofuels, natural gas, and electricity are the only alternatives that will be available in large deliverable, quantities in the next ten or 20 years. While […]
The Peak Oil Crisis: Diesel
The evidence is growing that it is going to take a really major event to get America out of its beloved and seemingly essential automobiles. Even with gasoline running a dollar a gallon higher compared to this time last year, consumption is holding about the same or even creeping up […]
