Convert Your Truck To Natural Gas

It’s clean and it’s cheap, so why not use it? That’s the question that has to be asked about natural gas, which has gone largely unnoticed and under-utilized as a vehicle fuel. But that may be changing. A company called Hybrid Fuel Systems has launched a new system designed to convert truck and bus diesels to natural gas.

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“As truckers and bus operators throughout the world realize that high diesel fuel prices are here to stay, people are looking for practical systems to reduce diesel fuel costs without replacing Read more . . .

Toyota’s Gas Guzzling Truck Criticized

Freedom from Oil activists at the New York Auto Show in spring of 2007 unfurled a 20-foot banner inside the front entrance to the Jacob Javits Center, challenging Toyota to become a true environmental leader. The banner parodied Toyota’s current Tundra full-size pickup truck advertising blitz with a picture of the truck driving over a globe with the tagline, “Toyota: The Truck That’s Changing the Climate.” The banner flew at the entrance of the exhibition hall for several minutes before police arrested the two Freedom from Oil climbers who placed it. Read more . . .

Green My Ride

Transportation is one of the largest sources of air pollution in the US and Canada. This sector not only contributes to the formation of smog and acid rain but also produces a quarter of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions.

To address the issue, the Federal Government has announced measures to reduce the impact of vehicle emissions on the environment and human health. They include regulating cars and light-duty trucks to use fuel more efficiently and working with the United States to establish an environmentally ambitious standard for all North American vehicles. Read more . . .