Keeping Your Car in Shape For Best Fuel Efficiency
Fixing a car that is noticeably out of tune or has failed an emissions test can improve its gas mileage by an average of 4 percent, though results vary based on the kind of repair and how well it is done...
How to Improve Gas Mileage
Whether you are shopping for a new car or just trying to maintain the one you have, you can take some steps to get the best mileage out of your gas purchases. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the nation’s consumer protection agency, offers these tips to use fuel efficiently...
Hybrid Vehicles
How Hybrids Work
Hybrid-electric vehicles (HEVs) combine the benefits of gasoline engines and electric motors and can be configured to obtain different objectives, such as improved fuel economy, increased power, or additional auxiliary power for electronic devices and power tools....
Federal Tax Credits For Hybrid Vehicles
Qualifying hybrids purchased or placed into service after December 31, 2005 may be eligible for a federal income tax credit of up to $3,400.
Air Quality
10 Simple Steps to Improving Air Quality
Trip chain more often. It's easy! Chances are, you're already doing it -
combining your errands into one trip. It helps you get things done and it helps
reduce traffic congestion and air pollution...
Water Quality
Keep pollution out of our streams and Puget Sound
Car wash kits keep soap and car fluids -- which are toxic to fish -- out of our
waterways by rerouting water to a water treatment facility. So if you hold
community or charity car washes or are an organization that works with those who
do, learn how you can build one of your own...
Fuel Alternatives
Alternative Fuel Vehicles
Flex-fuel vehicles (FFV) have a single fuel tank, fuel system, and engine. The vehicles are designed to run on regular unleaded gasoline and an alcohol fuel (either ethanol or methanol) in any mixture - for example, 100% gasoline...
Biodiesel Basics and Commonly Asked Questions Biodiesel is the name of a clean burning alternative fuel, produced from
domestic, renewable resources. Biodiesel contains no petroleum, but it can be
blended at any level with petroleum diesel to create a biodiesel blend. It can
be used in compression-ignition (diesel) engines with little or no modifications...
Biodiesel Myths and Facts
Biodiesel is one of the most thoroughly tested alternative fuels on the market. A number of independent studies have been completed with the results showing biodiesel performs similar to petroleum diesel while benefiting the environment and human health compared to diesel...
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