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Fungus Makes Diesel

"...a better source of biofuel than anything we use at the moment"

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Goof leads Wis. store to sell diesel for 59 cents

ETLYONS, Wis. – Diesel fuel was on heavy discount at a rural Wisconsin convenience store — just 59 cents a gallon. ... more

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Wrightspeed X1 - l'auto elettrica più veloce del mondo

Chi ritiene che la tecnologia dei motori elettrici non sia capace di competere con i motori a benzina sbaglia di grosso. La... more

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55DSL Logo Remix Challenge!!!!

With the imminence of 55DSL’s 15th anniversary in 2009, 55DSL is ready to celebrate the unique mix of attitude and... more

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AirPod MDI - la citycar ad aria compressa

AirPod a propulsa ad aria compressa, è stata presentata al recente salone dell'auto di Parigi, ma "chissà... more

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55DSL in LA by Bronques of Last Night's Party

Check out this sultry video created by the king of voyeurism, Bronques, from Last Night's Party of all the new friends he... more

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Paris Hilton See-Through Candids at The Diesel Party in London

The socialite PARIS HILTON look chic arriving at The Diesel xXx Creative Experiment Party for Diesel 30th Birthday.I think those... more

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55DSL x Complete Technique Jewelry Collaboration

A new collaborative jewelry collection from 55DSL and Complete Technique will see its official launch this week.

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Diesel SFW XXX

This may seem inappropriate at first but after you don't pay attention to the sounds you will be able to appreciate the time... more

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Diesel SFW XXX Video

Pornographic scenes made safe for work. Viral spot directed by Keith Schofield.

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VW Jetta TDI Diesel vs. Toyota Prius Reviews - Volkswagen Fuel Economy Beats Prius

Well if you read the fine print, the Prius is better in town then the VW on MPG. On the highway the VW beats the Prius but just by... more

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The 65-mpg car Ford won't sell in US

If ever there was a car made for the times, this would seem to be it: a sporty subcompact that seats five, offers a navigation system and gets a whopping 65 miles to the gallon. Oh, yes, and the car is made by Ford Motor (F, news, msgs), known widely for lumbering gas hogs.

Ford's 2009 Fiesta ECOnetic goes on sale in November. But here's the catch: Despite the car's potential to transform Ford's image and help it compete with Toyota Motor (TM, news, msgs) and Honda Motor (HMC, news, msgs) in its home market, the company will sell the little fuel sipper only in Europe.

"We know it's an awesome vehicle," says Ford America President Mark Fields. "But there are business reasons why we can't sell it in the U.S." The main one: The Fiesta ECOnetic runs on diesel.
Automakers such as Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz have predicted for years that a technology called "clean diesel" would overcome many Americans' antipathy toward a fuel still often thought of as the smelly stuff that powers tractor-trailers.

Diesel vehicles now hitting the market with pollution-fighting technology are as clean as, or even cleaner than, gasoline-powered cars, and they are at least 30% more fuel-efficient.

Yet while half of all cars sold in Europe last year ran on diesel, the U.S. market remains relatively unfriendly to the fuel.

Taxes aimed at commercial trucks mean diesel costs anywhere from 40 cents to $1 more per gallon than gasoline. Add to this the success of the Toyota Prius, and you can see why only 3% of cars in the U.S. use diesel.

"Americans see hybrids as the darling," says Global Insight auto analyst Philip Gott, "and diesel as old tech."None of this is stopping European and Japanese automakers, which are betting they can jump-start the U.S. market with new diesel models. Mercedes-Benz by next year will have three cars it markets as BlueTec. Even Nissan Motor (NSANY, news, msgs) and Honda, which long opposed building diesel cars in Europe, plan to introduce them in the United States in 2010.

But Ford, whose Fiesta ECOnetic compares favorably with European diesels, can't make a business case for bringing the car to the United States.

First of all, the engines are built in Britain, so labor costs are high. Plus the pound remains stronger than the greenback. At prevailing exchange rates, the Fiesta ECOnetic would sell for about $25,700 in the United States.

By contrast, the Prius typically goes for about $24,000.

A $1,300 tax deduction available to buyers of new diesel cars could bring the price of the Fiesta to around $24,400. But Ford doesn't believe it could charge enough to make money on an imported ECOnetic.

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Andare in moto al distributore e fare diesel...

Forse non tutti sanno che sul mercato esiste una Moto Turbo Diesel. Il suo nome è [...]

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Congress should say NO to coal-to-diesel

Yes, the country is dangerously addicted to oil, which threatens our security and our environmental well-being. But coal-to-liquids (CTL), the Fischer-Tropsch process, is not the answer, as Climate Progress has argued previously. It is just too dirty.

Unfortunately, as a recent New York Times article trumpeted: Lawmakers Push for Big Subsidies for Coal Process. The piece has an excellent figure showing why cellulosic ethanol and electricity are much better transportation fuels:

CTL diesel has twice the greenhouse gas emissions as regular diesel, unless you capture and store the carbon dioxide — and even then, CTL still isn’t cleaner.

But no CTL plant currently captures and stores the carbon dioxide and few are likely to do so any time soon — because the process is already wildly expensive. You need to spend a stunning $4.5 billion dollars just for a 50,000-barrel-a-day facility without CO2 storage, as detailed in a new Energy Department Report. And the U.S. uses more than 20 million barrels of oil a day.

So what is Congress contemplating?

* loan guarantees for six to 10 major coal-to-liquid plants, each likely to cost at least $3 billion
* a tax credit of 51 cents for every gallon of coal-based fuel sold through 2020
* automatic subsidies if oil prices drop below $40 a barrel, and
* permission for the Air Force to sign 25-year contracts for almost a billion gallons a year of coal-based jet fuel.

These are all dreadful ideas–subsidizing global warming. So why is Congress pursuing this?

Coal companies have spent millions of dollars lobbying on the issue, and have marshaled allies in organized labor, the Air Force and fuel-burning industries like the airlines. Peabody Energy, the world’s biggest coal company, urged in a recent advertising campaign that people “imagine a world where our country runs on energy from Middle America instead of the Middle East.”

Imagine a world with 20 feet higher sea level rise thanks in part to government subsidies to polluters. No thank you!Yes, the country is dangerously addicted to oil, which threatens our security and our environmental well-being. But... more