Taking care of an automobile is very simple. Filling a car up with gasoline and changing the oil are the basics for maintaining a car's engine. Changing gasoline is easy. The car's gasoline tank gets low and all it requires is a one-step fill up at the gas station. The process of an oil change is ...

How to Change Your Oil Frequent oil changes are the best preventative maintenance the home mechanic can give the engine, because old oil becomes contaminated and or burnt, which leads to premature engine wear. Performing simple maintenance such as changing the oil can save hundreds of dollars ove...

Did you know that oil is the lifeblood on which all internal combustion engines must operate? It is even more important then gas and water because it has the potential to cause the most damage in the shortest time if its quality or quantity is compromised. In just a few simple steps I will teach you...

Oil Junkies Watch the Dragon Burn Trends of an Addict The distressing fashion over the past quarter century's economic oil dependence from Middle Eastern and other oil producing countries should be so apparent that Ray Charles could see it. Our ever-increasing costs and demands of mi...

PROFIT OR ENVIRONMENT? The petroleum industry is no different than any other business. It exist to make money and will pursue any means to profit. Americans and other people of the world don't realize how much of an impact the petroleum industry has on the world economy. Most of us don't ...

In 1973 OPEC held the world hostage. They arbitrarily put the world in gasoline crisis causing everyone to come to a complete stand still. One of the outcomes of the oil crises of the seventies is that the United States decided that they could not put all of our "fuel" eggs into one &quo...

How to change the oil in your car. So you need your oil changed, but you don't want to spend the time and money at a garage to have it done. Then here is way you can do it yourself with a few common household tools, a half hour, and about $10 for the filter and oil. It isn't hard and...

CNG- The Only Alternative Over the past hundred plus years the world has relied on oil as the mainstay fuel for vehicles, and this dependence has backed us into a corner. Many people have introduced solutions to this dependence, but unfortunately, none have been put into real world use. These sol...

Why do two stroke engines The two stroke engine, which is widely used to operate such machiner as motorcycles, boats, and lawn equipment such as weed whackers are being tried to put tyo rest because of pollutants they create into the air. These emissions can be attributed to the to the design inef...

Are alternative fuels working? When attending school to be certified to fix state emission failures, instructors tell stories about emission subjects. One in particular that comes to mind is about a couple that tried to end their lives. The instructor showed a paper clipping, from what paper I d...

My Space While stationed on board the USS Underwood FFG 36. I was assigned to work in Auxiliary Machinery Room number one. This space was the smallest engine room on the ship it contained several vital pieces of equipment to the ships operation. This space was located two decks below the main dec...

Imagine the world 50 years from now; picture the scenario of dark skies, gloomy clouds everything around you either is dying or has died. This exactly will take place if nobody takes action against the " potentially earth shattering problems". This horrible scenario would be the result of mankind's ...

As time approaches the 21st century, the automobile has become our major source of mass transportation. Everything about our culture and society has developed around this necessary form of travel. However, along with this necessity comes the issue of pollution to the environment. These great gasol...

The function of a car's engine is to make a car move. Engines come in a variety of strengths and speeds. All modern engines are made of essential parts. A description of the engine's design illustrates its function. The core of the engine is the cylinder. The piston moves up and down in...

As time approaches the 21st century, the automobile has become our major source of mass transportation. Everything about our culture and society has developed around this necessary form of travel. However, along with this necessity comes the issue of pollution to the environment. These great gasol...

Here in My Car If somebody would have told me ten years ago that I would like to work on and restore old cars I would have laughed at them. That all changed shortly after I bought my first car, a vintage mustang. Somewhere during the six hour ride home I decided that I wanted to know everythin...

Through my experiences I have found that when having a used car you can actually improve the car as your mileage goes up. This does not require you to have a lot of money. The restoring process is not a quick process it is done over a long period of time but done on you own time. As time goes on and...

We were asked to explore the impact of a single social or cultural innovation on any society, as a whole, being free to choose any innovation that interested us. The internal combustion engine is being used today in thousands of different products around the world today. From automobiles, to oil...

When people think of hydrogen, outside the studying of a chemistry class or something to that effect, thinks immediately of the hydrogen bomb. This situation is obvious a big image problem. Thanks to new technology, hydrogen has escaped the imagine of the unbearable to other more economical thoug...

This article talks about how the hydrogen economy will be coming. There are a lot of obstacles that they must surpass to form a hydrogen economy. In the year 2003, President George W. Bush announced a 1.7 billion research program to develop a vehicle that would make the air cleaner and use less oil...

When I was nine years old, something happened that forever changed my outlook on life. My family and I were going on a camping trip and as we were traveling down the highway, a car accident occurred right in front of us. My father slammed on the brakes, veering to the left and causing our vehicle to...

Fuel of The Future Hydrogen, the simplest element, is composed of one proton and one electron. It makes up more than 90% of the composition of the universe. More than 30% of the mass of the sun is atomic hydrogen. It is the third most abundant element in the earth's surface, and is found most...

Introduction The spiraling cost of gasoline and the increasing global concern for cleaner fuels has been the single most important factor for both institutional as well as individual consumers alike to influence buying decision for cars in the coming years. For the automotive industry in general and...

In the small geographic area of Greece, and the Greek Isles, Lotus Car Rental is an established company headquartered in Athens, Greece. The company has numerous offices throughout out the islands, and is positioned to serve the tourists which come to view the historic cradle of western ci...

DIESEL ENGINE Introduction The diesel engine is an engine which incorporates internal combustion in which ignition is produced by highly compressed air. Rudolf Diesel, a German engineer developed the idea and obtained the German patent for it in 1892. His goal was to create an engine with high...