FUEL is an insightful portrait of America’s addiction to oil and an uplifting testament to the immediacy of new energy solutions. Director, Josh Tickell, a young activist, shuttles us on a whirlwind journey to track the rising domination of the petrochemical industry — from Rockefeller’s strategy to halt Ford’s first ethanol cars to Vice President Cheney’s petrochemical company sponsored energy legislation — and reveals a gamut of available solutions to “repower America” — from vertical farms that occupy skyscrapers to algae facilities that turn wastewater into fuel. Tickell and a surprising array of environmentalists, policy makers, and entertainment notables take us through America’s complicated, often ignominious energy past and illuminate a hopeful, achievable future, where decentralized, sustainable living is not only possible, it’s imperative.

I saw Fuel last night and thought it was a good thought provoking film. It is an interesting look at oil and how we use it to power our world, it’s pros and cons, and what might be the future of clean renewable fuels. Although I thought it was a tad long, I’d highly recommend seeing it. Eric Johnson of Desert Biofuels has a good write up on what he thought of the film on their blog. If you are interested in sustainable biofuels check out Desert Biofuels website to learn more.

Run down to the nearest theater showing this film and check it out! If you are in Arizona the film has just been extended to show until Thursday April 30th at Harkins Camelview.

If you don’t already know the Tesla Motors is a California start up that has just started selling an electric battery powered sports car. They are much too expensive for the average car buyer, but hopefully the research that has gone into these will move into less expensive models someday. Tesla’s specs are pretty impressive for a electric car, it goes 0 to 60 in less than 4 seconds with a top speed of 125 MPH. It also can go around 200 miles in a single charge.

Top Gear’s review is a bit mixed, but overall they seemed impressed. Pretty good considering they usually bash “eco” cars.

This is pretty neat, a company called Change to E85 is selling kits to allow non-flex-fuel vehicles to run on E85 ethanol. These kits are basically a small computer that tricks a car’s computer to adjust the fuel injection system for E85. This actually works and I know of a guy that has been running this in a Prius with no problems. If you have been wanting to run E85 in your vehicle, but it’s not flex-fuel you might want to check this out. The video below show how easy it is to install, you basically just have to plug it in to your fuel injector.

There’s been a lot of debate about biofuels lately, so before you swith you might want to learn more about it and decide for youself if E85 is better than gasoline.

Not bad for only being open for a couple weeks! If you haven’t been over there yet now is a great time to check them out.

Here’s a quote from AZ Biodiesel’s owner Dan Rees from local diesel forum sparkfree.com.

You told us…………”appointments are lame”

So………….no more appointments!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is the map to our Gilbert location for you to get fuel:
http://azbiodiesel.com/contact.htm

And just to celebrate……..biodiesel now $2.50 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah!!!!!!!!! lower methanol prices allowed us to lower our price again!!!

Thanks everyone!
Dan

A recent episode of Frontline covering the topic of global climate change had a segment with the Chevy Volt. While Chevy tried to show off the Volt driving up a not so steep looking hill it turned out the car couldn’t make it and stalled out. Hopefully this was just a fluke and not a sign that things aren’t going well with this promising new technology. Check out the video below and see the Volt doing a whole lot of fail.

If don’t know what the Volt is all about it is and all electric car that should be able to go 40 miles on a 8 hour charge and then is backed up by a gasoline engine to produce electricity to extend the car’s range to hundreds of miles.