My Prius gets 65 MPG!  Well big hairy deal.  Next years car will get 100 MPG….guaranteed!  The real news is the $10 Million purse the X PRIZE Foundation will give to the first company to produce a vehicle to break that golden 100 Mile Per Gallon barrier. This foundation is the same that recently paid…you guessed it….$10 million for the first suborbital space flight a few years back.  X PRIZE is dedicated to offering large amounts of money to make huge leaps for humanity.

Read the rest of this entry »

Flex Fuel is Cheaper but you get bad gas mileage and you cannot go as far on a tank of gas.  What’s the deal with Flex Fuel.  You see those big suv’s rocking the little badge on the back, but what exactly is “Flex Fuel.”  Well Flex Fuel is also know as E85.  The “E” is short for Ethanol which make up 85% of the mix, the rest is gasoline. Read the rest of this entry »