Fuel Saving Tips For US Car Hire by Fiona Hiliard

With fuel prices at an all time high and the demand for cheap Florida holidays rocketing, US car hire customers will be looking for the most fuel-efficient ways to get them to their sunny destination this summer.

The convenient nature of the on-site petrol pump is one of the main reasons why so many car hire customers choose to fill-up their tank at their pick-up garage rather than at the local petrol station located just around the corner. However, prominent travel experts are advising travellers to think twice about purchasing petrol at the point of collection. Bruce Williams, a contributor to US publication Springfield Business Journal recently reported on a reader who wondered whether it was more expensive to fill up their rental car at their car hire outlet, prior to driving off or at a local petrol station.

Williams came to the conclusion that purchasing petrol from a rental company is not a good idea in many cases, since most car hire companies sell the same petrol that is available at any station but at a much higher price than usual. Williams also recognizes that the vast majority of car renters will leave at least a few gallons of gasoline in the car's tank when the vehicle is returned. He says purchasing over-priced fuel from rental firm is less worth it for those who do not intend to drive long distances. Williams suggests that those planning to go on longer road trips should find filling up at a rental outlet to be the most sensible option, especially if the driver believes that they will use the complete tank of gas and if there is the possibility that petrol stations may be few and far between on off-the beaten track routes.

Continuing on the 'more drive for your dollar' theme, the following is a list of eight of the world's most cost-effective and fuel-efficient cars.

The world's most fuel-efficient cars:

1. Honda Civic GX

The Honda Civic GX is fueled by compressed natural gas and travel about 170 miles on one fill up.

2. Toyota Prius

The Toyota Prius is the vehicle of choice of the carbon footprint conscience set. Deceptively spacious, the original eco car qualifies as a mid-sized sedan.

3. Honda Civic Hybrid

The Civic Hybrid uses electric motors to help power its 1.3 litre engine.

4. Toyota Camry Hybrid

A battery pack is the key to the Camry's fuel efficiency

5. Nissan Altima Hybrid

The Nissan Altima Hybrid is a product of the same hybrid technology as the Toyota Camry Hybrid.

6. Ford Escape Hybrid

This spacious four-wheel drive is the most fuel efficient SUV of its kind.

7. Smart For Two

This nifty little model more than makes up for its lack of legroom by leading the field in terms of fuel efficiency. The Smart For Two's small 1.0 three-cylinder engine ensures that a little petrol goes a long way.

8. Toyota Yaris

Toyota's budget offering fills a money-saving role that used to be taken up by the Corolla and offers excellent value for money.

About the Author

Fiona writes for Argus Rentals and Car Hire Orlando.

Hydrogen Powered Engines �" Available For Your Car Today by GARKO NOVIS

Hydrogen is broadly viewed by people, as well as, by many large corporations, as acure-all to smog, global warming and shrinking petroleum supplies. (Incidentally, the whole “peak oil” scare is just that… a scare with no substance. There are no diminishing petroleum supplies and the whole “peak oil” thing is a hoax) Even Bush has spoken using great superlatives about the potentials for hydrogen. In his 2003 State of the Union Address he rhapsodized, "The first vehicle driven by a child born today could be fueled by hydrogen and pollution free." What is most amazing of that assertion though, is that the first automobile ever invented, two centuries ago was fueled by hydrogen and caused no smog! !! Hydrogen is doesn’t create energy it only carries it and it must be produced from a an initial source of energy, such as electricity, natural gas, coal, nuclear fuel, wind or solar radiation. But the best solution for generating hydrogen is by use of electrolysis. A Hydrogen On Demand setup! This kind of a system is very simple and direct. It uses an electrolyzer, through which a tiny electrical impulse is passed through water, which simply splits the water into hydrogen and oxygen. Petroleum engineers predict that worldwide petroleum availability will hit its peak in 10 to 30 years. It’s not true. But even if it was true, we can stretch the availability of oil indefinitely by doing a couple of different things. Primary is to do an installation in your current car engine of a converter to enable your vehicle to run on a combination of gas and hydrogen. Recently Bush has been moaning about how we are “addicted to oil”, I am positive he is referring to himself only. He is addicted to having his decision process fixated on the greatest good of his Big Oil company exec pals who are some of the most callous and dishonest greedy robber barons that anyone ever had anything to do with. When predicts for us that perhaps in the future we will drive cars that are powered on hydrogen look him squarely in the television screen and shout back “thanks for thinking of me, bro, but we have it here today! Didn’t you know?” If not a fully hydrogen engine operating on hydrogen on its own then at least a hybrid. That exists in thousands of American cars today and in other countries too and you can install it in your vehicle in the next day or two. Would you like me to tell you how? WATER4GAS is offering information for a nominal fee which consumers can use at home to create a small gizmo which instills hydrogen into the fuel/air mixture that their automobile runs on. What this does is make bite sized particles out of the particles that the system burns as fuel. So it is able to use much more of the fuel. With WATER4GAS you can reasonably expect to reduce your gasoline consumption by thirty to fifty percent or even more. Those particles must have been pretty "blankin'" huge in some engines before. But with W4G they are made consumable so you can reduce your gasoline consumption. It also helps make emissions significantly cleaner. This information has been purchased by over 9000 car owners already and the percentage of happy customers is about 99%! So how about you?

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GARKO shows you how to improve your fuel economy by up to 1/3rd or more at the gas pump and that you can save on fuel consumption by making your car run on water

Electric Car Advocates Accuse California Board Of Trying To Kill The Electric Car by GARKO NOVIS

EV (Electric Vehicle) advocates assert that the California Air Resources Board is seeking to crush the electric car - again. There is a proposal presently under review before the Air Resources Board state regulators would slice - from seventyfive thousand to as few as twenty seven thousand and five hundred - the number of zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) automakers must make between 2012 and 2017. If this proposal passes, the big car manufacturers could place fewer than 2,500 non-polluting cars on the road between now and 2012. That is just three hundred more than Tesla Motors expects to produce in the next two. "That's disgusting," says Zan Dubin Scott of Plug In America an EV advocacy group. "That is a kidney punch to the ZEV program." California adopted the requirement in 1990 to dictate how many emissions-free vehicles car manufacturers must produce. The board has updated it four times, the last time being 4 years ago �" at which time it substantially slashed the amount of ZEVs that would be out on the road. EV advocates slammed the board for killing the electric car and now they say that they are trying to do it once again. The board responded that it remains determined to convert to pollution-free autmobiles but they say the technology isn’t there yet. They prefer to let the car manufacturing corporations push plug-in hybrids, compressed natural gas automobiles and other green tech while it completes research on batteries and hydrogen fuel cells. Regulators assert the ultimate goal doesn't change - beginning in 2018, 16 percent of vehicles sold in California must be zero emissions vehicles. Emphasizing plug-in hybrids and other alternative tech partial zero emission vehicles" at the present time allows California to begin addressing reversing climate change while still at the same time pressuring car manufacturing companies to devise non-polluting vehicles. "It's about lessening emissions and getting more vehicles out on the road that emit less toxic emissions," says board spokesman Leo Kay. "Our ultimate goal is the viewpoint that 100% zero emission vehicles are the future for California. It's only a matter of how we get there and giving the car manufacturing companies some flexibility." No one argues plug-in hybrids are a big step in the right direction. But ZEV advocates insist they shouldn't come at the expense of pollution-free electric and fuel cell cars. "They should be forwarding both," says Spencer Quong of the Union of Concerned Scientists Only by doing that can California meet its stated objective of lessening greenhouse gas emissions to eighty percent of 1990 level by 2050. Achieving that target requires putting 379,000 zero emission vehicles on the road by 2020, Quong says. In my own opinion, with the information I have and I will show you how to access I see the whole contentious situation is a comedy due to a number of factors… 1. hybrid electric vehicles are a waste of a substantial amount of money and they have no advantage for the planet when they are driven on the highways only city driving 2. with the simple but potent answers that we make available at Water4Gas the whole discussion is moot. We already have the solution to the whole mess, we just need is to move it out onto more highly visible distribution channels. WATER4GAS is offering information at a low price which folks can use at home to put together a small gizmo which instills hydrogen into the gasoline/air mixture that their car runs on. The process makes bite sized particles out of the ones that the system uses as fuel. So the engine is able to use much more of the gasoline. By doing this you can reasonably expect to improve your gasoline mileage by thirty to fifty percent or significantly more. Those molecules "musta" been pretty "blankin'" big in some systems before. But with W4G they are made consumable so you can improve your gasoline mileage. It also helps to lower emissions significantly. This information has been purchased by over NINE THOUSAND car owners already and happy members number about 99%! So how about you?

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GARKO recommends hybrid engines as the best solution for money saver on gas and as an alternative in beating fuel prices