I want to help Bush become less dependent on foreign oil, how about you, any ideas ?

Question

IdleAire is a new product available to truck drivers, as an alternative method of heating and cooling the cab area where drivers sleep when they take down time. A bridge type apertatus stretching the length of a truck stop parking lot has central Heat/AC
units for each parking spot. From the unit hangs a yellow tube about 16 inches in diameter, that snaps into a window adapter placed in the passenger side window. At the end of this tube is a computer screen, a satelite tv coaxle hookup, and plug ins for internet use as well as a vent for the warm-cool air to travel through. Members swipe their card, and set the temp. It costs $1.85 an hour. When a diesel engine idles, it uses 1.4 gallons per hour, at $2.50 per gallon. If Idleaire were made available and were required for all drivers to use during their 10 hour D.O.T. required downtime, this country would curb diesel use by at least 1/2 a million barrels per day during weekdays. Imagine how much of an effect that would have on prices!

Answer 1

Sweetie, I am a truck driver and this sounds like a blatant advertisement for IdleAire. Boy do you guys push that stuff!
We have an A.P.U. unit on our rig, installed by the company. It runs AC and Heat off the diesel fuel for about one .5 gallons an hours (rather than just idling the engine). It's highly efficient and far cheaper than your product.

IdleAire is just a cause of "too late guys."

As for the other "benefits" of it, they are far outweighed by the negatives. IdleAire truck stops can hold FAR fewer trucks than a normally paved lot (which forces more and more drivers to park on the on/off ramps of freeways and in other dangerous areas) and the nose-in parking is quite frankly irritating.
I have a wireless card in my laptop that lets me access my email and such, so we do not use IdleAire.

Answer 2

Perhaps we can take a lesson from the Brazilian govt. They are virtually independent of any outside oil source. Due to their research,they are running their vehicles on an alcohol/methanol mixture. Sugar cane grown in their country is processed into an alcohol/methanol mixture. The sugar cane is grown specifically for that purpose. Either Chevy,or Ford is supplying the vehicles especially made to accept this new fuel. And many Euro imports are jumping in with their versions of the vehicle.

Answer 3

Wow, I didn't know this at all -- about the idleaire. What a great invention.

I would like to see our country to work on more ways bio-fuels can be integrated into the automotive industry.

Also all vehicles should have solar panels to fill a reserve electrical fuel capability that can prevent batteries from going dead and to propel the car.

I would also like to get my flux capacitor working and process my trash as fuel like Doc Brown did in Back to the Future. Now there is a solution to two big problems!

Answer 4

That is really amazing. I will tell my brother about it. He is a truck driver, and so is my uncle. As for me, I drive a 4 cylinder car that gets 450 miles on a tank of gas, and it holds a little over 11 gallons. I get my tuneup and oil changed as recommended, and check my tires. I have these little air caps on my air valves that tell me if the tires are getting low on air. My next car will be a hybrid.

Answer 5

ya i got tired of buying gas last year and foreign oil so i got me a diesel car and a conversion kit and now it runs on used vegetable oil i start it on diesel then flip a switch and then it runs on 100%used vegetable oil all day i get the oil free from restaurants most of it is from the bins out back i go there at night and i take what i need and at home i pour it in a filter bag then in a 5 gallon pot and i heat it up some to get any water out then i pour it in a 15 gallon tank in my trunk it works great i get around 1,700 miles at of 9 gallons of diesel

Answer 6

Bush is way ahead of the oil independence game, pushing us into a Hydrogen energy economy. He's been working on this for years but the media are silent about it.

I am really curious to see IdleAire in action. Does it have a web site?

Answer 7

Yea that would make an impact.
I dont know if any of you areup on this but...
This process could replace all foreign bought oil and clean up the
environment at the same time..
Check out this on thermal depolymerazation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_depolymerization

Answer 8

searching an option gas and increasing gas mileage on our autos has develop right into a need. even if its Ethanol or another frame of mind to power, the time has come to fund efforts to regulate our strategies and reduce drastically down at using fossil fuels. global warming is one reason to make this change, as well as our helplessness contained in the face of the profiteering oil cartels. notwithstanding, even with is determined upon, there'll be repercussions. If Ethanol is perfected instead gas, with authorities-subsidized help in replacing our gas stations into places that provide this option, the cost of gas would bypass down, notwithstanding the cost of food would upward push, because corn and corn syrup are utilized in this variety of tremendous number of strategies. We is also replacing one set of issues for yet another. Already western farmers are gearing as a lot as develop into the subsequent gas barons. for sure, there are different strategies of manufacturing Ethanol as well utilizing corn, with using grasses, and so on., yet corn would properly be accessible in large parts alongside our Corn Belt. Brazil makes use of sugar cane, which isn't a answer for us. We also ought to guage the outcomes on the countries providing us with oil. If we modify from oil to an option gas, the Saudi Sheiks would now no longer savour gold-plated bathing room furniture. The economies of center jap countries matter upon our use of oil, notwithstanding it type of feels that various the income bypass to its leaders, with little or no of the money reaching the person-friendly human beings. Economically, this variety of change would even fireplace up extra turmoil contained in the middle East and in places like Venezuela, which substances us with oil. yet, environmentally, this variety of change might want to benefit each and every usa contained in the international, because we are the volume one criminal contained in the launch of carbons into the ambience.

Answer 9

Decalre Iraq a U.S. state. Therefore their oil will become domestic supply.