10 Most Surprising Places to Find Petroleum
About one quarter of the oil consumed in this country is used for industrial purposes. Plastic production is the most obvious example, as awareness grows of the harm plastic does to the earth and people shun the material when they can.
But oil has permeated more of our lives than most people realize. Here, the most surprising places you’ll find oil, in some form, as a key ingredient:
1.
Five fun sports cars with surprisingly high mpg
My Miata: A sunny day, a bright red MX-5 with a
retractable hardtop. Heaven! (Photo: Jim Motavalli )
Can a “green” car also be fun? Definitely so. Consider the word “hybrid” does not add any magic properties. Cars that get 30 mpg are created equal, hybrid or not.
Here’s my top five list of green (or greenish) cars that are also affordable and fun to drive. Being a
Can you charge an electric car with an iPhone? (Yes)
The electric Smart car in New York: an iPhone app
gives you a state-of-charge reading.
(Smart USA photo)
One of the cool things about electric cars is that they neatly sync with the technology that we carry around in our pockets.
I remember thinking it inconceivable that such a thing as a cell phone could exist, and also that we’d never have practical plug-in vehicles. Now we have both,
