True to its title, Green Transportation Basics by Dan Chiras (New Society Publishers, 2010) provides information on everything you need to know about sustainable cars and driving. Covering hybrids, ...

Unless you've been hiding out under a rock in some foreign country, you probably know about the grassroots movement associated with fueling diesel-powered vehicles with recycled vegetable oil. SVO ...

Between school, work and errands, James Colver estimates he drives more than 2,400 miles each month in his diesel-fueled Mercedes. Yet the Issaquah resident spends only about $75 a month on fuel. How ...

With diesel fuel approaching $4 a gallon in the East Valley, some motorists with diesel engines are converting their vehicles to run on vegetable oil. Charlie Anderson, president of Golden Fuel ...

Home mechanics have been pouring vegetable oil into engines for years, sometimes in the fuel tank, sometimes straight into ...

Now your car can be a vegetarian, too. Instead of driving autos that slurp up fossil fuels – the liquefied remains of ancient plants and animals – a small but growing cadre of enthusiasts are ...

In the span of just two years, Justin Carven invented the first waste-oil conversion kit for diesel engines, graduated from Hampshire College, drove a vegetable-oil-fueled van across the country, and ...

People who convert diesel cars and trucks to run on vegetable oil face no special licensing or registration requirements in Washington, according to the state Department of Licensing. In fact, ...