(Just in time for $3+ gallon gasoline...)

Note:  Yes, there are some TRICK questions!  Circle the T or F for true or false.

1.  Electric vehicles (EV’s) are simply not practical for our day-to-day transportation needs.
T/F

2.  A country the size of the United States in the Western Hemisphere no longer imports any oil to run its cars/trucks.
T/F

3.  Hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles are being manufactured today for the average motorist though they are still expensive and lack fueling stations.
T/F

4.  The term “peak oil” refers to the world (or a particular country) reaching the zenith (top) of  its production, until new sources of crude can be developed or found.
T/F

5.  The diesel engine was invented to run on peanut oil.
T/F

6.  We continue to import most of our oil from the Middle East, one reason we must stay in Iraq.
T/F

7.  Without thousands of service stations nationwide, we would not be able to adequately fuel our passenger vehicles.
T/F

8.  If there is a shortage of gasoline there is no fuel which can substitute in most ICE’s (internal combustion engines) that won’t destroy or possibly disable the engine.
T/F

9.  Hybrid vehicles that travel at highway speeds can use less gasoline per miles traveled than hybrids that travel at lower speeds on surface streets.
T/F

10.  You can make a safe fuel in your own garage for less than $1 a gallon.
T/F

11. If you wanted to drive a car that didn’t use ANY gasoline as fuel  tomorrow, you would have to (1) buy a new car, such as a diesel or (2) spend at least $5000 to order a system that would allow you to manufacture your own fuel.
T/F

12.  The Chinese ride millions of bicycles from home to work etc. and will not need very many cars until their society becomes much more industrialized like ours.
T/F

13.  The main reasons gasoline prices have recently spiked are  (1) ethanol is scarce at this time as an additive; (2) there are no new refineries being built and (3) there is fear of an Iran oil embargo, among other factors.
T/F

14.  Over half of all the world’s readily available oil reserves have been exhausted by industrial man over the past century.
T/F

15.  Solar (PV) will never be viable as a single source of electrical generation in the United States because there is not enough open space to site the panels.
T/F

16.  Before the Iraq War, Californians relied on one Middle Eastern country for 28% of its crude oil imports.
T/F

17.  Even if you wanted to support an oil company that is NOT interested in gouging consumers, there is no service station where you can buy its gasoline because all stations use blends.
T/F

18.  Saudi Arabia has the world’s greatest provable oil reserves, and there is no other country in the world that could ever exceed it.
T/F

19.  Biofuels may be more sustainable but burning them creates CO2 and contributes to global warming--so they are nearly as bad as burning oil.
T/F

20.  A country in the Western Hemisphere has had to live without most oil for 15 years, yet still has cars and trucks and roads.
T/F

21. Gas prices in the U.S. are approaching those of European nations like Denmark, the Netherlands and England.
T/F

22.  Running cars with ethanol is an idea that has been around about five years, just like hybrid cars have.
T/F

23.  There is no such thing as a completely non-polluting car (post-manufacturing).  All cars release some CO2, particulates or nitrous oxides--or the manufacturing of the fuel itself is dirty.
T/F

24.  U.S. auto makers have twice missed the ball in designing cars that use less fuel--during the 70’s oil embargo, and most recently around 2000 when the first Japanese hybrids were made
T/F

25.  If the world starts to run low on oil, by that time (?) alternative technologies will have been perfected to replace it.
T/F

Answers

20-25 Right--Go to the head of the class and become my associate!
15-19  Right--You’re probably ready to buy a hybrid, or begin doing biodiesel...
10-14  Right--Pretty good for someone still driving a gas guzzler!
5-9 Right--Get used to those gas lines, ‘cause that’s where you’ll be for quite a spell
0-4 Right--You could really care less about this subject--and might even work for Big Oil or Detroit