The state-run Chinese Petroleum Corpo

A recent patent from British Petroleum (BP) makes a disturbing admission: piston-engined aircraft need such high-octane fuel that tetraethyl lead is still added to it to keep its octane rating up. So

Waste hydrocarbons mixed with ethanol can be used to run vehicles

leaded petrol will be phased out across much of the developed world by the year 2005 in order to help reduce emissions of toxic heavy metals. The us, Canada and European countries pledged to

Petrol in Sweden will contain less sulphur than any in Europe by the year 2000. Swedish oil companies recently agreed to switch to petrol containing fewer than 50 parts sulphur per million (ppm).

Dumping sugar into the petrol

To enforce the use of unleaded petrol in existing two-and three-wheeler vehicles, the Supreme Court of India recently directed the Union government to submit a scheme for supply of unleaded petrol

The mandarins of the Indian science establishment have begun pushing the process of making the wonder fuel from water and herbs to its logical conclusion: patent and commercial exploitation, and the news has set the media aflame

A college dropout from a south Indian village, has produced a form of crude, low sulphur petroleum by mixing water and some herbs, shown that it can run engines in science labs and vehicles on the road and is now awaiting further research and a patent