Diesel Fuel

I know how much time I spend around diesel-powered vehicles, equipment and machinery, and I'd bet that most farmers around the United States spend similar amounts. That's why I'm so alarmed at the recent news from the World Health Organization and its...

It wasn’t that long ago that everything seemed so simple: pump gas into your car, get behind the wheel and go. But as the internal combustion engine slowly but surely yields ground to alternative energy sources, sorting out the various...

The Department of Environmental Protection announced today that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has given authorization to grant two kinds of temporary fuel waivers due to fuel shortages from Hurricane Sandy. DEP requested on Friday that EPA...

Baltimore County Police reports say a man was robbed last week of his iPhone while he was sitting in a restaurant in Towson. According to police reports, the man was sitting at a table in a restaurant in the 500 block of York Road on Oct. 15 at about 7:...

PETOSKEY -- Mother Nature might not be as friendly toward Midwestern consumers' heating budgets for the 2012-13 winter as she was a year earlier, some observers of weather and heating cost trends predict. The U.S. Energy Information Administration...

Q: I am an 81-year-old Dodge Caliber owner and this vehicle rides worse than an army truck. Every line and joint in the road sounds and feels like a mini explosion. I made a mistake not taking this vehicle for a ride before I bought it. I have not...

 While a declaration that diesel exhaust fumes cause cancer set off ripples of concern in scientific, medical and diesel communities throughout the world, some in this area aren't too concerned with the findings.  For Gary Johnson, a diesel truck...

Bankrupt Swedish automaker Saab has found a new suitor; a Chinese-Japanese investment group wants to buy the brand and turn it into a builder of electric vehicles, according to sources who spoke with Reuters and Bloomberg News. The group formed......

The Fordson name had its beginning in 1917 when Henry Ford began building 6,000 Fordsons for the Ministry of Munitions in the United Kingdom. Tractors built by Ford were not formally called Fordson until this contract was signed, sealed and delivered....

UPDATE: The Kansas Department of Health and Environment tested a substance that authorities found spilled in an area at North Santa Fe and 7th Street in Salina. Test results show that the substance is Mercaptan, an odorant used to give natural gas a...

A healthy curiosity in mechanics has always fueled Guy Walker's passion for tractors. The 81-year-old Friedens native hardly seems to be slowing down with age, but instead combines his wealth of mechanical knowledge with a youthful exuberance to build his...

The driver of a tractor-trailer was critically injured Monday morning when his rig went down an embankment off Interstate 68 about five miles west of Hancock, Maryland State Police said. Lt. Tom Woodward said 26-year-old Victor Doros, of Wheeling, Ill.,...