New Tires Made From Orange Peel Oil Now For Sale (VIDEO)

http://earth911.com/blog/2009/07/09/new-tires-made-of-oil-from-orange-peels/:

Tire manufacturer Yokohama is now selling a model made with 80 percent non-petroleum material, substituting orange oil as the primary ingredient to make vulcanized rubber.

Read the whole story: http://earth911.com/blog/2009/07/09/new-tires-made-of-oil-from-orange-peels/

Comments

[SCG]

Interesting.

[katooom]

Tires in the picture are BRIDGESTONE F1 Race tires!
You can bet they are not made of orange peels!

[BannedNBoston]

How many tires could be made from hemp oil?
Canola Oil 133 gallons per acre.
Hemp oil 1,000 gallons per acre.
1 MILLION GALLONS per thousand acres.

[cbates]

Who is on the cutting edge?

[NetworkGuy]

They should try hemp oil next. Would give a whole new meaning to 'smoking your tires'.

[ReedYoung]

Why not hemp fiber, too? It's the strongest rope material, and could be distributed more evenly through the tire rubber than the thick steel wires used in most tires, so I wouldn't be surprised if a hemp-belted radial tire could be made stronger than a steel-belted radial tire.

[Weirdwriter]

Wonder what they smell like...

[ranchomerced]

Wait till they start the tire blow out lawsuits with all the illegal mexican passenger vans here in AZ.

[Zeebob]

Should read "made WITH" not made from, makes it sound like there is some high percentage of the oil, but its just added giving better traction.

[ReedYoung]

Where are you getting that? The article:

[
Tire manufacturer Yokohama is now selling a model made with 80 percent non-petroleum material, substituting orange oil as *the primary ingredient* to make vulcanized rubber...
“It also helps consumers save money at the gas pump by improving fuel efficiency via a 20-percent reduction in rolling resistance.”
]

[ErnestineBass]

Cool. My little truck will be needing a set of tires next year...

[Dodgeyaussie]

Hmm.. gives new meaning to the term "peeling out"

[NWProgressive]

After I stopped laughing, I wanted to smack you for such a bad joke. :)