If you've visited a tire shop or taken in your car for service at the dealer lately, you've probably been asked if you wanted your tires filled with nitrogen and wondered if it was just a way for the ...

The topic of filling a vehicle's tires with nitrogen instead of just plain compressed air is not new. When this option was first available to drivers, it was met with skepticism, but then it just ...

Keeping our tires in good working condition is an important responsibility for the everyday driver. To get the most miles out of your tires, routine maintenance and making sure your tires, suspension, ...

Filling one's tires with nitrogen is one of those things, like rubbing cheetah's blood on your engine block, that's taken on almost mythological status among gearheads. The inert gas nitrogen is given ...

As a follow-up to my column regarding nitrogen use in tires, this from John MacBain, Ph.D: "Nitrogen obeys the same universal gas law as oxygen, hydrogen and every other gas known to man. Both ...

Dear EarthTalk: Is using nitrogen to inflate my car’s tires really better for the environment than using air? And if so, how?-- Roger Mawdsley, Abbotsville, BC Whether or not it makes environmental ...

One of the many special products offered to car owners to allow them to get more bang for their buck is nitrogen gas to fill their tires. But tires are tires. As long as they’re not filled with gravel ...

As a follow-up to my column regarding nitrogen use in tires, this from John MacBain, Ph.D: “Nitrogen obeys the same universal gas law as oxygen, hydrogen, and every other gas known to man. Both ...

Nitrogen is not some magic gas with mystical properties, nor is it some philosopher's stone capable of changing the properties of tire rubber. Yet, proponents say, relatively pure nitrogen is a ...