Face it; we're all worried about rising gas prices, but it's not just about driving to and from work without breaking the bank. Yes, gas prices have risen past three dollars gallon, but it's not just each driver who is affected.

In fact, rising gas prices affect everything about our economy. Food prices, consumer goods just about everything has gone up. It's a sad fact that rising gas prices have negatively impacted the economy as a whole.

However, there may be one "positive" outcome to rising gas prices. Simply, we as consumers had to think about alternative fuels when we have not had to before. Gone are the days when we've simply been able to mindlessly rely on fossil fuels as past generations have done. Previously, we've only given the briefest of nods to renewable energy sources or other alternative energy sources such as biodiesel or water fuel.

Today, though, these alternative fuel sources have come to the forefront, simply because we must pay attention to them.

Both biodiesel fuels and water fuel provide renewable and environmentally friendly energy sources for us to power our cars with; these energy sources are available today and can have a significantly positive impact on both our pocketbooks and the environment.

Biodiesel fuels are manufactured by utilizing plant sources such as corn to produce oils; these oils are then burned as fuel. Alternatively, used cooking oils have also been used in biodiesel, which is a great way to reduce waste. Because biodiesel fuels are renewable and can be somewhat cleaner burning than fossil fuels, they can provide a much better alternative to fossil fuels when we power our cars.

Water fuel is yet another way to stretch our fossil fuel resources. You need to utilize gas to some extent with water fuel, but this technology will give you much more mileage per gallon of gas than you would have without it.

When you utilize water fuel, you will roughly double the mileage you get from your gasoline. When you install the conversion kit in your car, a battery's electric current "burns" water to give you a very efficient fuel. This technology has been around for some time, but is now becoming more popular because customers want to get more out of each gallon of gas they buy.

Biodiesel fuel has a couple of drawbacks to it at present. It is renewable, but it does produce some pollution. There are also some concerns about its usefulness as a renewable energy source. At present, it has been suggested that more fossil fuel is used during biodiesel production than is actually saved by using biodiesel in lieu of gas. This may make water fuel a better source than biodiesel is at present.

However, should you not have access to water fuel conversion kits, biodiesel is a fine choice, especially if it can be obtained from used cooking oils, for example. In addition, as technology advances, biodiesel will likely not be produced by utilizing fossil fuels, but by using alternative fuels as well.

In spite of concerns such as those addressed above, our days of fossil fuels reliance in indiscriminate fashion must come to an end. Even though rising gas prices may be inconvenient, they are also a way to get us to pay attention to the fact that we need to change our behavior.

Biodiesel fuels and water fuels are two alternative energy sources that can help us save the environment and our own pocketbooks as well.