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Reduced Oil Imports Helping Deficit - Imagine If USA Used No Gasoline - WOW!

Reduced Oil Imports Helping Deficit - Imagine If USA Used No Gasoline - WOW!

Oil net imports have declined since 2011, with their value falling slower than volume Source: U.S. Census Bureau: Foreign Trade Division The drop in net imports of oil (crude and petroleum products combined) was the major contributor to the United States reaching its lowest net trade deficit in November 2013 since 2009 ... Continue reading

Find Out Which Sustainable Technologies Make Sense for Your Business at The Work Truck Show 2014 Green Truck Ride-and-Drive

Find Out Which Sustainable Technologies Make Sense for Your Business at The Work Truck Show 2014 Green Truck Ride-and-Drive

Fleet operators planning for the future can save time this year by trying out 23 sustainable technology vehicles in one place during the Green Truck Ride-and-Drive at The Work Truck Show® 2014. Every vehicle is available for test-drives on city streets and in a new closed-access course, providing Show attendees with ... Continue reading

Global Bioenergies Partners with Audi on Drop-in Biofuel

Global Bioenergies Partners with Audi on Drop-in Biofuel

Global Bioenergies (Paris:ALGBE) announces the signature of a collaboration with the German car-manufacturer Audi on the development of isobutene-derived isooctane, a high performance biofuel for gasoline engines. Global Bioenergies, a NYSE Alternext Paris listed company (ALGBE), is a pioneer in the development of proc ... Continue reading

BIO Thanks Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA) for Legislation to Extend Current Tax Policies

BIO Thanks Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA) for Legislation to Extend Current Tax Policies

The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today expressed thanks to Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) for introducing the Second Generation Biofuel Extension Act of 2013, which provides a one-year extension of the Second Generation Biofuel Producer Credit and the Special Allowance for Second Generation Biofuel Plant Pro ... Continue reading

2014 Volkswagen Passat TDI Carey Russ Review

2014 Volkswagen Passat TDI Carey Russ Review

DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WITH CAREY RUSS 2014 Volkswagen Passat TDI Review Volkswagen's latest Passat has been the success that eluded its predecessors. Compared to previous versions, it's larger, more conservatively styled, and made in America for the North American market, at a new facility in Chattanooga, TN. That may ... Continue reading

EPA Continues Anti-American Path With Proposed Changes To Alt Fuel Impetus RFS

EPA Continues Anti-American Path With Proposed Changes To Alt Fuel Impetus RFS

2014 RFS proposal will increase use of oil and associated emissions WASHINGTON DC December 10, 2013; The 2014 proposed rule for the Renewable Fuel Standard, which would for the first time cut biofuel use, will require using more petroleum and increase emissions of greenhouse gases. The Biotechnology Industry Organizati ... Continue reading

EPA Continues Backtracking On Alt Fuels - Why Don't They Want To Free America From Big Oil Cartel

EPA Continues Backtracking On Alt Fuels - Why Don't They Want To Free America From Big Oil Cartel

Biodiesel Supporters to Voice RFS Concerns with EPA Proposed Volumes Would Cause Plant Shutdowns, Layoffs WASHINGTON December 4, 2013; Nearly two dozen representatives of the U.S. biodiesel industry are slated to testify at an EPA hearing Thursday about the threat to their businesses and surrounding communities under t ... Continue reading

Renewable Energy Group Expands Presence in Northeast with Another New Jersey Terminal

Renewable Energy Group Expands Presence in Northeast with Another New Jersey Terminal

Biodiesel producer and marketer Renewable Energy Group®, Inc. , announced today it has entered into an agreement with Dutch Hill Terminals, a leading heating oil terminal in New Jersey, to market biodiesel and biodiesel blended heating oil at its Clifton, New Jersey location. ... Continue reading

American Farmers Harvesting Biomass for Project LIBERTY Opening

American Farmers Harvesting Biomass for Project LIBERTY Opening

Cob bales delivered in 2013-14 will be used to produce cellulosic ethanol EMMETSBURG, IOWA (Oct. 23, 2013) – Farmers are now harvesting and delivering cob bales for the 2014 opening of Project LIBERTY in Emmetsburg, Iowa. Project LIBERTY is POET-DSM’s 20 million-gallon-per-year cellulosic bio-ethanol plant un ... Continue reading

Bently Biofuels Acquires Bay Area Grease Collection Company

Bently Biofuels Acquires Bay Area Grease Collection Company

SAN FRANCISCO--In August 2013, Nevada-based biodiesel producer Bently Biofuels Company expanded their used cooking oil collection program by purchasing the assets of Got Grease?, a Bay Area waste oil and grease trap pumping company. Got Grease? collected used cooking oil throughout the San Francisco peninsula, East Bay ... Continue reading

SeQuential Pacific Biodiesel Produces 20 Millionth Gallon of Fuel, Teams Up With University of Oregon

SeQuential Pacific Biodiesel Produces 20 Millionth Gallon of Fuel, Teams Up With University of Oregon

SeQuential Pacific Biodiesel, the longest-running commercial biodiesel producer in the Pacific Northwest, announces the production of its 20 millionth gallon of clean-burning, locally produced fuel, a milestone in the company's 8 years of business in Oregon and Washington. ... Continue reading

2014 Mercedes GLK-Class BlueTEC (Diesel) Review By Thom Cannell

2014 Mercedes GLK-Class BlueTEC (Diesel) Review By Thom Cannell

2013 GLK250 BlueTEC 4MATIC_ (14) No one has offered diesel cars in the US longer than Mercedes. Their latest diesel, the 2014 GLK-Class, gets an updated exterior, interior, and a diesel engine that costs less than the premium V-6—while delivering better fuel economy and more torque. We’re very excited about t ... Continue reading

USA Alt Fuel Auto Loans Resume

USA Alt Fuel Auto Loans Resume

U.S. to Revive $25 Billion Auto Loan Program A U.S. alternative-vehicle loan program criticized by Republican lawmakers for financing two failed startups will resume marketing to industry groups and possible applicants, an Energy Department spokeswoman said yesterday. Bloomberg reports that the $25 billion Advanced Tec ... Continue reading

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