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Sorry to Say Mr. President But You Are Supporting The Bad Guys With Your "All Of The Above" Energy Plan

Sorry to Say Mr. President But You Are Supporting The Bad Guys With Your "All Of The Above" Energy Plan

February 23, 2012 Remarks by the President on Energy University of Miami Miami, Florida THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Miami! (Applause.) The U! (Applause.) It is good to see all of you here today. (Applause.) I want to thank Erica for that outstanding introduction. She said her parents were tweeting. (Laughter.) We’re so ... Continue reading

AP Fact Check - Gingrich Energy Ads Err on Facts

AP Fact Check - Gingrich Energy Ads Err on Facts

DINA CAPPIELLO, Associated Press – 25 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) — A 28-minute political ad offers a candidate something sound bites can never capture — a chance to explore a subject in depth. But in the case of Newt Gingrich's unusual extended commercial on American energy policy, it just means more ti ... Continue reading

Cool Planet BioFuels Announces a Major Advance in Renewable Cellulosic Gasoline

Cool Planet BioFuels Announces a Major Advance in Renewable Cellulosic Gasoline

CAMARILLO, Calif., Feb 22, 2012; Cool Planet BioFuels announced today that it has made a major breakthrough in converting biomass to gasoline. The Company achieved 4,000 gallons/acre biomass to gasoline conversion in pilot testing using giant miscanthus, an advanced bioenergy crop. Gasoline has about one and a half tim ... Continue reading

3M and Chesapeake Energy Corporation Partner to Create New CNG Tank Technology

3M and Chesapeake Energy Corporation Partner to Create New CNG Tank Technology

3M and Chesapeake Energy Corporation today announced an agreement to collaborate in designing, manufacturing and marketing a broad portfolio of compressed natural gas (CNG) tanks for use in all sectors of the United States transportation market. Currently the fuel tank on a CNG vehicle is its most expensive single comp ... Continue reading

How Do You Like Gasoline Prices Now, America? Are You Ready to Do Something About It?

How Do You Like Gasoline Prices Now, America? Are You Ready to Do Something About It?

You must like being smacked around by Ahmadinejad and OPEC By Marc J. Rauch Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher THE AUTO CHANNEL Oil and gasoline prices are going up, again. And this time the rise could very well take us to $5.00 per gallon and beyond. Why? For no reason other than greed and because those in charge of th ... Continue reading

Mercedes 906 Engine Diesel to CNG Coversion Available

Mercedes 906 Engine Diesel to CNG Coversion Available

Leading CNG vehicle companies partner to bring the first EPA-certified, diesel to CNG conversion package for the Mercedes 906 Engine to market. Alexandria, Virginia & New Brunswick, New Jersey --February 14, 2012; Sunny DeWakar, CEO of NGV Motori, USA and Dean Sloane, Founder and Managing Director of Clean Vehicle Solu ... Continue reading

GM Turns Some Attention Back to CNG with 1,200 Chevrolet Van Order from AT&T +VIDEO

GM Turns Some Attention Back to CNG with 1,200 Chevrolet Van Order from AT&T +VIDEO

Finally, an "American" automaker remembers Compressed Natural Gas DETROIT - January 30, 2012: AT&T plans to take delivery of 1,200 Chevrolet Express compressed natural gas (CNG) dedicated cargo vans to be deployed to AT&T service centers nationwide. It is the largest-ever order of CNG vehicles from General Motors. AT&T ... Continue reading

EQT Helps Accelerate the Use of Natural Gas Vehicles by Awarding Grants to Non-Profit Organizations

EQT Helps Accelerate the Use of Natural Gas Vehicles by Awarding Grants to Non-Profit Organizations

EQT Corporation today announced that the EQT Foundation awarded more than $900,000 in grants to five Pittsburgh area non-profit organizations to support community programming and promote the use of Natural Gas Vehicles (NGVs). 'These organizations are working hard to promote goodwill throughout our community. “These o ... Continue reading

NGVAmerica Applauds President for Urging More Use of Natural Gas in Transportation

NGVAmerica Applauds President for Urging More Use of Natural Gas in Transportation

NGVAmerica, the trade association that represents the U.S. natural gas vehicle industry, hailed President Obama's call today for using more natural gas in the transportation sector. The President made this call at a United Parcel Service (UPS) facility in Las Vegas when he discussed his clean energy blueprint, first an ... Continue reading

President Obama's Support of Natural Gas Vehicles and LNG Fueling Corridors for Trucking at Las Vegas UPS Depot Strengthens Prospects for Broad Deployment, Says Clean Energy

President Obama's Support of Natural Gas Vehicles and LNG Fueling Corridors for Trucking at Las Vegas UPS Depot Strengthens Prospects for Broad Deployment, Says Clean Energy

President Barack Obama spoke yesterday at the UPS Depot in Las Vegas, Nevada promoting natural gas-fueled trucking as part of his “Blueprint for an economy that's built to last," unveiled at his January 24 “State of the Union" address to Congress, according to Clean Energy Fuels Corp. , the leading provider of natura ... Continue reading

Obama to Give LIVE Energy Speech Today 5:30PM EST - WATCH IT RIGHT HERE

Obama to Give LIVE Energy Speech Today 5:30PM EST - WATCH IT RIGHT HERE

Although we predict that this Obama speech will be just more empty promises and political double-talk, let's see what he has to say AUTO CENTRAL - January 26, 2012: An email blast from T. Boone Pickens this morning states that Barack Obama's speech this afternoon at 5:30PM EST will be exciting because Obama's new energ ... Continue reading

CNG Promoted As Alt Fuel Solution in Texas

CNG Promoted As Alt Fuel Solution in Texas

Texas Clean Transportation Triangle Emphasizes Private Investment, Encourages Deployment of Natural Gas Vehicles Across State AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 24, 2012 Sen. Tommy Williams' landmark natural gas vehicle legislation, passed by the 2011 Texas Legislature, will pave the way for wider-scale deployment of lower cost, clea ... Continue reading

HyperSolar to Make Zero Carbon Renewable Hydrogen Gas

HyperSolar to Make Zero Carbon Renewable Hydrogen Gas

HyperSolar, Inc. (OTCBB: HYSR), the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen and natural gas using water and solar power, today announced that its proprietary process can make zero carbon, renewable hydrogen gas. Rather than using conventional fossil fuel, such as natural gas, as a feedstock ... Continue reading

Boone Pickens: Washington Politicians Are Supporting Big Oil In Cheating Americans

Boone Pickens: Washington Politicians Are Supporting Big Oil In Cheating Americans

In 2011, the U.S. imported 4.1 billion barrels of petroleum accounting for 60% of the U.S. supply. The total cost of those imports was $453.6 billion. That represents an increase in cost of 34.6% over 2010 and a whopping increase of 71.8% over 2009. In the election cycle of 2008, virtually every candidate for every fed ... Continue reading

Clean Energy Unveils Backbone Network for America's Natural Gas Highway

Clean Energy Unveils Backbone Network for America's Natural Gas Highway

SEAL BEACH, Calif.--The route plan for the first phase of 150 new LNG fueling stations for America's Natural Gas Highway (ANGH) was unveiled today by Clean Energy Fuels Corp. , the leading provider of natural gas fuel for transportation in North America. The company has identified 98 locations and anticipates having 70 ... Continue reading

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