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Claims of Ethanol Wrongs Always Make Me Write

Claims of Ethanol Wrongs Always Make Me Write

Writing about wrongs brings holiday cheer By Marc J. Rauch Author of "The Ethanol Papers." Earlier this month, the venerable St. Louis Post Dispatch website published an anti-ethanol editorial written by Stanford L. Levin, emeritus professor of economics at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. ... Continue reading

ExxonMobil Makes Tremendous Scientific Breakthrough - They've Discovered ALGAE!

ExxonMobil Makes Tremendous Scientific Breakthrough - They've Discovered ALGAE!

Who says that Big Oil isn't contributing to finding ways for America to become energy independent? They better start stamping out some more Nobel Science Awards in Sweden because the boys and girls at ExxonMobil have made what will probably be the greatest scientific discovery of all time (next to John Harvey Kellogg's ... Continue reading

Despite Truth It's a Long Road to Ending Ethanol Opposition

Despite Truth It's a Long Road to Ending Ethanol Opposition

The continuing struggle of ethanol advocacy vs. ethanol idiocy By Marc J. Rauch Author of THE ETHANOL PAPERS ... Continue reading

Looking for E15 But Can't Find It? Blend It Yourself!

Looking for E15 But Can't Find It? Blend It Yourself!

Get cleaner air and water; help make us energy independent; and save money all at the same time. ... Continue reading

New Internal Combustion Engine Runs Only On Water and Ethanol, NO GASOLINE +VIDEO

New Internal Combustion Engine Runs Only On Water and Ethanol, NO GASOLINE +VIDEO

May Mann Engine Runs On Water and Ethanol, Internal Combustion Engine Runs Only On Water and Ethanol ... Continue reading

More Clean Electric Car Bull... BMW Misses The Mark, Proposes Cleaning The Earth Using Cow Turds For EV Recharging Instead Of Green Renewable Flex-Fuel For Their Ultimate Driving Machines

More Clean Electric Car Bull... BMW Misses The Mark, Proposes Cleaning The Earth Using Cow Turds For EV Recharging Instead Of Green Renewable Flex-Fuel For Their Ultimate Driving Machines

WTF? BMW partnership will use dairy farm waste to feed more renewable energy into power grid. * When BMW owners plug in their cars to charge, they will be helping to bring new renewable energy to dairy farms throughout the state. ... Continue reading

2019 Los Angeles Auto Show

2019 Los Angeles Auto Show

The state of California is locked in battle with the US federal government. The Trump administration claims that the state does not have the right to set its own emission standards, leaving the auto industry divided. ... Continue reading

New Oak Ridge National Laboratory Study Of Sustainable Fuels

New Oak Ridge National Laboratory Study Of Sustainable Fuels

A technology developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and scaled up by Vertimass LLC to convert ethanol into fuels suitable for aviation, shipping and other heavy-duty applications can be price-competitive with conventional fuels while retaining the sustainability benefits of bio-based ... Continue reading

Interest In RASA A H2 Fuel Cell EV Is Growing According To Manufacturer

Interest In RASA A H2 Fuel Cell EV Is Growing According To Manufacturer

Interest surges in clean solutions to transport In the last few weeks, clean mobility, and hydrogen as part of it, has had a crescendo of interest and Riversimple has been very involved in the zero-emission conversation, from award nominations to media coverage, new events and podcasts. As concern about the climate cri ... Continue reading

California Shuns Gas-Powered Cars (Except For Public Safety Vehicles) Sues EPA

California Shuns Gas-Powered Cars (Except For Public Safety Vehicles) Sues EPA

Starting in 2020, new rules impact the state’s vehicle purchases.  SACRAMENTO, Calif. ... Continue reading

GM Building New Internal Cumbustion Engine Factory To Meet Consumer Demand

GM Building New Internal Cumbustion Engine Factory To Meet Consumer Demand

Due to the growing strength of GM’s all-new 2020 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra heavy-duty pickups, General Motors and Isuzu announced today a $175 million investment through its DMAX joint venture to build an all-new, diesel engine components plant in Brookville, Ohio. The new 251,000 square-foot facility would ... Continue reading

2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime And New Toyota Mirai and AWD Camry Debut At LA Auto Show

2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime And New Toyota Mirai and AWD Camry Debut At LA Auto Show

Toyota debuted the first-ever RAV4 Prime and the next-generation 2021 Mirai along with the Camry AWD model – providing consumers with more efficiency and versatility than ever before. ... Continue reading

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum of Ethanol Opposition At It Again

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum of Ethanol Opposition At It Again

I love, love, love, the latest anti-ethanol editorial written by Colin Carter and Henry Miller that was published on July 12th. ... Continue reading

The Renewable Fuel Standard Program, RVOs, and RINs explained

The Renewable Fuel Standard Program, RVOs, and RINs explained

The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) is a federal program that mandates the incorporation of renewable fuels into the nation’s transportation fuel supply. ... Continue reading

Midwest Republicans say EPA’s Proposed Rule on RFS Hurts American Farmers

Midwest Republicans say EPA’s Proposed Rule on RFS Hurts American Farmers

Republican senators representing Midwest states expressed concerns that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed supplemental rule on the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program would harm the economies of biofuel-producing states. In separate comments submitted last week to the Federal Register, U.S. ... Continue reading

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