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Three Degrees Still Can't Make Ethanol Slam Stick

Three Degrees Still Can't Make Ethanol Slam Stick

Response To Peter Z. Grossman and the Washington Examiner By Marc J. Rauch. A new op/ed article disparaging ethanol appeared today in the Washington Examiner. ... Continue reading

PG&E Launches New Program to Sell More Electric By Accelerating Electric Vehicle Adoption

PG&E Launches New Program to Sell More Electric By Accelerating Electric Vehicle Adoption

SAN FRANCISCO--To help accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in California, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today launched its new EV Charge Network program. Partnering with business customers and EV charging companies, PG&E will install 7,500 EV chargers at condominiums, apartment buildings and wo ... Continue reading

NAIAS 2018: Schaeffler Showcases Environmentally Friendly Drive Systems

NAIAS 2018: Schaeffler Showcases Environmentally Friendly Drive Systems

- Electrification solutions integrate Schaeffler's 48-volt system into the engine-transmission unit and axle - Hybrid innovations for the next-generation high-voltage hybrid module and electric axle - Internal combustion engine developments include the second-generation thermal management module, electric camshaft adju ... Continue reading

AUTO LAB TALK RADIO LIVE FROM NYC SATURDAY MORNING! 7-9 AM January 13, 2018

AUTO LAB TALK RADIO LIVE FROM NYC SATURDAY MORNING! 7-9 AM January 13, 2018

Auto Lab is a 28 year old interactive automotive-focused New York area radio call-in show hosted by Professor Harold Wolchok. Each week a cadre of experienced hands-on automotive experts are in-studio with advice for the New York area's 12 million people, providing listeners with honest, practical and street-smart car ... Continue reading

E-Fuel Personal Energy System’ Hydrous Fuel Technology Makes Off-Grid Affordable Reality +VIDEO

E-Fuel Personal Energy System’ Hydrous Fuel Technology Makes Off-Grid Affordable Reality +VIDEO

Today, E-Fuel Corporation released for preorder sales on its website www.efuel100.com the revolutionary new Personal Energy System (PES) that will begin shipping second quarter of 2018. The PES is industry’s first organic hydrous fuel combustion powered generator (genset) that can power and use the excess waste energ ... Continue reading

Ethanol Has A New Customer ... And it Requires 50 Billion Gallons of Ethanol

Ethanol Has A New Customer ... And it Requires 50 Billion Gallons of Ethanol

The transportation market has greatly benefited from the use of organic ethanol blends over the past 30 years. Emissions are down substantially, fuel economy is way up, vehicle engines are lasting longer and smaller engines are delivering more horsepower thanks to higher compression engines which favor ethanol. ... Continue reading

Fox News' Revolting Take on Ethanol - With UPDATE

Fox News' Revolting Take on Ethanol - With UPDATE

Guys like Steve Hilton gives baldness a bad name. By Marc J. Rauch, Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher, THE AUTO CHANNEL I just finished watching a video clip from a Fox News hosted by Steve Hilton. Mr. Hilton has a Sunday show called "The Next Revolution," and in the show he apparently does a regular segment titled "Sw ... Continue reading

Rejecting Big Oil Snakes

Rejecting Big Oil Snakes

Response to Ike Kiefer By Marc J. Rauch Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher THE AUTO CHANNEL Just about five years ago, retired U.S. Navy Captain Todd A. "Ike" Kiefer wrote an anti-ethanol report titled "Twenty-First Century Snake Oil - Why the United States Should Reject Biofuels As Part of a Rational National Energy St ... Continue reading

AUTO LAB TALK RADIO LIVE FROM NYC SATURDAY MORNING! 7-9 AM December 23, 2017

AUTO LAB TALK RADIO LIVE FROM NYC SATURDAY MORNING! 7-9 AM December 23, 2017

Auto Lab is a 28 year old interactive automotive-focused New York area radio call-in show hosted by Professor Harold Wolchok. Each week a cadre of experienced hands-on automotive experts are in-studio with advice for the New York area's 12 million people, providing listeners with honest, practical and street-smart car ... Continue reading

Gov. Jerry Brown's Big Polluting Gifts To Dirty Energy Industry

Gov. Jerry Brown's Big Polluting Gifts To Dirty Energy Industry

Consumer Watchdog released an animation featuring Governor Jerry Brown and an updated "Twelve Days of Christmas" song highlighting his support for fossil fuels and dirty energy policies. The remake of the classy Christmas song highlights that while Brown has circled the world as an advocate against climate change, he h ... Continue reading

California Government Seeks New Ways To Screw Public Using Energy Concerns

California Government Seeks New Ways To Screw Public Using Energy Concerns

By Marc J. Rauch Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher THE AUTO CHANNEL AUTO CENTRAL - Feb 3, 2015: CALSTART is a California based organization of more than 140 firms, fleets and agencies who are supposedly dedicated to supporting a growing high-tech, clean transportation industry that cleans the air, creates jobs, cuts im ... Continue reading

POET Responds to EPA Renewable Volume Obligation

POET Responds to EPA Renewable Volume Obligation

POET CEO Jeff Broin today responded to the EPA's final rule on the 2018 Renewable Volume Obligations under the Renewable Fuel Standard. "Biofuels are a critical component of the US fuel supply, and today President Trump and the EPA confirmed that fact..." ... Continue reading

NATSO, NACS and SIGMA Commend Environmental Protection Agency for Rejecting Petition to Alter Compliance Responsibility Under the RFS

NATSO, NACS and SIGMA Commend Environmental Protection Agency for Rejecting Petition to Alter Compliance Responsibility Under the RFS

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 22, 2017; NATSO, the national association representing truckstops and travel plazas, along with the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America (SIGMA) and the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) today commended Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruit ... Continue reading

Automakers Approve E15 in Nearly 90% of New 2018 Vehicles

Automakers Approve E15 in Nearly 90% of New 2018 Vehicles

According to an analysis conducted by Renewable Fuels Association, nearly 90 percent of new 2018 model year (MY) vehicles are explicitly approved by the manufacturer to use 15 percent ethanol blends (E15), according to the results of an annual analysis of warranty statements and owner’s manuals conducted by the Renew ... Continue reading

HYUNDAI MOTOR AMERICA TO RELEASE EIGHT NEW CROSSOVER UTILITY VEHICLES BY THE YEAR 2020 VIEW ONLINE

HYUNDAI MOTOR AMERICA TO RELEASE EIGHT NEW CROSSOVER UTILITY VEHICLES BY THE YEAR 2020 VIEW ONLINE

Vehicles will be powered by Gasoline, Diesel, Hydrogen and Electricity SUPERIOR TWP., Mich., Nov. 15, 2017 – Hyundai Motor America today announced its commitment to debut eight new or re-engineered crossover utility vehicles (CUVs) in the United States by the year 2020 during a press conference at the Hyundai America ... Continue reading

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