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Celanese Endorses Congressman Pete Olson's Domestic Alternative Fuels Act of 2012

Celanese Endorses Congressman Pete Olson's Domestic Alternative Fuels Act of 2012

Celanese Corporation , a global technology and specialty materials company, applauds Representative Pete Olson (R-Texas) for introducing House Bill 3773 yesterday on the floor of the United States House of Representatives. H.R. 3773 would amend section 211(o) of the Clean Air Act to allow fuel blenders to use Domestic ... Continue reading

If Iran Moves, the USA Has No Plan for an Oil Interruption +VIDEO

If Iran Moves, the USA Has No Plan for an Oil Interruption +VIDEO

How to Save America When the Oil Stops - or the Day Before (Dialog Press). Buy it here. It will come as a shock to most Americans, but no presidential candidate -- nor any candidate, nor any local, state or federal government -- has developed a contingency plan in the event of a protracted oil cut-off. It is not even b ... Continue reading

Ethanol Maker POET Drops Annual Water Use

Ethanol Maker POET Drops Annual Water Use

Company is ahead of pace to cut use by 1 billion gallons by 2015 SIOUX FALLS, SD (December 8, 2011) – POET is more than 75 percent of the way to achieving the water reduction goal the company set under the environmental initiative “Ingreenuity.” With startup of the proprietary Total Water Recovery system ... Continue reading

The National Security Case For Higher Fuel Standards - It's About Time

The National Security Case For Higher Fuel Standards - It's About Time

Retired military generals and admirals make a compelling case for how to decrease America's dependence on oil. ‚ WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2011 -- Today, the American Security Project released an open letter to Congress and the American public highlighting the need for the U.S. to reduce its dependence on oil for transport ... Continue reading

CNG-Powered Vehicles - What's The Problem Here?

CNG-Powered Vehicles - What's The Problem Here?

Commentary by Rick Carlton <p> With gasoline point of sale prices averaging $3 per gallon nationally, and with spot oil costs remaining between $88 - $93 per barrel (based on 1/7/2011 Bloomberg energy metrics) the question becomes, at what point do we get serious about alternative fuels? <p> Granted, there's considerab ... Continue reading

Pearson Fuels is First in Alternative Fuels Industry with Educational Animated Video

Pearson Fuels is First in Alternative Fuels Industry with Educational Animated Video

Pearson Fuels has launched their new educational animated short, “Fuel Better in Sixty Seconds. The video is available at http://www.pearsonfuels.com/fuelbetter. With the election season ramping up and daily conversations occurring in the media around budget cuts and tax policy, it is important that the public be educ ... Continue reading

Wood Biofuel Could be a Competitive Industry by 2020: UBC study

Wood Biofuel Could be a Competitive Industry by 2020: UBC study

Fuel made from wood could become a competitive commercial alternative to fuel made from corn by 2020 if the wood biofuel industry is supported, according to a new University of British Columbia study. Corn ethanol is currently blended with gasoline to satisfy government-mandated targets to include renewable content in ... Continue reading

Biased House Hearing Leaves Questions, Doubts - Growth Energy: Where Is The Voice for American Ethanol?

Biased House Hearing Leaves Questions, Doubts - Growth Energy: Where Is The Voice for American Ethanol?

WASHINGTON – Noting the absence of a witness to testify on behalf of America’s ethanol supporters, Growth Energy dismissed the “chorus of critics” who used today’s House Science Subcommittee hearing to protect their own special interests, specifically Big Oil’s grip over the American motor ... Continue reading

Every Time You Buy Gasoline You Support Ahmadinejad and Chavez

Every Time You Buy Gasoline You Support Ahmadinejad and Chavez

The world's worst regimes and dictators are propped up by oil By Marc J. Rauch Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher THE AUTO CHANNEL Think you're a patriot? Well think again, because regardless of which brand of gasoline you buy, every time you do so you give scumbags like the two pictured above the ability to shoot their ... Continue reading

A Stable Renewable Fuel Standard Is Needed to Meet Biofuel Production Goals, BIO Says

A Stable Renewable Fuel Standard Is Needed to Meet Biofuel Production Goals, BIO Says

Advanced biofuels companies continue to make progress in bringing new technology to the fuels market, relying on consistent implementation of the Renewable Fuel Standard, the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) said today as it submitted documents to the House Science Energy and Environment Subcommittee for a hea ... Continue reading

Fujitsu Announces New Technical Backgrounder Highlighting Simplified Motor Control Design for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles

Fujitsu Announces New Technical Backgrounder Highlighting Simplified Motor Control Design for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles

Fujitsu Semiconductor America (FSA) today issued a new technical backgrounder describing how hybrid (HEV) and electric (EV) vehicle motors operate, and how the MB91580 series motor control microcontrollers (MCUs) simplify hybrid and electric vehicle design. The new backgrounder explains how control algorithms and robus ... Continue reading

Ethanol Not Cause of Rising Food Prices

Ethanol Not Cause of Rising Food Prices

Washington DC October 21, 2011; The U.S. ethanol industry is a cutting-edge industry that continues to get cleaner and more energy efficient every day. But there are many who don’t know the facts and still accept a decades-old image and misleading rumors as facts. First, there are countless studies that show ethan ... Continue reading

Growth Energy: McCain Amendment Would Limit Consumer Choice

Growth Energy: McCain Amendment Would Limit Consumer Choice

Washington, D.C. – Growth Energy, the leading voice for the U.S. ethanol industry, released the following statement in response to an amendment offered by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) that would limit consumer choice by prohibiting the USDA from funding Flex Fuel pump installations. Sen. McCain offered this same ame ... Continue reading

Cyclone Power Technologies President to Speak At National Combined Heat and Power Conference

Cyclone Power Technologies President to Speak At National Combined Heat and Power Conference

Cyclone Power Technologies (Pink Sheets: CYPW), developer of the all-fuel, clean-tech Cyclone Engine, announced today that the Company's President, Christopher Nelson, will be speaking at the upcoming Combined Heat and Power Conference and Trade Show -- known as CHP 2011 -- at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 18th at the ... Continue reading

Major Alt Fuel POW WOW Convenes in Washington Today with Intriguing, Questionable Participants

Major Alt Fuel POW WOW Convenes in Washington Today with Intriguing, Questionable Participants

Major Alt Fuel POW WOW Convenes in Washington Today with Intriguing, Questionable Participants By Marc J. Rauch Exec. Vice President/Co-Publisher THE AUTO CHANNEL WASHINGTON – September 21, 2011: The United States Energy Security Council (USESC), the highest level extra-governmental group ever assembled to address ... Continue reading

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