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Used Car of the Day: 2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse GT

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A 2006 Mitsubishi Eclipse GT, to be precise. This one is in Rockford, Illinois and the ask is $5,400. Today we dig deep and bring you a Mitsubishi. This one has a 3.8-liter liter engine, automatic transmission, heated seats, sunroof, power windows and locks, and some replacement parts. Click here to see it.

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Renewable Energy Group has sold 1 billion gallons of biodiesel

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REG was formed and began operating as an independent company in 2006, as the successor to the biodiesel operations of West Central Cooperative in Ralston, IA, which first began producing biodiesel from a one million gallon per year batch plant in 1996.

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Meet the Candidates Running for 2025 IEEE President-Elect

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Ramesh Nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors Ramesh is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at California State University Northridge’s college of engineering and computer science, where he served as dean from 2006 to 2017. in molecular science from Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale.

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Regalbuto: Sea change in direction of US Federal funding from cellulosic ethanol to renewable hydrocarbons

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In a paper in the journal Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining , Professor John Regalbuto, Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, describes what he calls “ a real sea change ” in the direction of US federal funding for biomass conversion into biofuels. —Regalbuto 2011. Regalbuto, J.

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EIA: planned capacity additions to US crude oil pipeline infrastructure should relieve Cushing bottleneck

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Phase 1 of the Keystone pipeline from Hardisty to Steele City, Nebraska, and on to Patoka, Illinois, was completed in June 2010. The 96,000-bbl/d ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline between Patoka, Illinois and Nederland, Texas, which originally shipped crude oil northward, was reversed in 2006 in order to ship Canadian heavy oil to the Gulf Coast.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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That was the case for Melba Crawford , who as a teenager couldn’t wait to leave her family’s farm in Illinois to pursue an engineering career. But during her time as a freshman at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, the aerospace industry went through a period of mass layoffs.

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Major spill from the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline in Arkansas

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The Pegasus pipeline is a 20-inch (51 cm), 858-mile (1,381-kilometer) link from the Patoka Oil Terminal Hub in Illinois to Nederland, Texas. In 2006, its reversal was completed, and in 2009, ExxonMobil completed a project that increased its capacity by 50% (about 30,000 barrels per day).

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