Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2015

Oil prices have rebounded strongly since March. There is a newfound bullishness in the oil markets—net long positions on Brent crude have hit multi-year highs in recent weeks on a belief that US supply is on its way down. EOG Resources says it will head back to the oil patch if prices stabilize around $65 per barrel.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The country’s increased production of crude oil, natural gas, and corn-based ethanol created unforeseen demands and safety challenges on their long-distance transportation via pipelines, tank barges, and railroad tank cars. Prior to 2005, railroads had little experience carrying ethanol and crude oil in large quantities.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

million in funding from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) under the agency’s OPEN 2015 solicitation ( earlier post ). Elliott at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington. This creates a high-value crude oil equivalent. Marine BioEnergy, Inc. was awarded $2.1

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2013

Within ECAs, the sulfur content of fuel oil (expressed in terms of % m/m – that is, by weight) must be no more than 1.00% m/m; falling to 0.10% m/m on and after 1 January 2015. This date could be deferred to 1 January 2025, depending on the outcome of a review, to be completed by 2018, as to the availability of compliant fuel oil.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2011

These vehicles will be leased to 20 agencies, including the Department of Energy, and will be located in Washington, DC; Detroit, MI; Los Angeles, CA; San Diego, CA; and San Francisco, CA. million gallons of gasoline, or 385,000 barrels of oil. GSA announced its initial purchase of more than 100 electric vehicles for a vehicle pilot.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2010

In a talk at the opening plenary of the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) conference in Washington, DC, former New York Governor George Pataki called for a 40% market penetration of electric drive vehicles in the US by the end of the decade. The challenge is demand creation. If you build it, they aren’t coming.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2011

million barrels per day of gasoline, jet fuel, diesel, natural gas liquids and crude oil through more than 8,000 miles of pipelines. Carbon dioxide is used in enhanced oil recovery projects. Second largest oil producer in Texas, producing more than 50,000 barrels per day. and Washington state. billion cubic feet per day.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

Researchers from Western Washington University and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have developed a method to produce jet-fuel range hydrocarbons as a co-product of the production of algal biodiesel from the biomass of the industrially grown marine microalgae Isochrysis. Credit: ACS, O’Neil et al. Click to enlarge. —O’Neil et al.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In a 2015 interview with the WGBH Forum Network , Dudley Foster , an engineer who worked on Alvin , described the previous submersibles as “blimps.” During a 1956 symposium about deep-sea exploration held in Washington, D.C., Office of Naval Research made a presentation about one of the submersibles: Trieste.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff are to present the results of these reviews to the ARB by 1 January 2012, and 1 January 2015. Washington. Executive Order 09-05 directs the Washington Department of Ecology to assess LCFS provisions that would best help the state meet its GHG goals. Earlier post.). excessive flaring).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

The five Peterbilt Model 386 heavy duty diesel-electric hybrids are being tested in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Southern California and the Baltimore/Washington DC region. distribution center will operate on an 80/20 blend of biodiesel made of waste yellow cooking oil. Reclaimed Grease Fuel and Biodiesel. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2013

At an event in Sacramento, California, Volvo Trucks announced that it will commercialize dimethyl ether (DME)-powered heavy-duty commercial vehicles in North America, with limited production beginning in 2015. However, notes Dr. Rebecca Boudreaux, Oberon’s president, oil was at $16 per barrel back then. DME engine in 2015.

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My Electric Car

AUGUST 21, 2020

The mandating of any system such as this would only be about looking after the interests of ‘middlemen’: oil and gas invested companies who would invariably transition into this market as both supply and/or demand for oil recede. . 2015, p127) [1]. . 2015) The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2015

The report did not address other concerns raised about hydraulic fracturing specifically or about oil and gas exploration and production activities more generally, including acquisition and transport of constituents of hydraulic fracturing fluids besides water (e.g., Water, of variable quality, is a byproduct of oil and gas production.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2015

The single demonstration flight is expected to occur after Gevo receives ASTM International certification for its fuel, sometime in mid- to late-2015. Alaska Airlines was the first US airline to fly multiple commercial passenger flights using a biofuel from used cooking oil. Earlier post.). and Seattle and Portland in November 2011.

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Cars That Think

MAY 21, 2022

This is, after all, how all the energy stored in wood, coal, oil, and natural gas originally got here: It was transmitted 150 million kilometers through space as electromagnetic waves—sunlight—most of it millions of years ago. Naval Research Laboratory , in Washington, D.C., Army’s Blossom Point test facility south of Washington, D.C.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2014

At the US Department of Energy (DOE) Annual Merit Review in Washington, DC last week, Cory Weaver from Ford Research and Advanced Engineering reported that Ford has completed the planned build of 12 units of the new engine, and is working on vehicle integration for further testing per the project timeline. Tier 2 Bin 2. Tier 3 SULEV30.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored the six 2015 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award winners at a ceremony in Washington, DC. For 2015, EPA announced a new award category for a green chemistry technology that has a “Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change.”

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 17, 2023

The Yom-Kippur War of 1973 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979 resulted in severe oil shortages that primarily impacted the Western world. It also helps explain why practical fuel economy averages for the nation haven’t improved by all that much since 2015. Here’s an example from The Washington Post.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2018

dollar poses an obstacle to further gains in oil prices. As Reuters points out , in dollar terms the price of Brent oil has climbed 9 percent this year, but in yuan terms oil is now nearly 14 percent more expensive. The problem for many emerging markets is that oil prices have been going up at the same time.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

During his campaign, President Obama said he would work to put one million plug-in hybrids on American roads by 2015. It is also flex so that future biomass fuels such as cellulosic ethanol, methanol can be used (no oil). Those cars will reduce oil demand at most by about 1/5th of one percent. — Volt Enthusiast 7.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

Jay Inslee, governor of the state of Washington, explicitly announced that his state would follow California’s lead on the 2035 ban deadline, and another 12 states have typically stayed in lockstep with California on auto emissions standards. Utility-scale photovoltaic solar array. The IRA certainly could have turned out even better, too.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

So imagine a million electric cars on US roads which all need to change these batteries in say 2015. Air travel will be limited to extremely expensive intercontinental and military flights to conserve oil, and nuclear developments will be for military purposes only for national security.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. states (Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) and four Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec). Representatives Henry A.

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