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California gas vehicle ban faces pushback from 17 states

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The Missouri State Attorney General commented, “If California can set restrictive ‘gas emissions’ standards, manufacturing becomes astronomically expensive, and those additional costs are passed onto consumers, many of which are Missourians.” What do you think of the article?

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China Will Attempt First Carbon-Neutral Winter Olympics

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More than 85 percent of public-transport vehicles at the Olympics will be powered by batteries, hydrogen fuel cells, or natural gas, according to state media. The common R-22 form of Freon, for example, is about 1,800 times as potent as a greenhouse gas. In Yanqing alone, 212 fuel-cell buses made by Beijing-based Beiqi Foton Motor Co.

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The Real Reason for USA based Economic Recessions.

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Recently I had the opportunity to speak at the annual Pennsylvania Energy Festival ( [link] ) back in September of this year. This article will also show how the price of oil contributed to the current housing crisis as well but the responsibility of that problem has other root causes that will not be discussed here. By Douglas A.

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DOE announces $16M for 17 Phase 1 projects in ultra-high temperature materials program; ARPA-E ULTIMATE

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ULTIMATE teams will develop ultrahigh temperature materials for gas turbine use in the aviation and power generation industries. Natural gas turbines generate more than a third of the country’s electricity, supplying power to consumers across America. Selected projects are: GE Research. Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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Electric Car Quotes: List of the Best Electric Vehicle Quotes

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Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.” That’s cool.”

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Opinion: This Is What Needs To Happen For Oil Prices To Stabilize

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Dan Doyle is president of Reliance Well Services, a hydraulic fracturing company based in Pennsylvania. There are the private equity folks and other bottom feeders that are finding their way into the market but for the most part they are spending money on distressed assets, not new oil and gas wells. Article Source: [link].

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Solar Powered Greenius Producing Massive South Bay Energy

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As our climate change crisis worsens and spins out of control with each passing day there’s no time to spare for those of us whose job it is to educate and motivate our fellow citizens to actions that cut our greenhouse gas emissions. Or waiting for do-nothing local governments to do the right thing. NO PURCHASE!

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