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"Transmission Losses" - The Cost of Bio-fuels

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The Times has story of the consequences of crop production for bio-fuels: higher food prices and tragic irony.last year, 98 percent of cassava chips exported from Thailand, the world’s largest cassava exporter , went to just one place and almost all for one purpose: to China to make biofuel.It

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"Transmission" Losses: Billion Dollar Fuel Theft

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military still hasn't found a way to staunch the flow of what is likely hundreds of millions -- if not billions -- of dollars in lost fuel in Afghanistan, some of which is sold on the black market and winds up in Taliban hands, a TPM investigation has found. After nearly a decade of mismanagement, theft and fraud, the U.S.

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Chu kills fed fuel cell funding

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The New York Times reports: Cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells, once hailed by President George W. California does seems determined to be the last supporter of hydrogen and fuel cells left standing. Tags: stephen Chu fuel cell vehicle CARB hydrogen. It's about time. CEC, CARB, anyone listening? Source: NY Times.

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Strikes cause fuel shortages in France

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Airlines are being diverted from France as jet fuel supplies dwindle, and French motorists are panic-buying diesel and gasoline for their autos as strikes grip the country. France has already begun dipping into its 30-day strategic reserve of oil. Strikers are protesting the proposed rise in the retirement age from 60 to 62.

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Chu speaks on hydrogen and fuel cells

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TR: The hydrogen fuel-cell program has been scaled back in the proposed budget, and the emphasis has been changed from transportation to buildings. You're giving away some of the energy content of natural gas, which is a very valuable fuel. The fuel cells aren't there yet, and the distribution infrastructure isn't there yet.

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Toyota reveals all you need to know about fuel cell cars

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Much has been made of late of Toyota and other automakers claims they will commercialize hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in 2015. An SAE Research Report in 2001 stated that "several automakers have pledged the introduction of fuel cell vehicles, including buses, by 2003-2005." Tags: fuel cell vehicle toyota. In 5 years.

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Bush Uses Alternative Fuels

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Alternative fuels has become the issue Bush returns to in order to take our eyes off the various disasters befalling both the administration and the country. According to Milbank: [Bush's] role as uncompensated pitchman for gasoline alternatives makes perfect sense: If anybody needs a new fuel source, it is George W.