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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

million Valicor corn-oil separation system (COSS) at its Nebraska Energy LLC plant in Aurora, Nebraska. Since corn oil has a higher market value, removing the oil improves dried distillers grain processing properties. Aventine Renewable Energy Inc. has installed a $2.4-million The system began operations in early January.

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JANUARY 18, 2010

An AECOM-led study of plug-in electric vehicle economics for the New South Wales, Australia government concluded that electric vehicles are economically and financially viable in the NSW market today. The move towards a plug-in electric vehicle market also generates large savings in greenhouse gas and air pollution emissions.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

According to a new report from Pike Research, the various national-level initiatives and programs to promote the awareness of electric vehicles (EVs) in the Asia-Pacific region will help make the region the largest market worldwide for electrified vehicles, led by strong demand in China, Japan, and Korea. billion in 2015.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

This is, however, the opposite of historic pricing trends, and suggests that policy intervention of a stronger enforcement mechanism will be required to meet RFS2 targets by creating market conditions necessary for greater biofuel consumption. Among their findings were: RFS2 is satisfied at extreme oil prices (at least $215/barrel).

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JULY 21, 2015

FedEx joins Southwest Airlines, which signed a purchase agreement with RedRock in November 2014 for about 3 million gallons per year, in purchasing Red Rock’s total planned available volume of jet fuel. The agreement runs through 2024, with first delivery expected in 2017. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 22, 2013

improved battery chemistry that allows for faster and deeper charging and reductions in battery cell and other component costs), and oil prices increasing to $200 per barrel: Low. It assumes significant improvements in vehicle battery costs and performance that promote higher market penetrations of electric vehicles.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Oil represented the largest share of final demand, at around 41%, but demand growth slowed to 1.5% In 2018, higher oil prices helped dampen demand for road transport fuels. However, this gain has been offset primarily by users’ purchasing decisions and behavior.

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JULY 12, 2011

scenarios, and the sensitivity of the model to particular factors, the analysis reveals areas where intervention may be warranted: The capital costs associated with vehicle purchase, in relation to the costs for conventional vehicles; Supply constraints in the Australian market; and. supply constraints into the Australia market.

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JULY 14, 2009

In two other scenarios considered, a high oil price scenario (using EIA projections) and a battery swap operator-subsidzied scenario, EV new vehicle sales penetration reaches 85% and 86% respectively by 2030. The high rate of adoption is driven by the low purchase price and operating costs of electric cars with switchable batteries.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 30, 2023

What was the most fuel-efficient (mass-produced, internal combustion-powered, highway-legal, non-gray-market, four-wheeled, et freakin' cetera) new car available in the United States during the 1980s? Other Sprint models could be purchased with optional automatics that year.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

Rising Oil Prices Lead to Investments in Natural Gas. Oil markets are traditionally sensitive to a pick up in economic activity. As the economy continues to slowly improve over the next 12 months, Cascadia predicts that oil will hit $100 per barrel. There are too many loopholes, including free permits and.

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MAY 26, 2009

The brief concentrates on six topics: climate change policy, carbon capture and storage policy, oil security policy, energy-technology innovation policy, electricity market structure, and infrastructure policy. Oil security policy. If the price later rose above $90, the tax would disappear.

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EV Report

APRIL 30, 2020

Some are still not yet sure to make a plunge in purchase. In comparison with Norway, a country that is considered to be an unofficial leader in Electric Vehicles, around 40 percent of vehicles sold are electric vehicles and there are thousands of drivers who are on a waiting list to purchase the latest electric vehicles.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

Biofuels grow at a slower rate due to lower crude oil prices and. The decline reflects increased domestic production of both petroleum and natural gas, increased use of biofuels, and lower demand resulting from the adoption of new vehicle fuel efficiency standards and rising energy prices. Biomass and biofuels growth is slower.

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JANUARY 1, 2011

” Their analysis is in the context of the “ surprising [oil] demand strength of 2010 “; 2010 saw absolute incremental demand at around 2.2mb/d of growth—the second highest in 30 years, despite oil prices in the $90/bbl region. Click to enlarge. An explosion of hybrid sales in Japan.

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MAY 22, 2013

The index compares the development of e-mobility in seven leading car-manufacturing nations (Germany, France, Italy, US, Japan, China and South Korea) on the basis of three parameters: technology, manufacturing, and market. Extracting oil by fracking could stabilize the oil price over the next few years.

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JUNE 20, 2012

While DoD and the services will have access to the wholesale fuel supplies they require, the purchase price may be uncomfortably high. As fuel consumers, DoD and the services have only one effective option to deal with high petroleum prices: to reduce use of petroleum fuels overall.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

electric vehicle sales, and a national estimate of electric vehicle market share annually. Other states will be selling less than 8,000 electric vehicles per year, with fewer than 26,000 total registrations by 2015, even in the large markets of Texas, New York, and Florida.

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APRIL 12, 2012

Without significant additional policy interventions to induce market penetration of breakthrough passenger car and aircraft technologies, the overall European (EU27) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction goals for 2050 will be difficult to meet, according to a new study by researchers from the University of Cambridge, Stanford University and MIT.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

While several high profile vehicle market introductions such as the Chevrolet Volt and the Nissan Leaf have been initiated, questions remain regarding the potential to reach the 2015 goal. The performance and cost effectiveness of the early EVs in the market will be a major but unknowable factor in how many EVs are on the road by 2015.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

The oil price shocks of the 1970s led the Brazilian government to address the strain high prices were placing on its fragile economy. Brazil, the largest and most populous country in South America, was importing 80% of its oil and 40% of its foreign exchange was used to pay for that imported oil. by Brian J.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

It discriminates both on its face, and as applied, against transportation fuels and fuel feedstocks imported from outside of California with the intended effect of (i) promoting in-state production of transportation fuels, and (ii) “keep[ing] consumer dollars local by reducing the need to make fuel purchases from beyond [California’s] borders.”.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The report, Plug-In Electric Vehicles: A Practical Plan for Progress , examines public policies toward PEVs, taking into account the promise and limitations of PEVs, recent improvements in battery technology, market dynamics, and the proliferation of policies around the world that promote the use of PEVs. Market Drivers.

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OCTOBER 4, 2011

However, consumers’ willingness to purchase flex-fuel vehicles and use E85 instead of lower blends of ethanol in their vehicles will likely depend on the price of ethanol and their attitude toward biofuels. If competition for bioenergy feedstocks intensifies because of low supply, the price will likely increase.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2009

not enthusiast or pioneer—adoption of coming plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), given current market conditions and consumer awareness and attitudes. The Most Plausible Early Market consumers value fuel economy. Expect mostly incremental change unless the market is helped, or unless technology progress surprises us again.

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

The expected influx of large amounts of alcohol-based fuels and fuels derived from unconventional petroleum over the next decade may cause long-term world oil prices to be between 5 and 12% lower than they would be in the absence of those fuels. Adverse effects of ULS jet fuel would include higher fuel prices (by about $0.05

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JANUARY 15, 2014

This paper employs an energy system model to meet the following objectives: (1) identify the conditions under which EDVs achieve high market penetration in the U.S. 42% of the LDV market with an average value of 24%—a figure broadly consistent with other projections of EDV market development. —Babaee et al.

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JULY 2, 2013

The underlying assumption is that the world will immediately use whatever oil can be pumped from the ground, and that supply is independent of demand—that is, oil exploration investments bear no relation to the current oil price or expectations of future demand.

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AUGUST 13, 2015

In the last quarter of 2014, in the face of possible oversupply, Saudi Arabia abandoned its traditional role as the global oil market’s swing producer and therefore it role as unofficial guarantor of existing ($100+ per barrel) prices. Prices rebounded to $60 for a few months, before falling once again below $50.

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DECEMBER 8, 2014

North American start-ups have attracted 76% of transactions (377) and 87% of investment dollars ($6 billion) since 2003 due to the booming heavy oil and tight oil/shale gas market. Private equity firms have also purchased technology companies, but with the end goal of turning them around to sell to an oilfield services company.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that Americans were burning through a million fewer barrels of oil last week than they were the week before. What isn’t dropping is oil prices and that seems to be making all the difference. million bbl. million bbl.

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MARCH 7, 2013

By contrast, those in the wealthiest car-owning households are spending around 12% of their disposable incomes on purchasing and operating a car. Of a total weekly expenditure of £167 (US$250), those in the poorest car-owning households see £44 (US$66) go on vehicle-related purchasing and operating costs.

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JUNE 30, 2015

United has also negotiated a long-term supply agreement with Fulcrum and, subject to availability, will have the opportunity to purchase at least 90 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel a year for a minimum of 10 years at a cost that is competitive with conventional jet fuel.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Alternative technologies, such as hybrid and electric vehicles that use oil more efficiently or not at all, continue to advance but they take time to penetrate markets. Short-term pressures on oil markets are easing with the economic slowdown and the expected return of Libyan supply. billion in 2035. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 19, 2012

Very broadly, they found that an LCFS would buffer the economy against global oil price spikes, trim demand for petroleum, and lessen upward pressure on gas prices. An LCFS is a hybrid of a regulatory and market policy instrument. Treat all crude oils as part of the overall pool of transportation fuels.

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JANUARY 25, 2011

Because of limited production potential, fuels derived from animal fats, waste oils, and seed oils will never have a significant role in the larger domestic commercial marketplace. Lower world oil prices would yield economic benefits to all fuel users—civilian and military alike. The Prospects for Commercial Production.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYD’s conventional gas-powered cars are selling well these days in China, and his electric plug-in electric model looks like it will come to market with a longer range and a lower sticker price than the new Toyota Prius much-hyped Chevy Volt.

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