Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Railways and pipelines are equally safe means of transporting crude oil, according to a report comparing safety data for each mode. Prior to 2012, rail moved less than 6,000 tank cars of fuel oil and crude oil per year. Beginning in 2012, however, the amount of crude oil transported by rail began to grow.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Department of Transportation. Department of Transportation were the sources of the information for 1986 through 2017. No change between 1991 and 2004 (19.6 A modest increase between 2004 and 2008 (from 19.6 The primary measure in this analysis is the average miles driven per gallon of fuel for each year.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Toyota Transport, the automaker’s in-house vehicle transportation trucking company, is using its first car hauler that runs on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). Since 2004, SmartWay Partners have saved 144.3 million barrels of oil and $20.6 the truck and trailer manufacturers. billion in fuel costs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2010

Researchers from North Carolina A and T State University have converted swine manure to bio-oils by using ethanol as a solvent in an autoclave in the reaction temperature range of 240-360 °C without any catalyst. Bio-oils can be upgraded to transportation fuels. annual consumption of petroleum oil in the US. American J.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2016

EPA’s SmartWay Transport Partnership is a market-driven initiative that empowers businesses to move goods in the cleanest, most energy-efficient way possible to protect public health and reduce the emissions that contribute to climate change. Arrow Transportation Systems Inc. Bison Transport, Inc. Bulk Service Transport, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Pending confirmation through future appraisal drilling, the total hydrocarbons initially in place in the Mad Dog field complex are now estimated to be up to four billion barrels of oil equivalent. interest, Chevron Corporation, through its subsidiary Union Oil Company of California, has a 15.6% BHP Billiton has a 23.9%

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Mexico Oil Oil-Sands Chevron 220

Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2010

Brazil’s Petrobras set a new monthly oil production record in April. Separately, Brazil president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launched to sea the first oil tanker under the Transpetro Fleet Modernization and Expansion Program (Promef) at the Atlântico Sul Shipyard (EAS), in the port of Suape, state of Pernambuco. Oil production.

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Oil Brazil Production 2004 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2009

In addition to high oil prices and the financial crisis, the increased use of new renewable energy sources, such as biofuels for road transport and wind energy for electricity generation, had a noticeable and mitigating impact on CO 2 emissions. Fossil oil consumption decreased by one per cent, due to high prices and more biofuels.

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2008 Oil Renewable Emissions 170

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2009

If the project goes forward, Sasol said it may produce approximately 80,000 barrels per day of synthetic transportation fuel. This is in line with Indonesia’s energy policy, which aims to diversify from oil to coal.”. In 2004, Indonesia produced 142 million short tons (MMst) of coal, up about 68 percent since 2000.

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Indonesia Coal 2004 2000 186

Green Car Congress

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.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The feasibility study will consider two options: a 2 million tons per year (roughly 40,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day) facility and a 4 million tons per year (roughly 80,000 boepd) facility. Sasol continues to advance upstream oil and gas activities in Mozambique, Nigeria, Gabon, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Canada and South Africa.

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Louisiana Papua New Guinea Gas Gabon 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin formally launched the Phase 1 Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline, and started the loading of the first tanker with ESPO oil. The first phase of the pipeline—the longest oil pipeline in the world—cost 360 billion rubles ($12.16 From Skovorodino oil trains weighing from 4.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI), is a CEO-led initiative of 10 oil and gas companies that collaborate on action to lead the industry response to climate change. This investment closes the Series-D offering through which Achates Power has raised $29.8 —Dr Pratima Rangarajan, CEO of OGCI Climate Investments.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

This is due to raw, externally premixed fresh charge comprising air, fuel and lube oil being short-circuited into the exhaust during the scavenging process. Initially, they used an off-the-shelf, synthetic-blend, TCW3-rated two-stroke engine oil. —Faiz and Gautam (2004). —were carried over from the production engine.

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Engine Emissions Fleet Market 329

Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2014

Livestock were the single largest source of methane gas emissions in the United States in 2004, releasing 70% more into the atmosphere than the oil and gas industry as estimated by other inventories, according to a new study by a team from Harvard University, JPL/CalTech and UC Irvine. The EPA estimates that 8.8 megatonnes (9.7

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Started in 2004, the AGGI reached 1.29 Carbon dioxide levels swing up and down in natural seasonal cycles, NOAA notes, but human activities—primarily the burning of coal, oil, and gas for transportation and power—have driven a consistent upward trend in concentration. in 2010—i.e.,

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APRIL 15, 2009

The transportation end-use sector accounted for 1,924.6 Among domestic transportation sources, light duty vehicles represented 61% of CO 2 emissions, medium- and heavy-duty trucks 22%, commercial aircraft 8%, and other sources 10%. in 2007, led to an increase in overall emissions from transportation activities of 28%.

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2007 Emissions EPA Gas 150

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AUGUST 28, 2009

Advanced diesel and gasoline engines will remain important for automotive applications for a long time to come—not only for individual mobility in passenger cars, especially over long distances—but, more importantly, for freight transport in trucks. Earlier post.). kWh to boost power and recover braking energy.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

Energix Research says its tests indicate that the technology enables the entire gas-to-liquids (GTL) process to consume a lower percentage of the energy in the gas source and, due to the lower capital costs, the overall cost of production can be very competitive with conventional, large-scale refineries which produce these fuels from crude oil.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Solid acids are chemical intermediates between normal salts and normal acids—“acid salts” The solid acids support direct H + transport, are humidity insensitive, and are impermeable. methanol, diesel and bio-oils), further reducing the overall fuel cell system complexity and cost. Chisholm et al. Boysen et al.

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Plug In Partners

MARCH 16, 2006

H ere is an interview with Joe Romm that recently appeared on the the popular radio show Earth and Sky Joseph Romm is author of " The Car and Fuel of the Future ," a 2004 report to the National Commission on Energy Policy. Romm : I think we have two major, related problems that are going to drive transportation in the future.

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Gasoline-Electric Oil Gasoline Plug-in 100

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Chevron announced that crude oil and natural gas production has begun at the ultra-deepwater Jack/St. With a planned production life of more than 30 years, current technologies are anticipated to recover in excess of 500 million oil-equivalent barrels. Malo Oil Export Pipeline, and then onto refineries along the Gulf Coast.

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Mexico Oil Chevron USA 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

A new report released by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute ( UMTRI ) analyzes critical choices faced by automakers and finds that broad, deep, fast change is necessary for success in the context of the worst financial crisis in the history of the domestic automobile industry. Source: McManus and Kleinbaum.

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Fuel Economy Detroit Economy Michigan 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2012

The multidisciplinary research will be based at the university’s Institute of Transportation Studies. The biodiesel, to be blended with conventional diesel, is derived from waste oils, including used cooking oil. The quantity of fuel dispensed at the station has increased 19-fold since it opened in 2004. tmdgroup, Inc.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

While this may seem conflicted, his position is responsible for ensuring the safe operation of the ships contracted for product transport. Sterling's career in marine transportation also provides him experience in transportation logistics. His Texas roots honed his arguments supporting EV industry expansion.

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North America America El Paso New Mexico 68

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Dr. Paul addressed a positive change—the days of increasing US oil consumption may be over. “ We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” M barrels/day of oil within the next 10 years ”. The oil industry may be one of the sources of capital. One year ago. Eight months ago.

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 28, 2021

While this may seem conflicted, his position is responsible for ensuring the safe operation of the ships contracted for product transport. Sterling's career in marine transportation also provides him experience in transportation logistics. His Texas roots honed his arguments supporting EV industry expansion.

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North America America El Paso New Mexico 52

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

nk City Electric car www.thinkelectric.org Documentary about electric cars, hybrids, hydrogen and the future of transportation. Wakefield, 1998 "Taken For a Ride: Detroit's Big Three and the politics of pollution" by Jack Doyle Books on Peak Oil and Energy Transition "Beyond Oil: The view from Hubbert's Peak", by Kenneth S.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

For people looking for the most effective way to end our addiction to oil, PHEVs have made sense because carmakers can build them now, with todays technology and using todays infrastructure. And were gratified that General Motors recognizes this study as validation of its decision to evolve to the electrification of transportation.

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Plug-in Plugin Plug Hybrid 61

Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2009

Transportation-related emissions, which account for about a third of total energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, decreased by 5.2% Since 1990 the next largest yearly decline in the transportation sector was 1.3% Transportation sector CO 2 emissions by fuel types (1990 to 2008). Source: EIA. Click to enlarge. since 1990.

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2008 Emissions Carbon Transportation 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

February, 2009 : Record heat waves in late January and early February overloaded urban energy, water, and transport systems in the southernmost states of South Australia and Victoria and intensified hundreds of seasonal and man-made bushfires throughout the countryside, killing 374 people. Canada’s 2009 GHG emissions are 48.7%

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

CalCars PRIUS+/Ron Gremban, Fall 2004 Ron Gremban, CalCars team; initially with EnergyCS technology (not used in redesigned conversion) Marin County, CA info@calcars.org 2. Contact Toronto Atmospheric Fund Ontario Ministry of Transportation , Prius, Hymotion, August 2007 (Toronto, ON, Canada). Please send it to webmaster@calcars.org.

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Prius Conversion Plug-in Plug 48

Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2017

The permit authorizes TransCanada to construct, to connect, to operate, and to maintain pipeline facilities at the US-Canadian border in Phillips County, Montana for the importation of crude oil. Kerry noted at that time that the arguments pro and con had been “overstated”. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Because the exhaust system transports only water, it can be made of lightweight polymer. The first technology demonstrator was the compact A2H2 in 2004, which was already equipped with a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEM). These components have a high-voltage electric drive and are powered by the fuel cell.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Several dozen prototypes on 15-passenger van since 2004; now in second generation development; no production plans. I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil," he says, sitting beside a massive V-16 engine on display in his office. 5/17/06 "Plugin hybrids have a lot of promise, especially to displace oil consumption.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

For only the second time since PPIC began asking the question in 2003, more Californians support expanding oil drilling off the coast than oppose it (51% favor, 43% oppose), the same as last year (51% favor, 45% oppose). Energy sources and automobile efficiency. Just 18% say the state should focus on building freeways and highways.

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