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The Real Reason for USA based Economic Recessions.

DIY Electric Car

There have been 5 recession since then until now and I wanted to see if Oil had anything to do with them, because deep in my heart, I knew the most recent recession was directly caused by the oil price spikes that started in 2007 and peaked in 2008. This increase in oil prices again pushed the economy into a recession.

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VTT study concludes gasification-based pathways can deliver low-carbon fuels from biomass for about 1.90-2.65 US$/gallon

Green Car Congress

The horizontal red lines show the comparable price of gasoline (before tax, refining margin 0.3 $/gal, exchange rate: 1 € = 1.326 $) with crude oil prices 100 $/bbl and 150 $/bbl. This Ultra-Clean Gas (UCG) process has been at the focus of VTT’s biomass gasification R&D since 2006. Source: VTT. 0.7 €/liter (app.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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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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Is Ford First?

Plug In Partners

Ford May Build a Plug-In Hybrid May 11, 2006 Ford Motor Co. Ford Chairman and CEO Bill Ford told shareholders at the automaker's annual meeting that the automotive market is shifting rapidly because of higher oil prices and the company is trying to respond. producer of hybrid cars.

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Interview with Chris Paine in the Whole Life Times

Revenge of the Electric Car

2006), and you’ll learn that those once-dead electric vehicles (EVs) are now exacting a shocking revenge. January 2009 | Conversations The Electric Car Returns (and This Time It’s Personal). 2006), and you’ll learn that those once-dead electric vehicles (EVs) are now exacting a shocking revenge. Is this discouraging?

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Startup Siluria Technologies developing novel bio-templated catalysts for economic direct conversion of methane to ethylene; potential for transportation fuels

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It’s a robust technology, but you have to pay the oil price, and if you have to burn an awful lot of heat in order to enable that endothermic chemistry, if you were to care about the energy footprint of this, it’s the three pounds of CO 2 produced to make one pound of polyethylene. in a 1997 paper in Science.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

EPA declares CO2 a “threat to public health&# Alternative Energy Stocks The Time is Right for Gas-guzzler to Dual-mode EV Conversions Joel Makower: Two Steps Forward The Seven Sins of Greenwashing: Is Everybody Lying? 2) Chevy Volt (2) China (2) ECOD3.SA 2) Inconvenient Truth (2) JCI (2) MGA (2) NSANY (2) PGE (2) SB1.DE SZ (1) 6753.T

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