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API: March US Gasoline Demand and Production Set Records

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million barrels per day in July 2007. The record gasoline production in March makes it abundantly clear that supply is not an issue with the higher gasoline prices we’ve seen. Louisiana, North Dakota and Kansas saw the largest oil production increases in March over February. The highest amount of gasoline ever delivered was 9.6

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Study Finds Regional Variations in Irrigation Practices Can Push Corn Ethanol Water Requirements 3x Higher Than Earlier Estimates; Need to Account for Regional Specifics in Mandates

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Top: County-level corn production and ethanol facilities in 2007. Bottom: EWe and TCW of each state as of 2007. Among the 19 ethanol-producing states in 2007, Ohio shows the lowest EWe of 5 L L -1 , whereas California has the highest EWe of 2,138. The graph illustrates the proximity of ethanol facilities to corn production.

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Harmonizing Low Carbon Fuel Standards

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There are several safeguards to protect low carbon fuel producers, regulated parties, and consumers from unintended negative effects of low carbon fuel standards, such as an inadequate supply of low carbon fuels or a non-competitive price of fuel with its neighbors. Earlier post.). The final report on an LCFS was published in February 2011.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

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Hourcar by Hymotion, August 2006 (Twin Cities, MN), contact info@hourcar.org Southern California Edison by EnergyCS, August 2006 (Los Angeles County) Manitoba Hydro by EnergyCS, August 2006, then converted by Hymotion, November 2007 (Winnipeg, Manitoba), contact jeinnes@hydro.mb.ca 2006 (Denver CO) Veridian Corp. Jim Tech Ltd.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

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Getting a handle on power supply and demand in real time helps address the variable nature of wind and solar power, he said. Better balancing electricity supply from wind or solar energy with demand means that utilities do not need to build "stand-by" power plants that can delivery electricity reliably, Schurr said. "If

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