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Ukraine considering production of biofuel from fodder potato crop

Green Car Congress

The Ukraine is considering using part of its crop of fodder potatoes—i.e., The Ukraine is one of the top potato producers in the world, ranking fourth in volume in 2008 (behind China, India and Russia), but only sixth in terms of the value of the commodity, according to the FAO.

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Fight Fascists & Save Money: Go Electric

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Adjusted for inflation, gas prices were similarly high in 2006, 2008, and for a while after 2011. The current spike follows Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked and unjustified attack on Ukraine. […]. While prices at the pump seem extreme, we’ve been here before.

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Palladium falls as concern EVs will destroy demand returns to the fore – ET Auto

Baua Electric

Russia, which is being punished by widening western sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, is home to Nornickel. In 2023, palladium prices fell by 39%, the metal’s deepest yearly fall since 2008. 14 when the UK restrictions were announced and the market was concerned about their possible expansion in future.

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Global Carbon Budget 2022: Global fossil CO2 emissions expected to grow 1.0% in 2022

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During the Global Financial Crisis in 2008/9, the COVID19 pandemic, and now the Ukrainian War, economic stimulus packages were meant to put the world on a cleaner and greener path, but this is not at all evident in the CO 2 emissions data. growth) for coal, but decline by 2.3% for oil, 1.1% for natural gas, and 7.0% for cement.

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Natural Gas Vehicles Use Almost 1% of Natural Gas Sold in Europe

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of total natural gas sales within Europe in 2008 (517 billion Nm 3 , according to figures provided by Eurogas). Italy has the largest natural gas fleet, accounting for half of the European total (523,100, 50.3%), followed by Ukraine (120,000, 11.6%), Russia (103,000, 9.9%) and Armenia (101,352 9.75%). (A billion Nm 3 of gas—about 0.9%

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Ricardo study predicts that BRIC automotive markets will be eclipsed by the “Rising-15”

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Ricardo’s Rising-15 automotive markets include: Argentina; Egypt; Indonesia; Iran; Malaysia; Mexico; Morocco; Nigeria; Peru; the Philippines; South Africa; Thailand; Turkey; Ukraine; and Vietnam. Nissan introducing new Datsun in Indonesia. —Andreas Schlosser, Ricardo Strategic Consulting managing director for Central Europe.

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The Heart and the Chip: What Could Go Wrong?

Cars That Think

In the 2008 film Iron Man , he changes his ways because he learns that his company’s specialized weapons are being used by terrorists. At the start of its war against Ukraine, Russia limited its citizens’ access to unbiased news and information in hopes of controlling and shaping the narrative around the conflict.

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