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Opinion: Consumers winning with low oil prices, for now

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Lest we be too quick to forget whence we came, America is now 9-months into lower gasoline prices, which started their swoon the week of June 30, 2015 from a lofty national average just under $3.70, tumbling almost every subsequent week before bottoming and bouncing from $2.02 the end of January, according to gasbuddy.com.

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Greyrock to build small-scale gas-to-liquids plant near Houston

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The plant will be commercially operational by the end of 2015. The project is being funded by a consortium of investors led by Dallas based Sterling Private Capital and Eagle Oil & Gas Co. The project is being funded by a consortium of investors led by Dallas based Sterling Private Capital and Eagle Oil & Gas Co.

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Alon USA receives go ahead for Bakersfield, CA rail terminal and refinery project; Bakken light crude

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Construction of the rail facility is expected to be completed by the end of 2015. Current products include gas oil, gasoline, diesel fuel, and petroleum coke. Alon intends to resume operation of several existing process units under existing permits, including a return to crude oil refining. Background. Alon USA Energy, Inc.,

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Daimler Trucks NA SuperTruck achieves 115% freight efficiency improvement over 2009 baseline; 50.2% engine BTE

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DTNA’s SuperTruck was unveiled at the 2015 Mid-America Trucking Show. DTNA unveiled its SuperTruck at the 2015 Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) in the Freightliner Trucks booth. Friction-reducing measures include a variable speed water pump, a clutched air compressor, low-viscosity oil and an improved cylinder kit. Earlier post.)

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

Cars That Think

He was the 2014–2015 chair of the IEEE Seoul Section. before joining Texas Instruments in Dallas. He researched how electromagnetic fields interact with materials, and he developed a method for magnetically separating oil and water, as well as a system that detects buried dielectric, magnetic, and conducting devices such as land mines.

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Wal-Mart Testing Two Different Hybrid Systems and Three Alt Fuels on Class 8 Trucks

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The five Peterbilt Model 386 heavy duty diesel-electric hybrids are being tested in Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Southern California and the Baltimore/Washington DC region. distribution center will operate on an 80/20 blend of biodiesel made of waste yellow cooking oil. Reclaimed Grease Fuel and Biodiesel. Earlier post.).

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Opinion: Blaming Rising Fuel Prices on High Temps is Dumb

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& Over the past week, countless media outlets published stories about how oil refineries have had to scale back production targets to contend with exceedingly high temperatures. In July, for example, Saudi Arabia starting reducing how much oil it sends to the global economy by 1 million barrels each day. Today’s U.S.

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