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Alliance AutoGas launches 5300-mile, 12-city Coast-to-Coast Clean Air Ride with converted F-150

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Supported by partners, Clean City Coalitions and corporate sponsors, Alliance AutoGas is embarking on a 5300+ mile, 12-city, cross-country road trip—the Alliance AutoGas Coast-to-Coast Clean Air Ride —with its record-setting propane autogas F-150. Alliance’s new Engineered Conversion System, installed on a Bi-Fuel 2016 3.5-liter

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Plains All American to build $900M, 200K bpd pipeline from Cushing to Memphis

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will construct the Diamond Pipeline, a 440-mile (708 km), 20-inch crude oil pipeline that will provide capacity of up to 200,000 barrels per day of domestic sweet crude from the Plains Cushing, Okla. The total project investment is expected to be approximately $900 million and is expected to be completed in late 2016.

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Zipline reaches 500,000 automated drone delivery milestone

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The autonomous drones, which operate as small planes instead of helicopters like other competitors, are launched from delivery locations and have an operating range of 50 miles. According to one of the company’s co-founders, Keller Cliffton, the drones had traveled a combined 36 million miles.

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US vehicle miles travelled up 3% in first 9 months of 2016 to 2.4 trillion miles

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trillion miles in the first nine months of 2016, an increase of 3.0% billion miles were driven in September 2016 alone—a 2.4% increase compared with August 2016. billion miles were driven in September 2016 alone—a 2.4% increase compared with August 2016. billion miles.

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Walmart demonstrates how drones are the future of grocery delivery

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According to Zipline, each drone has an operational range of 50 miles from any launch point and has already proven itself in nearly a quarter million commercial deliveries worldwide since 2016. Walmart is completing initial testing in its home state of Arkansas, and Zipline has expanded to numerous other sectors.

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