Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Key findings of the updated study include: Alaska, Spirit, Frontier, and Southwest Airlines remained the top four most fuel-efficient airlines on US domestic operations in 2014. On average, Alaska has operated the most efficient US domestic flights for five years running since 2010.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Alaska Airlines will fly 75 commercial passenger flights in the United States powered by a biofuel blend, starting this Wednesday. Alaska Airlines and its sister carrier, Horizon Air, will continue to operate select flights between Seattle and the two cities over the next few weeks using a 20% blend of renewable biofuel.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

The Proposed Final Program offers 11 potential lease sales in four planning areas—10 sales in the portions of three Gulf of Mexico Program Areas that are not under moratorium and one sale off the coast of Alaska in the Cook Inlet Program Area. The vast majority of US offshore oil production occurs in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Electrek

APRIL 26, 2021

Oil production in Alaska reaches lowest level in more than 40 years. Tesla now offers price matching, so it’s important to shop for the best quotes. In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The head of the UK’s MI6 says it checks that industrial nations are “playing fair” on climate change promises.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Oil is a strategic commodity second to none—it underlies the global economy and even the American way of life. Of course, other countries benefit from this fact, with about $900 million flowing out of the US to buy foreign oil every day, and about 40% of that going to OPEC. [ Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 22, 2012

Over the past few months, gas prices have been creeping ever upward, fueled by political uncertainty in the Middle East and a reduction in U.S. oil refining capabilities. In California, a state traditionally plagued by high gas prices, a gallon of Regular now costs well over $4.50 at most gas stations.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2012

However, the rise in gasoline demand occurred in spite of higher gasoline prices, which actually pushed down demand for reformulated gasoline used in urban areas and encouraged more use of public transit. Imports of crude oil and refined products fell in March by 6.6% Crude oil production rose by 4.7% to average 10.6

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Geothermal power is expanding across the Western half of the country, and new scientific and technological advancements offering the opportunity to produce geothermal power from Hawaii and Alaska to Texas and the Gulf States, with the ultimate potential being generating electrical power in nearly every state.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2011

While consumer demand for gasoline was weak during this winter holiday season, higher prices and bad weather might have kept people off the roads. Domestic crude oil production rose by 1.3% Lower-48 crude production was up while Alaska production slipped slightly. December 2010 crude oil and product imports, at 10.6

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2011

The BP/Davy fixed-bed FT process has been successfully demonstrated in Nikiski, Alaska, with full-scale fixed-bed reaction tubes where the nominal 300 barrel per day complex met or exceeded all of its performance targets. The EPC contractors were chosen after conducting a competitive bidding and ranking process. Davy Process Technology Ltd.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Oil-by-rail. California refineries have increasingly turned to foreign sources of crude oil as production in California and Alaska has declined. On the other hand, there has been a rebound in US oil production as a whole due to the widespread use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2011

The resulting methanol would be blended with crude and transported via the trans-Alaska oil pipeline to Valdez, where it would be extracted from the oil and processed via Methanol-to-Gasoline technology into gasoline. Methanol-to-gasoline process flow diagram. Source: EMRE. Click to enlarge. billion, he said.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2011

Established hydroprocessing technologies to produce aviation fuels from natural oils. supply chains for sustainable aviation fuels utilizing oils from oilseed crops such as camelina, as well as algae and biomass. Natural bio-oils have carbon chain lengths that are in the diesel range, 16-18 carbon atoms in the hydrocarbon.

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Noodoe

JANUARY 7, 2022

Electric buses have no oil to change, spark plugs to check, or emission guidelines that regulate them. However, numerous programs want to reduce that burden for school districts by offering assistant to offset the purchase prices. This comes from expenses for fuel and maintenance, including routine and non-routine checks and upgrades.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2011

a renewable oil and bioproducts company, will help Dynamic Fuels fulfill the contract, which the Navy and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) report is the single largest purchase of biofuel in US government history. DLA will pay half the price for the Green Strike Group biofuel than it paid for biofuel for testing in 2009.

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Plugs and Cars

NOVEMBER 28, 2006

While priced dearly at $100,000 for the first 100 vehicles, the car’s specs are so impressive and the company so well capitalized that it received prominent coverage across the nation, including the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle. Oil prices peaked once again at over $75 a barrel. Not Dead Yet” indeed.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Just as wireless service providers offer smartphones at discounted prices, Project Better Place will offer discounted electric vehicles with usage pricing plans. Millions of EVs and PHEVs would expand the sale of electricity as an alternative to oil. No more Big OIL - think of the extra money stimulating the economy!

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 23, 2011

Gas prices go up and down, lately more up than down. government has decided to release a portion of its strategic petroleum reserve, just as crude-oil prices continued a decline that started several weeks ago. Gas prices vary enormously from state to state, due to geography--it costs a lot to get liquid fuel to Alaska and.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2013

The mandatory funds would be set aside from royalty revenues generated by oil and gas development in Federal waters of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), already included in the administration’s five-year plan. Oil dependence is one of the greatest threats to U.S. —A National Strategy For Energy Security.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

Environmentalists and industries resurrected the idea in recent years as a centerpiece of measures to address global warming and growing oil imports. RGGI proves that a regional market-based price on power-sector emissions is both possible and effective in the United States. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 30, 2010

My own legacy Democratic Senator, the ancient Diane Feinstein, who I have supported and voted for, along with gun-ho Virgina Senator Webb, who I helped get elected, are just as ready to roll over and sell out your kids as Republican nutcase Senator Inhofe and the corrupt and immoral Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski.

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