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Electric motorcycles are gaining momentum

Plug in America

Actor Ewan McGregor and his friend, Charley Boorman, premiered “ Long Way Up ,” which follows them riding from Argentina to Los Angeles on electric Harley-Davidson LiveWire motorcycles. With fewer moving parts, electric motorcycles also have very low fuel and maintenance costs. Credit amount: up to $2,500.

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EIA: US biomass-based diesel imports increased to record levels in 2013; from net exporter to net importer

Green Car Congress

This increase in production during 2013 was driven in part by favorable blending economics by way of the $1.00 per gallon biodiesel blending tax credit, which expired on 31 December 2013. The increase in imports of regular biodiesel were primarily from Argentina, particularly in the final four months (September to December).

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Global biofuels production up 17% in 2010 to hit all-time high of 105 billion liters

Green Car Congress

High oil prices, a global economic rebound, and new laws and mandates in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, and the United States, among other countries, are all factors behind the surge in production, according to research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute’s Climate and Energy Program for the website Vital Signs Online.

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USDA Long-Term Projections See Ongoing But Slower Growth in Corn Use for Ethanol

Green Car Congress

USDA’s projections assume the ethanol tax credit (reduced to $0.45/gallon Less than half this volume is assumed to be from domestic first-use vegetable oils, partly due to the equalization of the biodiesel tax credit ($1.00 Normal weather also is assumed throughout the projection period.

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US EV policy to boost free trade agreement nations in battery metal trade – ET Auto

Baua Electric

sourced battery metals such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel in tax credit-eligible EVs, low domestic production levels are expected to keep the US reliant on foreign producers. Efforts by the Biden administration to establish FTA-like agreements with other key players, including nickel giant Indonesia and Argentina, are underway.

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California Goes To Hell In A Handbasket But Greenius Says AB 811 is Our Route To Green Heaven

Creative Greenius

And damned if California isn’t going to score like a horny Republican Governor on Viagra in Argentina. I then arrange for the right trained contractors to come and do that work and schedule the date with you after helping you navigate the different rebate and tax credit programs available to you.