Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2017

Improving the efficiency of road-freight transport is critical to reducing the growth in oil demand, carbon emissions and air pollution over the next decades, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest report, The Future of Trucks: Implications for energy and the environment.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2010

Growth of production of Canadian oil sands. The Canadian oil sands are now poised to become the number one source of US crude oil imports in 2010, according to new research from the IHS CERA Canadian Oil Sands Dialogue. The Role of Canadian Oil Sands in US Oil Supply”. Conventional oil uses 0.1

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2010

Natural gas will play a leading role in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions over the next several decades, largely by replacing older, inefficient coal plants with highly efficient combined-cycle gas generation, according to a major new interim report out from MIT. The first two reports dealt with nuclear power (2003) and coal (2007).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

Meeting the goal of cutting US oil dependence depends largely on two things, Obama said: finding and producing more oil at home, and reducing dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency. The Administration is pushing the oil industry to produce on leases already held.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2012

The inventory also forecasts that BC emissions in China in 2050 will be 920–2,183 Gg/yr under various scenarios, with the industrial and transportation sectors standing to benefit the most from technological improvements. In addition, predicted oil consumption for use in motor vehicles between 2008 and 2050 were used to develop the inventory.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2009

World production of fossil fuels—oil, coal, and natural gas—increased 2.9% million tons of oil equivalent (Mtoe) per day, according to a Worldwatch Institute analysis. Energy prices reflected this shift: oil peaked at $144 per barrel in July, then fell to $34 per barrel in December. Oil production reached 10.7

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2009

The MOU with AltAir contemplates the production and purchase of up to 750 million gallons of jet fuel and diesel fuel over 10 years (75 million gallons per year) derived from camelina oil. Our intention as an airline industry is to continue to do our part by supporting the use of alternative fuels. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2013

This decision follows an investment decision in 2011 on a similar corridor in Alberta, Canada. Once operational, this unit will supply LNG along the Mississippi River, the Intra-Coastal Waterway and to the offshore Gulf of Mexico and the onshore oil and gas exploration areas of Texas and Louisiana. Earlier post.) Gulf Coast.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Freight rail ton-miles grow by 20% during the same period, led primarily by rising industrial output. However, US coal shipments, which are primarily via rail, decline slightly. US energy export growth is driven largely by petroleum exports including crude oil and products, and by additional liquefied natural gas exports.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

TCX is the company’s new proprietary technology for ethanol production that builds on its acetyl platform and integrates new technologies to produce ethanol using basic hydrocarbon feedstocks—natural gas, coal and pet coke now, with biomass and waste planned for the future. Earlier post.). Source: Celanese. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Researchers at the University of Calgary (Canada) have developed the Petroleum Refinery Life-cycle Inventory Model (PRELIM). As background, they noted that the petroleum refining industry is the second-largest stationary emitter of GHG in the US, and the third-largest in the world. Credit: ACS, Abella and Bergerson. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

The regulation also levies the calculation of Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) effects against biofuels, against the opposition of the biofuels industry.( It will protect us from volatile oil prices and provide consumers with cleaner fuels and provide the nation with greater energy security. Earlier post.). NPRA President Charles T.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

Development of a North American training facility to meet the needs of a growing CCS industry and regulators, based primarily at the University of Regina and Montana State University. The estimated of the total cost of the project in Canadian dollars is $270 million (US$231 million).

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Consumers and industries may be encouraged to shift their energy use to times when renewable energy production is high, helping to balance supply and demand on the grid. For example, solar and wind power do not deplete finite resources like coal, oil, and natural gas, contributing to more sustainable resource management.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Crude and lease condensate includes tight oil, shale oil, extra-heavy crude oil, field condensate, and bitumen (i.e., oil sands, either diluted or upgraded). Other liquids refer to natural gas plant liquids (NGPL), biofuels (including biomass-to-liquids [BTL]), gas-to-liquids (GTL), coal-to-liquids (CTL), kerogen (i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Change in primary oil demand by sector and region in the central New Policies Scenario, 2010-2035. Under the WEO 2011 central scenario, oil demand rises from 87 million barrels per day (mb/d) in 2010 to 99 mb/d in 2035, with all the net growth coming from the transport sector in emerging economies. Click to enlarge. billion in 2035.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Russia is the world’s second largest producer of crude oil, behind the United States and ahead of Saudi Arabia, and its second largest exporter, behind Saudi Arabia. On 28 February, British Petroleum announced it would divest itself of its nearly 20 percent share of Rosneft , Russia’s state oil company. Consumption of E.U.-produced

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% ” [ 1 ]. ºF) increase. Earlier post.)

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Driivz

MARCH 31, 2021

Renewable energy was the main source of energy before the discovery of oil, coal, and natural gas. Iceland, Norway, Canada, Sweden, New Zealand, and Austria were the global leaders in hydroelectric as of 2019. It comes from natural sources that continuously regenerate, such as sunlight, wind, water (in motion), and geothermal.

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Plug In India

MARCH 5, 2023

Petrol heads and EV cynics can’t stand the fact that multiple governments all over the world are phasing out Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles and promoting EV’s to achieve oil independence and promote clean air for their citizens. Why should the government interfere? The answer is simple.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The challenge now is to implement gigatonne scale reductions across the economy, in power generation, energy efficiency, transport and industry, as well as REDD+ in forested nations. PwC divides the G20 into three blocks: G7 economies (US, Japan, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Canada). —PwC report.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

A really significant efficiency increase will be realized, and in combination with the new “variable&# alternators from Vancouver, Canada, major wind power efficiencies can be anticipated! What I do need is an affordable alternative to Lead Acid. other better transmission systems will be a lark! About Gas 2.0 on It’s On!

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

Andrew Frank is a significant industry dignitary credited as being the “Inventor” (or “Father”) of the modern day Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle. The combination of harvesting whole forests and burning long-sequestered carbon sources such as coal or oil has impaired the Earth’s carbon cycle at an increasing pace.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

used cooking oil (with and without cooking), and corn oil biodiesel. Eight new Midwest corn ethanol pathways proposed by Archer Daniels Midland describe a new very efficient plant using varying combinations of natural gas, coal, and biomass for process fuel. sugar industry as a feedstock; and. soluble; and. soluble; and.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel. The vision is fuelled by the fear of climate change and the need to find green alternatives to dirty coal, unpopular nuclear power and unreliable gas imports from Russia.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

’s expertise on the auto industry in general, we are concerned that in its understanding of future pathways, it offers a flawed analysis and predictions based on business-as-usual,&# notes a posting on the California Car Initiative’s Web site. Those cars will reduce oil demand at most by about 1/5th of one percent.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

By partnering with these two industries. I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil," he says, sitting beside a massive V-16 engine on display in his office. This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). This is unusual. GM Press Release ).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Even if you charge your EV with electricity made from coal fired generators you reduce your car’s pollution by half. Air travel will be limited to extremely expensive intercontinental and military flights to conserve oil, and nuclear developments will be for military purposes only for national security.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 26, 2021

To that end, the CES, over its non-indicative name (it has little in common with, for instance, Canada's Clean Fuel Standard ) is more than just carbon bookkeeping. Then again, it's hard to understate just how far renewable energy costs have fallen.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

GM killed that car because of back room deals with oil companies, and now they expect us to believe that they are just so cutting edge now? GM killed that car because of back room deals with oil companies" GM "killed" that experiment because it wasnt even CLOSE to being cost effective. It is 12 years later. GM would only lease them.

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