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SHV Energy to market and sell Neste Oil’s biopropane

Green Car Congress

Neste Oil and SHV Energy have agreed that SHV Energy will market and sell biopropane to be produced at Neste Oil’s Rotterdam refinery. Replacing existing fossil fuels with biopropane will result in significant carbon savings. Neste Oil expects the new unit to be producing biopropane at the end of 2016.

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Can Alt-Fuel Credits Accelerate EV Adoption?

Cars That Think

A more recent study found that, since the program coaxed farmers into using more land for corn cultivation, RFS biofuel wasn’t actually any less carbon-intensive than gasoline. Amidst a backdrop of rising fuel prices, the Biden administration might bring the RFS its greatest shakeup yet. In 2016, a U.S. Now, it is 2022.

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What about the Pickens Plan?

Plugs and Cars

Boone Pickens is spending tens of millions of dollars promoting CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) as the bridge fuel to get the U.S. The Arab oil embargo and price increases of the ‘70s pushed the U.S. Today, less than 2% of American electrons are produced with oil. And today natural gas is a critical fuel for electricity generation.

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