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Lux Research provides snapshot of oil majors’ investments in alternative fuels; BP leads investment frequency

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Lux Research has investigated the trends of corporate financing of alternative fuels from oil majors, based on a non-exhaustive database of more than 1,000 deals and partnership engagements from 2000 through September, 2014. Total and Chevron are the most active corporate investors in the fermentation domain.

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Opinion: Why Buffett Bet A Billion On Solar: Miles Per Acre Per Year

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But suppose your new car is up to current Chinese standards (~35 mpg). Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell cannot stop this; they will begin to bleed trillions of miles per year. They had better think seriously about financing solar and wind arrays. Ethanol packs about 70 percent of the punch of gasoline, so you actually need 1.4

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