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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

Plugs and Cars

Veteran automakers, oil companies, and federal and state governments have been both the prime movers and obstacles to plug-in cars in the past and they remain so today. Secretary Chu is a big advocate, having brought in hundreds of millions of oil company dollars for biofuel research to the universities with which he has been affiliated.

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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects

Green Car Congress

Partners include Algenesis, BASF, Pepsi, Reef, and University of California – Davis. Iowa State University (Ames, IA) - Modular Catalytic Reactors for Single-Use Polyolefin Conversion to Lubricating Oils from Upcycled Plastics (LOUPs) – DOE Funding: $2,500,000.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

Don Paul is the Executive Director, University of Southern California Energy Institute and a former vice president and chief technology officer of Chevron. Dr. Paul addressed a positive change—the days of increasing US oil consumption may be over. “ M barrels/day of oil within the next 10 years ”. Details Behind the Conference.

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California ARB staff hosting first meeting of Low Carbon Fuel Standard advisory panel

Green Car Congress

John Reese, Shell Oil Products US. James Uihlein, Chevron Corporation. Sonia Yeh, University of California, Davis. Ralph Moran, BP America, Inc. Allan Morrison, California Department of Food and Agriculture. Simon Mui, National Resources Defense Council. Michelle Passero, The Nature Conservancy. Jurgen Weiss, The Brattle Group.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Several global indicators on the supply of oil and the known carbon pollution environmental damages its caused all lead us to find cleaner ways of transportation. You also repeat the "peak oil" argument that Ive been reading since the 60s. We have oil! Simmons ; "Hot, Flat & Crowded by Thomas L.