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Belfer Center Brief Urges Higher, Stable Energy Prices to Achieve Long-Term Energy Policy Objectives

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The brief concentrates on six topics: climate change policy, carbon capture and storage policy, oil security policy, energy-technology innovation policy, electricity market structure, and infrastructure policy. Climate change policy. Oil security policy. Acting in Time on Energy Policyā€¯.

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Study concludes significant additional transport policy interventions will be required for Europe to meet its GHG reduction goal

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This is even the case under widespread adoption of the most promising technologies for all transportation modes, due primarily to limitations in biofuel production capacity and a lack of technologies that would drastically reduce CO 2 emissions from heavy trucks and intercontinental aviation, they found. R&D plus electric vehicle subsidy.

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Refiners and Truckers Associations Challenge California LCFS in Federal Court

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The NPRA complaint claims that the LCFS violates the Commerce Clause because: It directly regulates interstate and foreign commerce and extraterritorial conduct, including the extraction, production and transport of transportation fuels and fuel feedstocks outside of California. Tags: Climate Change Fuels Policy. LCFS Complaint.

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MIT/RAND Study Concludes Three Types of Alternative Jet Fuel May Be Available in Commercial Quantities Over the Next Decade

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Production of commercial quantities of HRJ depends on the availability of appropriate feedstocks at competitive prices. Other key findings from the report include: Alternative-fuel production benefits commercial aviation regardless of its use in aviation. Alternative jet fuels will have a limited impact on fuel price volatility.

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Mixed Outlook for Mainstream Consumer Adoption of PHEVs

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It allows supplier and manufacturer cost reduction through multiple product generation. Given high initial costs, volatile oil prices, improving competition, an industry in poor financial shape and consumers who arenā€™t perfectly rational.who actually are quite risk averse.advanced technology may be a hard sell. Ken Kurani.

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Stanford, UC Santa Cruz study explores ramifications of demand-driven peak to conventional oil

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In contrast to arguments that peak conventional oil production is imminent due to physical resource scarcity, a team from Stanford University and UC Santa Cruz has examined the alternative possibility of reduced oil use due to improved efficiency and oil substitution. Emissions Forecasts Fuels Oil'

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Study finds no alternative to widespread switching of direct fuel uses to electricity to meet 2050 California GHG targets; putting detail in climate wedges

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forecasts of population and gross state product, combined. petroleum products, which fall from 45% to 15%. reduction in fuel costs even with electricity prices doubled. and oil prices at $100/barrel, as well as shifting cash flows. away from foreign oil imports toward domestic purchases of.

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