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Swiss company outlines methanol-to-gasoline option for Alaska North Slope gas to state legislature

Green Car Congress

The resulting methanol would be blended with crude and transported via the trans-Alaska oil pipeline to Valdez, where it would be extracted from the oil and processed via Methanol-to-Gasoline technology into gasoline. van Wijk sold Saturn to Methanex in 2000 due to funding issues. Janus subsidiary acquiring Eastman methanol plant.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Three more points: Both reports match up well with previous studies. The GREET 1.6

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. Lutz said GM is pushing to have Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid on the road by 2009. -- ( Autoweek ). "I 4/06/07 GM spokesman Jeff Holland said Friday that its Saturn Vue sport-utility vehicle will be available as a plug-in by the end of 2009. (

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

E-mail This Print Share Close Linkedin Digg Facebook Mixx My Space Permalink Automobiles , Efficiency , Energy Business , Energy Politics , General Business , The Environment , Transportation , chevy , electric cars , General Motors , obama , volt Related Posts From Green Inc. How about using a competition sailplane for comparison, instead?

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