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Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion

Cars That Think

The goal is to keep the lights on at a low cost by utilizing an efficient mix of power plants. In December 2022, Winter Storm Elliott disabled power plants and pipelines from North Dakota to Georgia, leading to power outages in the South and billions of dollars in excess energy charges across the Eastern United States.

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Electric vehicles are inflation relief

Electric Auto Association

Comparison vehicle based on size and price: VW GTI S DATA: MSRP for both vehicles is $25,600 (before incentives and resale value). Austin Energy (Austin, TX) DTE Energy (Detroit, MI) Duquesne Light Co. The cost of gas over the first 5 years of the car @ $3.58/gal gal would be $12,785.

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Argonne analysis shows greenhouse gas emissions similar for shale, conventional oil

Green Car Congress

The research, conducted by Argonne researchers in collaboration with Stanford University and the University of California, Davis, analyzed the Eagle Ford shale formation in Texas and the Bakken play mainly in North Dakota. Light crude oil trapped in rock, such as shale, is called tight oil.

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US State Department Issues Permit for Alberta Clipper Pipeline for Oil Sands Crude Delivery to US

Green Car Congress

Construction in the United States will consist of two components that would have independent utility: the Alberta Clipper Pipeline itself and the Southern Lights Diluent Pipeline. Petroleum exploration and exploitation, by comparison, has gotten a free pass.

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DOE Selects 8 Projects to Advance Technologies for the Co-Production of Power and Hydrogen, Fuels or Chemicals from Coal-Biomass Feedstocks

Green Car Congress

and the University of North Dakota Energy and Environment Research Center in Grand Forks, N.D., Princeton will design, simulate, and analyze 20 process configurations to enable meaningful cross-configuration comparisons and insights into the potential impacts of advanced technologies. (Tucker, Ga.)

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Sandia releases literature survey of crude oil properties relevant to handling and fire safety in transport

Green Car Congress

Much of the US’ new abundant domestic oil and gas supply is being produced from unconventional resources—particularly light sweet crude oil from the Bakken shale in North Dakota, as well as the Eagle Ford and Permian Basins in Texas. This rapid growth has also created challenges in moving crude oil to market.

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State Department releases Keystone XL Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement

Green Car Congress

The earlier 2011 Final EIS was developed contemporaneously with the start of strong growth in domestic light crude oil supply from tight oil formations, such as those formations found in North Dakota’s Bakken region. Domestic production of crude oil has increased significantly, from approximately 5.5 million bpd in 2010 to 6.5

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