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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy and EV Modern Life

Setec Powerr

A critical element of the transition is to reduce our use of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are expensive and environmentally destructive. In the United States, most of our use of fossil fuels is for transportation. A critical issue in decarbonization will also be the role of the electrical grid itself.

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SHV Energy to market and sell Neste Oil’s biopropane

Green Car Congress

Neste Oil and SHV Energy have agreed that SHV Energy will market and sell biopropane to be produced at Neste Oil’s Rotterdam refinery. Replacing existing fossil fuels with biopropane will result in significant carbon savings. Neste Oil expects the new unit to be producing biopropane at the end of 2016. Earlier post.)

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Can Alt-Fuel Credits Accelerate EV Adoption?

Cars That Think

federal government has mandated that the country’s government-operated planes, trains, and automobiles run on a fuel blend partly made from corn- and soybean-based biofuels. In one way, the program in question—the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)—is a relic from a bygone era. For the past decade and a half, the U.S. Now, it is 2022.

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What about the Pickens Plan?

Plugs and Cars

The good news about electricity as a transportation fuel for cars is finally breaking through to the mainstream. Hydrogen and fuel cells remain decades from meaningful deployment, even their supporters concede. The Arab oil embargo and price increases of the ‘70s pushed the U.S. Meanwhile, in a back to the future moment, T.

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