Tag: ethanol
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March 11, 2007 03:53 PM EDT --
“Bushanol” is not the answer to global warming. Ethanol has been around since the 1920’s and it is no panacea in the fight to slow global warming. Most scientists agree that . . .
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October 30, 2006 12:56 PM EST --
Clinton is hawking the idea of taxing offshore oil drilling companies and using the spoils to fund a government bureaucracy to develop ethanol. "Imagine if we stop being dependent on foreign . . .
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May 10, 2008 11:01 AM EDT --
I love corn, but now, I'm wondering if this is a good idea. Everything I read about Biofuel says that ethanol is more combustable than gasoline. So what are we buttering up to corn . . .
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April 20, 2006 08:27 PM EDT --
America and most of the world seem to be held hostage by middle eastern oil kingdoms in collusion with big oil companies. Pollution from petroleum based fuels is ruining our environment and contributing . . .
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March 01, 2009 09:05 AM EST --
News came this week that USEPA Administrator Lisa Jackson won't decide for several months the tricky issue of how much ethanol should be blended into gasoline. EPA is in discussions with the Department . . .
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August 09, 2009 03:19 PM EDT --
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With prices for crude oil spiking in the recent past, and an unstable Middle East and intensifying effects of climate disruptions, the Obama administration and governments around . . .
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May 01, 2006 12:37 PM EDT --
There are currently about 250 million vehicles on the road in the US. If we buy, and retire, 15 million new cars each year, it will take over sixteen years to completely replace the fleet. . . .
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August 05, 2008 10:11 PM EDT --
The two U.S. Senators from Virginia are Jim Webb, Dem, and John Warner, Republican. They got together this week and joined forces to call for the repeal of the federal ethanol mandate in order to help . . .
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April 09, 2007 11:03 AM EDT --
The recent acceptance in mainstream politics of the threats created by global warming has complicated the already complex issues which Bill Bradley discusses in his chapter on "Oil and the Environment." . . .
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November 20, 2007 09:06 AM EST --
Sea Stachura 's feature Do we buy ethanol (in Minnesota) because we have to? opens with the following:
You're at this Wisconsin gas station. You're scanning the pumps -- octane . . .
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August 07, 2008 02:34 PM EDT --
"EPA denies Texas governor's ethanol waiver request"
Aug 7, 1:34 PM (ET)
By BETSY BLANEY
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) - The Environmental . . .
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May 28, 2006 02:19 PM EDT --
According to the popular press and other media sources, ethanol and ethanol-gasoline blends are going to be the solution to the current and future oil crisis. TV ads point out that corn, one of our . . .
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August 17, 2006 09:20 AM EDT --
While a commentary asserts Minnesota's corn production faces multiple challenges, MPR's garden Weblog author Preston Wright ponders another aspect - the dilemma of corn as food or ethanol:
There . . .
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February 07, 2008 08:39 PM EST --
Here are a couple of news items involving climate change, lest you permit that important political, economic, and environmental topic to stray off your personal radar screen.
Tornadoes
Oh come . . .
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July 10, 2008 12:01 AM EDT --
Right now in the United States, there is a huge push for people to use alternative fuels as opposed to gasoline. There are many reasons for this push. Generally, itís because alternative . . .
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August 28, 2008 07:14 AM EDT --
I have ben orderred to advise you to accept an initial bribe of sixty cents a gallon from The Socialist Republic Of The United States Of America For rackeetring business protection. If we do not . . .
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February 19, 2006 07:38 PM EST --
The article "The Problem with Oil" took a look at the nation's oil balance sheet and illustrated the scope of the problem America is faced with. America imports over half of the crude it . . .
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March 08, 2008 02:33 AM EST --
Okay, we're in a recession, of course your courageous leader and his minions will not tell you this. But then what do they ever tell you? So, the big injection into the economy will be 300-1200 dollars...US...dollars . . .
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July 30, 2007 05:03 PM EDT --
Everyone knows about Ethanol, the renewable alternative to oil. Just a few years ago, Ethanol was primarily used kitchen oil and was only used by and well-known to environmentalists. The . . .
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November 06, 2008 09:38 PM EST --
If we are going to talk about innovations, my view is that it is important for us to push technologies that actually have the potential to solve problems. Consider the following:
Nov. 6 . . .
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