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Cheap oil, expensive gasoline
Lately, it seems like every other day there is a report about how the middle of the country is “awash in cheap oil,” thanks to an oil production boom. Conversely, consumers are still paying record-high...
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Cheaper oil: chaos or prosperity?
Could “Falling oil prices could spark global turmoil?” Steve Hargreaves seems to think so in his piece by that name published on CNNMoney. While mentioning some economic benefits of falling oil prices,...
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Oil trader profits financed by your gas dollar
Given the way oil prices have increased in recent years it appears that the old axiom “what goes up, must come down” no longer applies to oil prices. Judging by the amount of oil trading in the...
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The corn state stands up for ethanol
With ethanol under siege in Congress, Iowa – which produces more ethanol than any other state – has stepped up with a defense claiming that corn ethanol is reducing gasoline prices by more than 29...
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If Mother Jones and the Wall Street Journal can agree on this
When Nobel Laureate George Olah wrote his Wall Street Journal op ed recently announcing a new process that can turn coal exhausts into methanol, it reverberated all the way across the political...
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Ford Leads the Way
The Ford Motor Company stepped front-and-center in the effort to fine alternatives to high-priced imported oil last week with the announcement that it will offer compressed natural gas (CNG) tank as an...
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A Thanksgiving Feast of Alternatives
“Over the river and through the wood To grandmother’s house we go. The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh\ Through white and drifted snow.” Thanksgiving has come and gone, Christmas is coming, and...
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There’s Gold in Them Thar’ Flares
Walter Breidenstein may be the only CEO in America who still answers the company phone himself. If his operation is still something of a shoestring, it’s because he’s spent four years trying to duel...
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No Sex-Just Smirking; No Lies-Just No Strategic Thinking; No Videotapes- Just...
According to several well-known writers of blogs and columns, based on a recent study by North Carolina State University, EDV’s (electric cars, hybrids and plug ins) are not all they are cracked up to...
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Hawks Are Out Again: Mistakenly Casting Doubt on Ethanol
The Hawks are out again. One of my favorite service organizations, the American Automobile Association (AAA), in conjunction with media outlets, has again attacked the use of ethanol in cars. It’s...
View ArticleThere’s Gold in Them Thar’ Flares
Walter Breidenstein may be the only CEO in America who still answers the company phone himself. If his operation is still something of a shoestring, it’s because he’s spent four years trying to duel...
View ArticleNo Sex-Just Smirking; No Lies-Just No Strategic Thinking; No Videotapes- Just...
According to several well-known writers of blogs and columns, based on a recent study by North Carolina State University, EDV’s (electric cars, hybrids and plug ins) are not all they are cracked up to...
View ArticleHawks Are Out Again: Mistakenly Casting Doubt on Ethanol
The Hawks are out again. One of my favorite service organizations, the American Automobile Association (AAA), in conjunction with media outlets, has again attacked the use of ethanol in cars. It’s...
View ArticleWorldwide gasoline demand going to drop after 2021
Even as electric vehicles gain in popularity, we’re told again and again that internal combustion engines aren’t going away. While that may be true, it would still be nice to kick our addiction to...
View ArticleUS gasoline demand soars, as ethanol blending dips
In the US, ethanol production for the week before last averaged 902,000 barrels per day, or 37.88 million gallons daily. The four-week average for ethanol production stood at 940,000 b/d for an...
View ArticleRefinery issues cause gas prices to rise
Average retail gasoline prices in Fort Wayne have risen 11.1 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.53 a gallon Sunday, Augus t10, 2014 according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 201 gas outlets...
View ArticleOregon’s gas prices the most expensive in the lower 48
Our rank: Oregon’s gas prices are third most expensive in the nation for the second week in a row. Only Hawaii ($4.30) and Alaska ($4.06) are more expensive, making Oregon’s prices the most expensive...
View ArticleTo Use Less Oil, We Need To Think About Cars As Software Platforms
FastCoExist.com Some time in the future–perhaps a decade from now–we’ll all be driving around in electric cars (probably). Battery technology will have evolved to allow longer trips on a single charge,...
View ArticleJason Bateman Narrates ‘Pump’
FanBoyNation.com PUMP is an inspiring, eye-opening documentary that tells the story of America’s addiction to oil, from its corporate pump 2conspiracy beginnings to its current monopoly today, and...
View ArticleHere’s what Americans are telling us about the price of gas
We asked, and you delivered. At the start of our “Share Your Story” campaign, Fuel Freedom Foundation sent out the call: Tell us how volatile gasoline prices, which peak and plunge without warning or...
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