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USA Today Info Graphic Outlines Gasoline Price Elasticity
It speaks for itself.
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Free Prius to SUV Owners
OK, this post’s title is a lie… but it’s almost true. (I should go into politics.) An owner of a large SUV achieving only 15 miles per gallon in mixed driving will consume 10,000 gallons of gasoline over a 150,000 mile vehicle life. (Example: A 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee, 4WD, 5-spd Automatic, 4.7L 8cyl engine,…
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Biodiesel Market Dynamics in Portland
A Daily Journal of Commerce article suggests that the capital investment to distribute biodiesel in various blends coupled with the City of Portland mandate, might force some distributors to choose either to invest or get out of the City.
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Food versus Fuel
Via Planetizen: The Morality of Biofuels “Last September, Lester Brown, the president of the Earth Policy Institute wrote in a Washington Post opinion piece that the amount of grain needed to make enough ethanol to fill a 25-gallon SUV tank ‘would feed one person for a full year. If the United States converted its entire…
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Get Your B20
According to the Daily Journal of Commerce, the Jubitz Travel Center on Tuesday became the first truck stop in Oregon to sell B20 biodiesel. The retail and commercial fuel station, located east of Interstate 5 near exit 307 in Portland, has transitioned all of its retail diesel pumps to the 20 percent biodiesel blend four…