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Biodiesel in Other People’s Equipment
Here’s a dilema: you’d like to use biodiesel in all your equipment, but you don’t own it all. That leads to the question that rental equipment companies are now apparently faced with (according to an article in the Daily Journal of Commerce): what to do when your rental customer asks if he can use B99?
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Freight to Double in 30 Years
As reported in the Daily Journal of Commerce, a new study from the Port of Portland predicts that freight volumes will double in 30 years. Just to keep things in perspective, Metro’s projections show that even with increased truck freight, trucks will still be a single-digit percentage of vehicles on the road. Let’s not take…
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Whoops! Did I say that?
Update: 12/18/06 Rex’s piece ran as an op-ed in today’s O, with a response piece from Gregg Weston of OTAK. Gregg’s comeback is that we should set “audacious goals” for transportation. Hmmm… should our transportation goals be audacious? Or should our transportation goals be modest and our land use goals audacious? Or some combination thereof?…