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Go60MPG Launches Radio Advertising Aimed At Law Makers

Go60MPG Launches Radio Advertising Aimed At Law Makers

Washington, July, 25, 2011; With a decision imminent from the Obama Administration on new fuel efficiency and emissions standards for 2017-2025 vehicles, Go60MPG is launching a radio advertising campaign encouraging Americans to deliver the message to the White House that the best way to offer relief at the gas pump is ... Continue reading

Honda Picks Environmental Consulting Firm to Promote Civic Natural Gas Sedan on U.S. East Coast

Honda Picks Environmental Consulting Firm to Promote Civic Natural Gas Sedan on U.S. East Coast

Honda has selected an environmental consulting firm to support market development for the Civic Natural Gas in 19 states spanning the Mid-West to Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions including the District of Columbia. Below are more details. Gladstein, Neandross & Associates Selected By American Honda to Promote the Hon ... Continue reading

An Liquefied Natural Gas Liquefaction Capacity of 187.4 Million Metric Tons Per Annum Will Be Added Globally by 2016

An Liquefied Natural Gas Liquefaction Capacity of 187.4 Million Metric Tons Per Annum Will Be Added Globally by 2016

LONDON--An LNG liquefaction capacity of 187.4 million metric tons per annum (MMtpa) is expected to be added globally by 2016, according to a new report on companiesandmarkets.com. The increase in LNG liquefaction capacity is attributed to major planned LNG terminals in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Iran, Angola, Russia ... Continue reading

Automakers Lobby Works to Stall Higher MPG Standards

Automakers Lobby Works to Stall Higher MPG Standards

Washington DC July 21, 2011; The NADA newsletter reported that the auto industry is pressing the Obama administration for a promise to reevaluate rules that may more than double U.S. fuel economy standards by 2025 before they become final. The White House agrees that a review during the transition period is needed, sai ... Continue reading

LPG (CNG) Saves 40% of Converted Mazda 6 Running Costs

LPG (CNG) Saves 40% of Converted Mazda 6 Running Costs

LPG GIVEN FLEET BOOST AFTER MAZDA DEMO Autogas has seen a surge in interest from fleet managers following the conversion of a Mazda 6 to run on LPG. Autogas and Mazda invited fleet managers to get behind the wheel of the converted Mazda 6 LPG and discover how they can run a greener fleet whilst saving up to 40 per cent ... Continue reading

Top American CNG Producer Chesapeake Energy Unveils Bold Plan to Break the OPEC-Gasoline Stranglehold on Our Economy - VIDEO ENHANCED

Top American CNG Producer Chesapeake Energy Unveils Bold Plan to Break the OPEC-Gasoline Stranglehold on Our Economy - VIDEO ENHANCED

OKLAHOMA CITY--In an effort to help break OPEC's 38-year stranglehold on the U.S. economy and to lower energy costs to American consumers, enhance national security, stimulate economic growth, create hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs and improve the environment, Chesapeake Energy Corporation today unveiled its ... Continue reading

Cyclone Power Technologies Files Registration with Securities and Exchange Commission

Cyclone Power Technologies Files Registration with Securities and Exchange Commission

Cyclone Power Technologies (Pink Sheets: CYPW), developer of the all-fuel, clean-tech Cyclone Engine, announced today that it has filed a Form 10 registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission. No shares of the Company's stock have been registered for sale or resale under this filing. ... Continue reading

Biotechnology Industry Organization Calls for Government Backed Leadership

Biotechnology Industry Organization Calls for Government Backed Leadership

The 2011 Leadership Summit, hosted by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), addressed the economic obstacles and environmental impacts for biotechnologies in transforming how food, fuel and other products are produced. ... Continue reading

"Number One" Is Done, Make OPEC "Number Two" - An Open Letter To President Obama

"Number One" Is Done, Make OPEC "Number Two" - An Open Letter To President Obama

4-5 dollar gasoline, OPEC screwing up the American economy, oli company getting 10 billion in subsidies from the government... its all gotta stop. ... Continue reading

Ford eNews - Week Ending June 24, 2011

Ford eNews - Week Ending June 24, 2011

Fantasy baseball fans can now catch the latest stats, courtesy of their car Ford SYNC®, the company's award-winning, hands-free in-vehicle connectivity system, offers access to on-demand weekly fantasy baseball updates through available Traffic, Directions and Information. ... Continue reading

Ryder Delivers Five Natural Gas Powered Delivery Trucks--Part of A Public/Private Project to Put More Natural Gas Powered Vehicles on the Road

Ryder Delivers Five Natural Gas Powered Delivery Trucks--Part of A Public/Private Project to Put More Natural Gas Powered Vehicles on the Road

Ryder System, Inc. announced delivery of five natural gas-fueled delivery vehicles to Dean Foods, Ryder's first customer for natural gas commercial vehicles made available through Ryder's agreement with the San Bernardino Associated Governments (SANBAG) in Southern California. The $38.7 million effort is part of a join ... Continue reading

Fuel Created By Cows Makes Dairy Farm Trucks Run Cleaner

Fuel Created By Cows Makes Dairy Farm Trucks Run Cleaner

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. announced today that it has received a contract in the amount of $434,000 for high capacity natural gas on-board storage tanks from Agility Fuel Systems for use in Class 8 renewable natural gas powered dairy trucks. The tanks will be installed on Kenworth T800 Class 8 t ... Continue reading

FactCheck.Org: Playing Politics with Gasoline Prices

FactCheck.Org: Playing Politics with Gasoline Prices

FactCheck.org says Democrats and Republicans disagree on energy policy, but this they share: Both shade the facts on the complex issue for political advantage. ■Republicans say repealing oil industry tax breaks will drive up costs at the pump. However, nonpartisan congressional analysts and industry experts say hig ... Continue reading

What's New With EVs and Other Green Vehicles? Not Much!

What's New With EVs and Other Green Vehicles? Not Much!

Not much, say experts at Automotive News conference this week By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau We spent a couple days this week talking about electric cars, and listening to experts and advocates talk about the future of automotive electrification as well as many other kinds of environmentally friendly ... Continue reading

ENN Group and Duke Energy Helped the Environment and Won Asia Society Washington's International Business Award

ENN Group and Duke Energy Helped the Environment and Won Asia Society Washington's International Business Award

The Asia Society of Washington D.C. will recognize two energy industry executives at its annual awards ceremony on June 15th at the Washington Ritz-Carlton. Chinese entrepreneur Wang Yusuo, Chairman of ENN Group (Langfang, Hebei Province), and Duke Energy President and CEO Jim Rogers (Charlotte, N.C.) are jointly recei ... Continue reading

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