Big Oil Woos Big Corn To Fight Off Biden EV Push
Big Oil is looking for help from Big Corn to fight President Biden’s clean energy policies and EV mandate. So far, the ethanol folks say they are not interested in lending a hand.
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A Gas Station!
There was a building on a relatively busy corner leading out of town that could never stay in business. From the time I was a kid, it kept changing and opening as something else — a restaurant, a trading post, an antique store, a restaurant several times, and probably a few other businesses over the years that I can’t even remember.
Delta Flight Dumps Fuel On School Children
A Delta flight bound for Shanghai had to make an emergency fuel dump earlier today. That fuel rained down upon Los Angeles near a school playground. Around 40 people were injured, the AJC reports.
Chart: Electric Cars Cutting Gasoline Use By Hundreds Of Millions Of Gallons A Year
As every Tesla driver knows, electric vehicles are more reliable, more convenient, cheaper to operate, safer and more fun to drive than legacy vehicles. However, the most important reason for the transition to electric driving is to reduce the use of polluting petroleum products. As EVs proliferate, consumption of gasoline is expected to fall. It’s still very early days, but that trend is already observable.
10+ Million Fires, 19,000 Deaths, And 70,000 Injuries From Internal Combustion Vehicles
According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), over 10 million highway vehicle fires caused about 19,000 deaths and over 70,000 injuries in the United States from 1980–2015. According to the NFPA, a highway vehicle is, “any vehicle designed to operate normally on highways, such as automobiles, motorcycles, buses, trucks, and trailers.” The good news about the data is that highway vehicle fires have been decreasing since 1980, which was the peak year at 456,000 fires.
EIA: US Gasoline/Petrol Use Hit All-Time High Last Year (2016)
US gasoline/petrol use hit an all-time high in 2016 — with an average of 9.327 million barrels of the stuff being burnt every day during the year — going by the newest figures from the US Energy Information Administration Monthly Energy Review.
Gutted EPA Mileage Rules Will Please Global Petro-States
On Tuesday, March 7th, the Trump administration will reverse the Obama administration’s Final Determination requiring automakers meet an average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, according to Inside EPA.
An alliance of manufacturers had urged protection for fuel inefficiency in a letter to Trump EPA administrator Scott Pruitt in February, and the industry request is one of hundreds of industry-requested rollbacks in Obama rules that are now on the chopping block, according to the New York Times.
Year-On-Year US Gasoline Use Still Rising
Gasoline deliveries in the US during September 2016 reached a new record high (for the month), with roughly 9.4 million barrels being delivered every day of the month, according to new figures from API. That represents a 1.1% year-on-year rise as compared to September 2015.
EVs Could Cut Global Gasoline Use By 2040
A tipping point has been reached in the last two years for electric cars. Almost half of all fully or partially electric vehicles sold in the past decade were sold in 2014. In addition to the standard-bearing Tesla, every car manufacturer in the world has fully or partially electric cars … [continued]
New EV Technology Aims To Increase Range: Regenerative Suspension System
At CleanTechnica, we do our best to bring news on developing technologies to our readers. These tech stories sometimes develop into mature products that advance renewables and sometimes they don’t get to market. This technology is expected to get to market, but no timeline has been established, and there is … [continued]
