Thursday, April 06, 2006

[Biodiesel] Biodiesel Basics: How to Run Your Car on Used Salad Oil For financial, political and environmental reasons—including the fact that we may soon reach the peak of oil production, after which fossil fuels will get increasingly expensive—Americans are trying out biodiesel, both in their vehicles and (mainly in the Northeast) for home heating. [Source: E: The Environmental Magazine] 3:25:27 PM Google It!    [Renewable energy] Agriculture Interests Push Ambitious Renewable-Energy Goal Farm and forestry groups are throwing their support behind the new "25 x '25" campaign, which advocates that 25% of energy in the U.S. come from "America's working lands" by 2025. [Source: Grist Magazine via ClimateBiz.com, 3/24/06] 3:15:45 PM Google It!    [Biodiesel] Soy-based Biodiesel Praised in Ohio On tour of a biodiesel processing plant that was said to have produced the most biodiesel in the U.S. in 2005, Ohio Governor Bob Taft and Ohio Department of Agriculture Director Fred Dailey praised the partnership between Cincinnati-based Peter Cremer North America, DaimlerChrysler, and Ohio farmers for enabling new Jeep Liberty vehicles with diesel engines produced in Toledo to be fueled by soy-based biodiesel when they are driven off the lot. [Source: Renewable Energy Access, 4/4/06] 3:13:58 PM Google It!    [Biofuels] Hawaiian Utility Looks Inward for Energy Hawaii's major electric utility, feeling the sting from a nearly 100 percent reliance on imported and increasingly expensive energy, is looking inward to the Islands' considerable biomass and biofuels potential to reinforce its energy supply. Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) this week asked the ethanol industry to supply its renewable fuel for use in HECO's new Campbell Industrial Park Generating Station. [Source: Renewable Energy Access, 3/24/06] 2:50:19 PM Google It!    [Ethanol] City's flex-fuel cars finally going green In 1997, St. Paul started buying a fleet of cars that could run on fuel made with 85 percent ethanol, a move aimed at reducing greenhouse gases, but the city hasn't been able to get that type of fuel until now. [Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press, 3/27/06] 2:29:18 PM Google It!

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