Energy Tomorrow Blog
Cleaner Fuels for Cleaner Air
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Mark Green
Posted November 5, 2015
To a large degree, cleaner air in the United States results from innovations and improvements in transportation fuels over the past four decades. This is important, because the freedom to travel has been ingrained in the American psyche since the days when waves of westward migration began spanning the continent.
Today, Americans are used to free and independent movement, with the average person traveling more than 13,600 miles a year, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. Meanwhile, Americans’ modern lifestyles depend on freight haulers that deliver commercial goods to the places where they live. The 4 million miles of highways and roads that make up a large portion of the U.S. transportation network serve as the country’s arterial system – and energy makes it go. Refineries supply more than 130 billion gallons of gasoline and 60 billion gallons of diesel a year to power trucks, barges, ships and trains connecting consumers with consumable goods.
The oil and natural gas industry is meeting the challenge of fueling America’s transportation needs while advancing air quality goals that benefit all Americans – by investing in cleaner, safer fuels and next-generation technologies for the future.
Cap-and-Trade Impacts on California Consumers
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Mark Green
Posted October 23, 2014
On Jan. 1, California is scheduled to include gasoline, diesel and propane in its three-year-old, first-in-the-nation program that requires companies to buy carbon permits to cover their emissions of greenhouse gases. Yet a new report warns that design flaws in the cap-and-trade program could negatively impact markets that serve consumers.
Authored by Jean-Philippe Brisson, a carbon markets expert with the Latham and Watkins law firm in New York, the report commissioned by the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) cautions that design flaws “can result – and have resulted – in catastrophic implications for environmental markets around the globe.”
More Voices in the RFS Debate
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Mark Green
Posted March 26, 2013
Bernard Weinstein – associate director of SMU’s Maguire Energy Institute:
“The biofuels mandate has done little or nothing to enhance America’s energy independence or security. Oil imports have dropped dramatically over the past five years, from 60 percent of consumption to around 35 percent; but the credit goes to the shale revolution that has greatly boosted domestic production. What’s more, the potential contribution of ethanol to the energy mix has been oversold. Processing the entire U.S. corn crop into ethanol would yield energy equal to just 12 percent of gasoline consumption. … But the most pressing reason for repealing the ethanol mandate is that refiners must blend a larger quantity every year. … Consequently, refiners are up against a “blend wall” as the mandate forces them to purchase more ethanol than they can safely put into gasoline.”
Ethanol and Storage Tank Corrosion
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Bob Greco
Posted September 14, 2012
Getting to 92 Percent
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Mark Green
Posted June 17, 2011
Taxes at the Pump
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Jane Van Ryan
Posted January 14, 2011
The Price of Fuel and Ill-Conceived Policies
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Jane Van Ryan
Posted December 30, 2010
Higher Oil Demand Signals Economic Recovery
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Jane Van Ryan
Posted December 17, 2010
Energy Tomorrow Radio: Episode - 122 A Milestone for ULSD Fuel
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Jane Van Ryan
Posted November 23, 2010
Thanksgiving Travel and Fuel Prices
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Jane Van Ryan
Posted November 22, 2010