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<title>Inbox Robot: Car Industry Alternative Fuel News</title>
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<title>DOE, Sweden, Volvo Group Sign $48 Million Pact for &apos;Cleaner, Greener&apos; Trucks</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177223343</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 11:35 GMT</pubDate>
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...  societal issues of our time. The transportation industry has a special responsibility and this research  ...  agreement was designed to focus cooperation on biomass production, transportation and automotive research, reducing the cost of renewable energy,  ...
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<title>Put the &apos;pool&apos; into car pool </title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177221854</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 10:52 GMT</pubDate>
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...  better bet than re-purposing food farms for biodiesel production Here we are then. R10.50 a  ...  scum that eats mosquitos and s***s out biofuel  that will sort out my petrol  ...  help tide us over until the electric cars arrive to save us from indentured servitude  ...
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<title>Beat fuel hike, buy an electric car</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177221500</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 10:35 GMT</pubDate>
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...  The initial purchase cost for an electric car may be high, but savings on fuel  ...  to 30,000 units. &quot;One year ago, these cars were just on the periphery. It is  ...  alternate technology like hybrids, and electric and biofuel vehicles, and is testing electric options for  ...
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<title>New England boaters wary of ethanol in fuel</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177220398</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 10:15 GMT</pubDate>
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...  transition to gasoline with a 10 percent ethanol mix, known as E10. Now, marinas in  ...  ethanol-related problems have been reported in older cars and trucks. Auto manufacturers warn that ethanol  ...  policy that calls for increased reliance on biofuels. But the market is also doing its  ...
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<title>Who is to blame for the energy crisis?</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177219467</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 10:11 GMT</pubDate>
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...  but no one considered that these large cars were using excessive amounts of limited oil  ...  Brazilians enjoy energy independence with cane sugar ethanol. The next two decades were relatively benign.  ...  be considered carefully. The eager embrace of biofuels led to an immature acceptance of corn  ...
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<title>The challenge of running a sustainable food business</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177215103</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 09:12 GMT</pubDate>
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...  growth and sustainability of the global food industry are essential to feeding the world, providing  ...  U.S. and Europe are now refueling their cars at Lukoil gas stations. Unthinkable a few  ...  The surge in production of bio-fuels like ethanol is partly responsible for rising food prices  ...
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<title>Biofuel dumped: Town drops alternative energy source as cost increases</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177213604</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 08:52 GMT</pubDate>
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... Biofuel dumped: Town drops alternative energy source as  ...  dropped a plan to use a soy-based biodiesel fuel to power about half of its  ...  town will boost the number of hybrid cars in its fleet with a grant from  ...
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<title>PM finds spokesman in former lobbyist</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177212183</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 08:26 GMT</pubDate>
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...  - A former Reform party organizer and ethanol lobbyist has been appointed Prime Minister Stephen  ...  that promotes the use of ethanol and biodiesel in cars. He led a team that  ...  requires that all Canadian gasoline contain 5% renewable fuel by 2010. Mr. Teneycke joined the Prime  ...
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<title>Energy challenge: We&apos;ll have to fix it ourselves</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177211706</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 08:09 GMT</pubDate>
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...  mumbling inadequately about the marvels of cellulostic ethanol (ethanol from non-food sources), plug-in hybrids and  ...  pile up in the graveyards of the automobile culture; as economies do shrink; as the  ...  know one another more. Local agricultural and industrial production will get a boost as distant  ...
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<title>Pond scum to the rescue?</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177207434</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 07:25 GMT</pubDate>
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...  research project seeks to turn algae into biofuels while at the same time reducing greenhouse  ...  can use seawater or wastewater to make biodiesel, biogasoline and other biofuels. That means algae  ...  that greenhouse gas into algae-based fuels for cars and trucks &amp;mdash; fighting global warming and  ...
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<title>Beyond ethanol</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177205374</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 06:30 GMT</pubDate>
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...  prairie grass be the next generation of biofuel? July 4, 2008 | 9:49 p.m. CST  ...  on to make the next generation of ethanol  ethanol made from grasses, leftover agricultural  ...  leftover agricultural products, waste wood or other biomass  profitable, affordable and available. ...
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<title>Japanese professor: Breakthrough on climate change issue unlikely at G8 summit</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177204194</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 06:16 GMT</pubDate>
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...  people are overoptimistic about the role of technologies in tackling global warming. He said that  ...  GHG emissions,&quot; said Fujikura. &quot;The development of biofuel is one of the embodiments of the  ...  society should not be built on private cars,&quot; said the expert, who deems the exploitation  ...
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<title>New England boaters wary of ethanol mix</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177199597</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 05:24 GMT</pubDate>
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... New England boaters wary of ethanol mix BELGRADE LAKES, Maine  With the  ...  ethanol-related problems have been reported in older cars and trucks. Auto manufacturers warn that ethanol  ...  policy that calls for increased reliance on biofuels. Back in New England, John Rice has  ...
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<title>Agra Informa&apos;s 2nd annual Biogas Congress</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177196596</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 04:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  state of the biogas sector, including the progress of biogas in comparison with liquid biofuels. The growing prospects for integrating biogas with ethanol and biodiesel projects will also be examined. Csaba Sndor Tabajdi, rapporteur on biogas for the European  ...
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<title>We Need to Protect More Land, Not Less</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=177196474</link>
<pubDate>5 Jul 2008 04:31 GMT</pubDate>
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...  surging global demand and the overzealous congressional ethanol mandate that, if unchanged, could divert up  ...  gas reductions equal to taking 11 million cars off the road, based on U.S. Department  ...  We understand that some in the food industry are concerned about the skyrocketing prices of  ...
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