Green Car Reports

MAY 1, 2020

Conventional wisdom says low gas prices are poison to sales of fuel-efficient cars, but a new survey indicates that may not be the case. Despite average gas prices of less than $2.00

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The current plunge in oil prices will likely negatively affect plug-in and hybrid vehicle sales in the short term; automakers such as BMW are already warning of lower sales of plug-in vehicles given the market context. Anticipated price of oil and forecast plug-in sales. Lux on the price of oil. Source: Lux Research.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2019

Bioscience engineers at KU Leuven have created a solar panel that produces hydrogen gas from moisture in the air. If that electric power is used to split the water into hydrogen gas and oxygen, you lose a lot of energy. m² that converts 15% of the sunlight straight into hydrogen gas. It is not connected to the gas grid.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The most challenging issue facing the shale energy industry is the very low hydrocarbon recovery rates: less than 10% for oil and 20% for gas. Most of US natural gas is hidden deep within shale reservoirs. These insights help optimize strategies to boost natural gas production as well as better understand fluid mechanics.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 30, 2020

Electric cars are cleaner than gas cars almost everywhere. And will an activist strategy about oil stoke interest in Aptera? Ethanol faces more challenges at the pump. Battery-electric trains catch on in Europe. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2017

OPEC exports have come under pressure this week from technical threats to oil fields, with Saudi Arabia’s Manifa problems grabbing the headlines. At the same time, Saudi Arabia’s export volumes have been hit by high local summer demand for crude oil and products. by Cyril Widdershoven for Oilprice.com.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2017

While OPEC mulls over further steps to once again support falling oil prices, tech startups are quietly ushering in a new era in oil and gas: the era of the digital oil field. These are cheap computing with industrial-application capabilities; ubiquitous communication networks; and, of course, cloud tech.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

The Rhodium Group, an independent research provider, estimates that, after a sharp uptick in 2018, US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions fell by 2.1% An increase in natural gas generation offset some of the climate gains from this coal decline, but overall power sector emissions still decreased by almost 10%. Coal-driven decline.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 17, 2017

Natural gas vehicles were first promoted starting in about 2000 as a way to reduce reliance on imported oil and cut tailpipe emissions. Their promise appeared to grow near the height of the global financial crisis, when gas prices hovered around $4 per gallon across much of the United States.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2016

In recent years, all six Gulf monarchies—Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain—have begun to challenge the notion that citizens are entitled to cheap energy. Energy Subsidy Reform in the Persian Gulf: The End of the Big Oil Giveaway” was co-authored by Jim Krane, the Wallace S.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Jiangnan Shipyard, owned by China State Shipbuilding Corp (CSSC), has ordered an LPG (liquefied propane gas)-burning MAN B&W 6G60ME-LGIP engine in connection with the building of an 86,000-m 3 VLGC (Very Large Gas Carrier) for Tianjin Southwest Maritime (TSM), the Chinese shipping company.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

Those claiming that oil will continue to fall from here and remain low for evermore, however, are flying in the face of both history and common sense. The question we should be asking ourselves is not if oil prices will recover, but when they will. In other words, oil is a volatile market, but prices are in a long term upward trend.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

Argentina offers one of the few places on earth where oil companies are not suffering from the full force of the collapse in prices. Argentina regulates oil prices, a policy originally intended to insulate the public from the whims of the market, protecting people from triple-digit crude prices. by Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

A number of factors are pushing Saudi Arabia to raise its crude-oil production capacity, but the wide range of potential outcomes suggests that such an increase is a risky strategy for the kingdom and the global environment, according to a new article by an expert from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. m b/d thresh- old.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

The data and analytics company notes that such actions will simply mean Western countries will be more reliant on Russian oil and gas for longer. Sanctioning Russian nickel will slow the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and hinder the decarbonization of Western economies, according to GlobalData.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Both regions will benefit from rapidly expanding biofuels markets, ample land and water resources, and cheap labor, Pike suggests. Countries with significant dependence on foreign imports of oil will likely show increased interest in algae-based biofuels if oil prices continue to rise over the next decade. and Exxon Mobil Corp.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 4, 2016

Cheap gasoline is good news for the economies of most countries, but not those that rely on oil exports. The sustained fall in global prices has led oil-producing countries to search for ways to keep their revenues up. In some cases, that means cutting back on cheap gas for their own citizens.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2014

Production costs per barrel of oil equivalent. are various sources of hydrogen, such as steam methane reforming of natural gas and gasification of biomass into syngas that can make hydrogen cheaper. Source: Lux Research. Click to enlarge. Hydrogen-to-fuels. Biotech Fuels Solar'

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2019

million liters of vehicle exhaust gas catalyst in the first half of 2019—a decrease of 13% year-over-year on weak passenger vehicle production. Rare earth consumption by oil refining industry up just 2% on back of slowing vehicle sales and ongoing electrification of transportation.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 3, 2006

Almost every American who drives (and for better or worse that's most of us), must pay oil companies for the privilege. Today's NYTimes has a big story about one way oil and gas companies continue to steal from us. It is one oil company absent from the list of contributors to the successful No on 87 campaign in California.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 8, 2015

Low gas prices typically make fuel-efficient cars less attractive to consumers, and right now prices are very low indeed. car buyers won''t clamor for gas guzzlers. DON''T MISS: Gas Prices To Plunge More After Oil Price Falls To 4-Year Low? He cautioned that cheap gas prices won’t last indefinitely, and.'

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2016

Assumptions about oil’s influence on politics in the Middle East should be reversed, according to a new article from an expert at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Instead of oil buttressing autocracy, the article argues that autocracy among oil exporters buttresses oil by encouraging consumption.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

The new engine expands the company’s dual-fuel portfolio, enabling the use of more sustainable fuels such as methanol and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG). With a viable, convenient and comparatively cheap fuel already onboard, it makes sense to use a fraction of the cargo to power the vessel.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2015

With its headquarters in Vienna, Austria, one of the mandates of 12-member OPEC is to “ensure the stabilization of oil markets in order to secure an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consumers, a steady income to producers, and a fair return on capital for those investing in the petroleum industry.”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2015

The undisputed king of oil and gas is making some moves that could change the face of the global refining sector. As if being the world’s biggest exporter of oil was not enough, the desert kingdom is now looking to conquer the refining sector as it has quickly become the fourth largest refiner in the world.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The development of high energy, low-cost batteries represents the critical barrier to wide-spread deployment of EVs, which if achieved would have a profound impact on US oil security, greenhouse gas emissions, and economic growth. Innovative Materials & Processes for Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies (IMPACCT).

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 21, 2015

drivers have enjoyed unusually low gas prices, due to a variety of factors. While gas prices are at their lowest in years, oil prices have dropped by an even greater margin, meaning there should be room for gas prices to decrease even more. DON'T MISS: Gas Prices Matter To U.S. So far this year, U.S.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2019

Nigeria or Algeria cannot do the same for their oil industry. Petro-states are compensated to transition smoothly to a sustainable economy, avoiding a last-ditch attempt to flood the world with cheap oil and gas. Some national oil companies go bankrupt and others consolidate into a handful of global energy giants.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The advantages many companies experienced in the last two decades from “cheap labor” in developing nations are likely to be eroded by the growth and power of the global middle class. High oil prices continue to affect consumer behavior, and concerns about climate change and reliance on oil are likely to increasingly shape policy.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2009

CO 2 conversion to hydrocarbons over catalysts has been known for several decades but has been shown very little research and development attention, as other technologies have been much cheaper and efficient in yielding cheap oil. This catalyst converts the feed gas predominantly to methane under all conditions (ca. Scott Shaw.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2017

natural gas, shale gas, biogas and flared gas). Moreover, it is a cheap carbon source which can increase the atom utilization of CO 2 hydrogenation due to the stoichiometric ratio of C and O atoms, as well as reducing the formation of water. …

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

automotive fuel economy, the key to greatly reducing oil use and carbon emissions is gas-electric hybrid cars. Beyond this, a gas-electric hybrid with an additional storage battery and a plug-in capacity would allow us to use electricity for short distance driving, such as the daily commute or grocery shopping.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Russia is the world’s second largest producer of crude oil, behind the United States and ahead of Saudi Arabia, and its second largest exporter, behind Saudi Arabia. For natural gas, it is the world’s second largest producer , behind the United States and ahead of Iran, and its largest exporter. Certification of the €9.5

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 30, 2010

Here on the local scene in the South Bay of Los Angeles our local elected officials are doing their homework, understand the tipping point we now stand upon and are acting to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by completing their carbon inventories and creating Climate Action Plans to get us to the safe zone of 350 ppm of CO2.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 26, 2015

Gas prices have fallen dramatically in the U.S.--40 With the financial advantage of solar or wind energy curtailed by cheap oil, the logic goes, consumers will be less interested in switching from fossil fuels. 40 percent in six months--and it''s assumed by some that this will hurt the renewable-energy industry.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2014

Quinones are abundant in crude oil as well as in green plants. I think the chemistry we have right now might be the best that’s out there for stationary storage and quite possibly cheap enough to make it in the marketplace, but we have ideas that could lead to huge improvements. —Michael J. Commercialization. —Michael J.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have demonstrated a new solar process for the one-step, gas-phase conversion of CO 2 and H 2 O to C 5+ liquid hydrocarbons and O 2 by operating the photocatalytic reaction at elevated temperatures and pressures. The process uses cheap and earth-abundant catalytic materials.

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