Showing posts with label Energy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Energy. Show all posts

Shale gas is helping fuel America, but oversight is needed

This quote from the Alaska Dispatch story sums up the roadblock to our improved fuel destiny:

Trucks are the frontier for what should be a bipartisan strategy on gas.
Transportation eats up about 70 percent of petroleum in the US.
But the nation has only about 1,000 filling stations for gas-powered vehicles.
English: Typical Brazilian fuel station with a...Image via Wikipedia

This is actually not a bad thing, but a good thing. We have pinpointed one of the biggest roadblocks
(excuse the play on words) to taking alternate energy from small scale to a significant contributor
of our fuel needs in America.

While there is heavy criticism of government backing specific firms in energy production, I think they
should offer incentives to fuel providers to outfit existing fill up stations with natural gas pumps. Any
gas station that offers diesel needs to be outfitted with a natural gas filling station.

If 70% of our fuel needs are trucks, I do not see why this would not be a good investment for everyone
Even people who are not in the trucking industry will see less pain at the pump since gasoline has to
compete with natural gas. For the first time in American Transportation history the concept of competition
will be introduced to fuel providers of diesel and gasoline.


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Biofuel, Oil And the Future of Trucking

Biofuel pumps (B20, left, and E85, right) at a... Will These Be The Future Fuel of American Trucking: Biofuel And The Keystone Oil Pipeline



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Yikes...the price of diesel is going up

I saw this article about the continued increase of diesel prices.

Diesel prices keep going up, up and away 
From Trucker News
by Barbara Kampbell

On-highway diesel prices have risen 52.2 cents a gallon since this time last year.

12/20/2010

WASHINGTON — "Up, Up and Away" is a 1967 song written by Jimmy Webb and recorded by The 5th Dimension. The lyrics talk about taking a trip in a beautiful balloon.
 
Something else is going up, up and away these days and there's nothing beautiful about it — diesel prices.
 Plot of United States oil production from 1900...Image via Wikipedia
The average weekly retail on-highway diesel prices jumped another 1.7 cents to $3.248 for the week ending Dec. 20, according to the Energy Information Administration of the Department of Energy.

That means a staggering increase of 52.2 cents since the same time last year.

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