Archive for July, 2009

State seeks natural gas fuel centers - Pueblo Chieftain

State seeks natural gas fuel centers - Pueblo ChieftainDENVER (AP) - Gov. Bill Ritter and his energy office are teaming up with Clean Energy, a gas supplier, to apply for a $10 million federal grant to expand use of compressed natural gas for transportation fuel in Colorado. The grant would help finance
China [...]

Cheaper CNG becomes the fuel of choice - Times of India

Cheaper CNG becomes the fuel of choice - Times of IndiaKANPUR: What environmental concerns could not achieve, the recent fuel price hike has. The number of cars going green have shot up to an all time high. Car owners, who have felt the pinch of the fuel price hike the most, have started switching over [...]

Electric cars left out in Utah’s clean-air tax credits - Salt Lake Tribune

Electric cars left out in Utah’s clean-air tax credits - Salt Lake TribuneVictor Cooper’s electric vehicle, which he uses for his business and errands around his hometown of Kanab, is ineligible for the state’s clean-air tax credit. His local lawmaker says it’s a loophole that needs to be plugged. Utahns can grab a clean [...]

Two towns to buy natural gas at planned Kings Park pump - Newsday

Two towns to buy natural gas at planned Kings Park pump - NewsdaySmithtown and Huntington have entered a new partnership to buy compressed natural gas at a future Kings Park pumping station that, officials said, allows both towns to expand their CNG vehicle fleets and maintain more stable fuel prices over the next [...]

Two towns to buy natural gas at planned Kings Park pump - Newsday

Two towns to buy natural gas at planned Kings Park pump - NewsdaySmithtown and Huntington have entered a new partnership to buy compressed natural gas at a future Kings Park pumping station that, officials said, allows both towns to expand their CNG vehicle fleets and maintain more stable fuel prices over the next [...]

T. Boone Pickens’ campaign fueling dialogue on clear-energy efforts - Dallas Morning News

T. Boone Pickens’ campaign fueling dialogue on clear-energy efforts - Dallas Morning NewsIn July of last year, Dallas billionaire T. Boone Pickens began a $60 million advertising campaign and speaking tour designed to persuade Americans to stop using foreign oil. The oilman-turned-environmentalist proposed a seemingly simple plan
An industrial visionary, Victor Smorgon dies [...]

Sohpon won’t drop NGV bus project - Bangkok Post

Sohpon won’t drop NGV bus project - Bangkok PostTransport Minister Sohpon Zarum insisted on Thursday morning that he would never drop his ministry’s plan to lease 4,000 NGV buses for Bangkok and would continue to press ahead with it. Mr Sohpon was responding to a report that the leader of the
T. Boone [...]

First auto LPG filling station inaugurated - Times of India

First auto LPG filling station inaugurated - Times of IndiaALLAHABAD: The first auto LPG refilling station was inaugurated in the city at a retail outlet at Jawahar Lal Nehru crossing by state general manager of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) Gyaneshwar Tewari on Tuesday. The cost per litre of auto LPG would

Natural gas the clean, cheap option for cars - Wyoming Tribune-Eagle

Natural gas the clean, cheap option for cars - Wyoming Tribune-EagleCHEYENNE — Imagine a vehicle that emits 30 percent less emissions and costs a third less at the pump. The technology is available. Natural gas already heats about 60 million U.S. homes. More than 150,000 natural-gas-powered vehicles already traverse