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Chicago Launches Green Taxi Program

On Friday, which happened to be Earth Day, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley announced the city's new Green Taxi Program. The initiative will reimburse taxicab companies that use hybrid vehicles or vehicles powered by alternative fuel. Unlike gasoline-powered cars, hybrids get better fuel economy, have cleaner emissions and do...

Opinion: We Can't Drill Our Way Out of High Gas Prices

As the price of oil soars above $100 a barrel, Americans are experiencing sticker shock at the pump and economists are concerned about our fledgling economic recovery. Solutions exist that can get us off the oil market roller coaster, but they won't be found in more domestic oil fields. No matter how vocal the drilling...

US Navy Tests Boat Powered by Algae

(Oct. 28) -- The U.S. Navy has developed what it calls a "mean, green riverine machine" -- a 49-foot camouflage gunboat capable of outracing destroyer fleets and powered in part by seaweed. Swishing around in the vessel's fuel tank is a 50-50 mix of algae-based biofuel and diesel that powers high-performance vessels in a...

'Green' Fighter Jet Taps New Kind of Power Plant

(May 20) -- The Green Hornet is screaming regularly across the skies above Maryland's Patuxent River Naval Air Station these days, cracking the sound barrier with a thunderous boom. The fighter plane is like any other F/A-18 Super Hornet in every respect but one: Half of the fuel in its engines comes from petroleum, and...

Pew Study Salutes Pentagon for Eco-Friendly Thinking

(April 20) -- An organization that buys jet fuel by the billions of gallons and gets around in gas-guzzling tanks seems an unlikely leader in the effort to go green. But according to a report released today by the Pew Project on National Security, Energy and Climate, the U.S. military is making great strides in curbing...

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04/04/12 Alternative Smart Fuel Apps Find Green Refueling... Source: EnergyVortex.com Globally, the market for alternative fuels is doing quite well.
10/07/11 Smith Dairy Products sponsors day-long seminar in... Source: The Daily Record - Wooster OH About 115 people and more than $2 million worth of alternative fuel vehicles assembled at Schmid Hall Thursday for an Alternative Fuel Vehicles Orrville conference sponsored by the Smith Dairy Products Co. The day-long seminar brought together leaders in the automotive, engine building, fuel industry, alternative fuel industry and green energy movement for an in-depth discussion about the future of alternative fuels and what the owners of commercial and industrial fleets should be thinking about both in the near and far terms.
10/05/11 PNOC abandons jatropha project Source: Manila Standard Today The Energy Department said Tuesday state-owned PNOC Alternative Fuels Corp. will drop a plan to develop jatropha as an alternative fuel source.
02/09/11 Ryan Announces Federal Alternative Fuel Credit... Source: Insurance News Net The Alternative Fuel Credit applies to alternative fuel used by a taxpayer in, or sold by a taxpayer for use in, aviation, a motor vehicle, or a motorboat.

Background on alternative fuel

Alternative fuels, known as non-conventional or advanced fuels, are any materials or substances that can be used as fuels, other than conventional fuels.

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