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Oil spill in Red Butte Creek threatens waters, wildlife

Source: Deseret News The pipeline fracture most likely happened at about 10 p.m. Friday on the south side of Red Butte Creek. The 10-inch-diameter line runs down Emigration Canyon to the company’s refinery near Beck Street, carrying medium crude oil from western Colorado and eastern Utah to the Salt Lake Valley. Chevron reported receiving high and [...]
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Vegetable oil carries RV down the road

His website is @: FeedMyWheels.com Josh Winston is a self-described problem solver. From his spacious office on the seventh floor of a high-rise building in Bethesda, Maryland, he fills out tax returns and keeps the books balanced for a number of his accounting clients. “Everything on the left always equals everything on the right. For math-oriented [...]
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Lab makes renewable diesel fuel from E. coli poop

Source: CNN.com Fossil fuels that keep our planet running — oil, natural gas and coal — were created from the decomposition of plants, plankton and other organic material over millions of years.A California lab has developed genetically altered bacteria that eat sugars and excrete a form of diesel oil. A California lab has developed genetically altered bacteria [...]
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National speed limit pushed as gas saver

Via: CNN.com An influential Republican senator suggested Thursday that Congress might want to consider reimposing a national speed limit to save gasoline and possibly ease fuel prices.Sen. John Warner has asked the Energy Department at what speeds vehicles would be most fuel efficient. Sen. John Warner has asked the Energy Department at what speeds vehicles would be [...]
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BRIQUETTE PRESSES FOR ALTERNATE FUEL USE

An interesting resource on making briquettes. Via: EchoTech.org (PDF) Briquettes made from materials that cost little or no money to obtain, such as old newspaper or partially decomposed plant waste, can be an alternate fuel to charcoal, firewood or coal, and may cost less. Depending on materials used to make the briquettes, they may burn cleaner than [...]
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