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The fuel cell industry asked Congress and the incoming Obama Administration today to set aside $1.2 billion in the planned stimulus package for fuel cells and their fuels.

Today, City CarShare (CCS) released its top 10 reasons why people should join the Bay Area’s only nonprofit car sharing organization as their first act to ring in the New Year.

What is the future of the automobile industry? Within a single century, personal transportation has progressed from horse-and-buggies to nearly one billion private automobiles. While our lives are unimaginable without cars, the vast majority of vehicles depend on oil, a problematic and limited natural resource that contributes to global warming. ...

Fuel prices have fallen steadily since last month as crude oil prices have decreased. Demand for gasoline is nearly three percent lower than a year ago, which also contributes to the lower fuel prices. AAA Chicago’s most recent Fuel Gauge Report estimates that in Illinois, regular unleaded gasoline has decreased ...

The oil and natural gas industry's wish list for the new Congress, Obama administration and the New Year is very short -- "do no harm," industry representatives in Washington, DC told Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI). They indicated that their "wants and expectations" will be more moderate due the changing of ...

Stratos Renewables, an emerging agro-energy company developing a South American sugarcane ethanol operation, today announced that the company has secured enough land in the northern coastal region of Peru required for the production of up to 90 million gallons per year of sugarcane-based ethanol. Stratos intends to use this land ...

GE Capital Solutions Fleet Services has processed more than $5.7 million in rebates for its customers that lease hybrid or alternative fuel motor vehicles since implementing a rebate program. The rebate program is designed for customers that make significant investments in new technology to improve their environmental performance.

Judy Chu, Ph.D., Chair of the California State Board of Equalization (BOE), today released figures on gasoline consumption in California showing a decline of 8.3 percent in August 2008 from August 2007. Californians consumed 1.260 billion gallons of gasoline in August 2008, which is 113.8 million gallons below that of ...

Mobile Posse announced that it has teamed up with GasPriceWatch Group, Inc. to deliver real-time gas quotes to the idle screen of consumer mobile phones. GasPriceWatch offers the most comprehensive database of gas stations and gas prices in North America, providing information for more than 130,000 gas retail outlets. Under ...

GreenChek Technology, a provider of hydrogen based technology for mobile transportation and stationary power generation applications, announced today that they continue to achieve successful results through ongoing in-house testing of their Emission Reduction Device Technology.