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NO RELIEF: California’s Insane Gas Prices Just Hit A New All-Time High

California drivers awoke this morning to absolutely no relief at the pump as the state’s average price of gas hit $4.668, up from $4.655 yesterday. This is according to AAA Fuel Gauge Report, which was updated at 3:03 AM.

 

This is a new all-time high.

There’s still been no official ruling on Gov. Jerry Brown’s petition to waive the state’s onerous fuel blend requirement.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/monday-california-gas-price-hit-new-high-2012-10#ixzz28iab4b7j

Three sheets to the wind? Air Force trials new plane fuel made of ALCOHOL

The U.S. Air Force has tested a new type of fuel – one based almost entirely on alcohol.

The A-10C Thunderbolt II flew from Eglin Air Force Base, in Florida, on a fuel blend known as Alcohol to Jet, or ATJ, as part of the airforce’s bid to move its fleet onto non-petroleum-based fuel.

While the first image this brings to mind is a pilot pouring a beer can into a tank, [...]

NASCAR Is Stepping Up Its Efforts To Be Greener

by Chad Brooks

When the 43 NASCAR drivers start their engines for Sunday’s Daytona 500, they will be doing so for the second year with American ethanol-blended fuel in their gas tanks.

The Sunoco Green E15 racing fuel, a renewable fuel blended with 15 percent American-made ethanol from American-grown corn, emits 20 percent less greenhouse gas emissions than unleaded gasoline and saved drivers from using a combined 300,000 regular gallons of gasoline during last year’s [...]