The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Obama administration played “a central role” in encouraging a private equity firm to rescue a struggling refinery in Pennsylvania. This is rather ironic since part of the reason for the refinery’s financial troubles were the Obama administration’s burdensome regulations. Continue reading
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The Obama Administration Teams with Private Equity Firm to Single Out a Individual Refinery for Help
Posted in Development, Economics, EPA, Oil and gas
Tagged boutique fuels, gasoline prices
Study Warns of $7 A Gallon Diesel in California By 2020
A study commissioned by the California Trucking Association claims the combined effect of a proposed cap-and-trade carbon emissions program and a pending 2020 low-carbon fuel standard by the California Air Resources Board could potentially drive diesel fuel prices up to $6.69 a gallon. Continue reading
‘Clash of the Titans’: California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard Battle
A legal storm in the energy industry that has been rumbling in the distance for three years is likely to come to a head this summer as petroleum refiners, ethanol producers and Washington lobbyists pursue their battle with state agencies in Sacramento. Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
Tagged boutique fuels, gasoline prices, insane greens, left coast luancy
Time to change the rules on reformulated gasoline
With cleaner regular gasoline and vehicles that emit less pollution, the benefits from using reformulated gasoline aren’t as dramatic. Continue reading
