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Opinion: Diesel and the truth about MPG ratings
America is a great country, but amazingly, breathtakingly and mindbogglingly ignorant about cars and fuel efficiency. If you look in the center of the photo above you’ll see a readout of 65 mpg. That’s the mileage a friend of ours, Peter Causer, of Volvo Construction Equipment, got in his Ford Focus 1.8 liter turbodiesel while […]
January 28, 2013
Equipment
Maine considers ban on E15 gasoline
The state of Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection is at work on a bill that would ban gasoline blends with more than 10 percent ethanol, according to the Bangor Daily News. The bill has not yet be written and would only be pursued if two other New England states go along with the notion. While […]
January 17, 2013
Construction Equipment
The effects of E15 on small gas engines (GIE+Expo)
We're live this week from GIE+Expo in Louisville, Kentucky and had a chance to hear comments from Outdoor Power Equipment Institute President Kris Kiser on the negative effects of E15 gasoline (gas with 15 percent ethanol) in small gas engines.
October 31, 2012
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Alternative fuels (first of a 3-part series) Natural gas and propane autogas These are truly “green” fuels, all-American, cost competitive and loaded with horsepower. For medium- and heavy-duty truck applications, though, these fuels can’t be beat. By Tom Jackson It used to be simple. There was diesel, and there was gasoline. Now there’s gasoline, E10 […]
August 3, 2011
Roadbuilding
Diesel, gas continue to rise
The Department of Energy reported Monday that diesel prices rose 4.4 cents to a $3.976 per gallon national average. Gasoline also increased, rising to $3.684 cents per gallon, an 8.8-cent increase over the previous week. Compared with figures from the same week last year, diesel has risen more than 96 cents and gas has registered […]
April 5, 2011
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Diesel, gas continue to rise
The Department of Energy reported Monday that diesel prices rose 4.4 cents to a $3.976 per gallon national average. Gasoline also increased, rising to $3.684 cents per gallon, an 8.8-cent increase over the previous week. Compared with figures from the same week last year, diesel has risen more than 96 cents and gas has registered […]
April 5, 2011
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Diesel has biggest price jump in months
Diesel jumped 6.3 cents to $2.991 a gallon, its biggest jump in four months, the Department of Energy said in a weekly price survey. Diesel will average just under $3 a gallon this year but will climb to more than that level in 2011, according to the DOE. Trucking’s main fuel will average $2.97 this […]
August 11, 2010
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Oil prices climb to $77
Oil climbed and hovered around $77 a barrel as the U.S. economy’s demand for crude oil dropped after weak U.S. consumer confidence. New York’s light sweet crude for delivery in September increased 29 cents to $77.28 a barrel, and Brent North Sea crude for September climbed 28 cents to $76.34 a barrel in Thursday in […]
August 4, 2010
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