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...of releasing crude oil from the government’s strategic petroleum reserve, declaring that “all tools are on the table” as the Biden administration confronts a politically perilous surge in the price of gasoline...
...The move comes as Biden and his officials continue to put pressure on US drillers to increase output even as crude and petrol prices continue to retreat, with gasoline now selling across the country at its...
...“It is incumbent on energy companies to not continue to just take record profit for each gallon of gasoline when they could help to . . . bring down [prices],” the official added....
...Ethanol, typically made from corn, is a renewable source of fuel that can be blended with gasoline, reducing the volume of oil required....
...On Tuesday, the White House said it could scrap federal gasoline taxes in a bid to bring immediate relief to drivers....
...The highest US gasoline prices since 2014 have sunk the approval rating for President Joe Biden to an all-time low and cast a shadow over the country’s economic recovery....
...Republicans have pounced, blaming Biden’s climate policies for gasoline prices that are about 60 per cent higher than a year ago....
...He then proceeds to carry the clothes outside and douse them in gasoline, using a blowtorch to set them ablaze and urging his 1.2m subscribers to do the same....
...“Gasoline and product will likely be bid, but crude oil prices could slide.”...
...This is evident in a scathing critique in USA Today, written by Tariq Fancy, a former head of sustainable investing at BlackRock....
...“Refiners want to know, should I produce gasoline? Producers want to know, should I shut down my well?” he said....
...refiners have argued that higher blending rates has been impossible in part because the EPA had limited sales of E15 fuel between June 1 and September 15, out of concern the fuel would evaporate and form smog...
...Strict new standards to reduce smog were supposed to come into effect next July. But pulling the reform forward to this month has pulled the rug on carmakers....
...(USA Today) Cheshire Pension Fund questions members on investments and ESG (Pensions Expert) 90 US cities and states suspend water shutoffs to tackle coronavirus pandemic (The Guardian) Meet Vogue’s original...
...Ethanol blends above 10 per cent have been held back by EPA rules that limit sales of E15 between June 1 and September 15 because of concerns that summer heat would cause the fuel to evaporate and worsen smog...
...(FT) USA women’s team secures place in last 16 The USA women’s team cruised through to the knockout stage of the Women’s World Cup after defeating Chile 3-0 in front of a sellout crowd in Paris....
...Patricia Iglecias, president of the state environmental agency, told me that fumes from gasoline are “the biggest problem”....
...Ethanol blends above 10 per cent have been constrained by EPA rules that limit sales of E15 between June 1 and September 15, because of concerns about the fuel evaporating in the summer heat to create smog...
...California should not be allowed to set its own limits on carbon dioxide emissions because “attempting to solve climate change . . . is fundamentally different from [the law’s] original purpose of addressing smog-related...
...Its researchers found that, while gasoline cars emitted more carbon dioxide than battery-powered cars, the latter emitted more than twice as many PM2.5 particles, the toxic smog that plagues Chinese cities...
...The USA and China now see a chance to take over . . . I see our chances of keeping the lead position at 50:50.”...
...You don’t do this with gasoline.”...
...As gasoline prices roared higher in the wake of the storm the Department of Energy was able to loan a small number of SPR crude barrels to oil refiners cut off from their usual supplies by port closures...
...“We are competing with gasoline cars,” he said. “If we can’t win against gasoline cars, there’s no place for us in the market.” On that measure, there remains some way to go....
...(CNBC) No celebrating Children’s Day in India Toxic smog has put a dampener on the commemoration....
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