AUTOMOBILES :Chevrolet Sales Thailand will enter the alternative fuel car market this year, by offering customers the option of equipping new Chevrolet Optra 1.6-litre sedan or estate models with compressed natural gas (CNG) equipment, or upgrading their current Optras to use the fuel. Continue…

GM offering CNG cars AUTOMOBILES :Chevrolet Sales Thailand will enter the alternative fuel car market this year, by offering customers the option of equipping new Chevrolet Optra 1.6-litre sedan or estate models with compressed natural gas (CNG) equipment, or upgrading their current Optras to use the fuel. Continue…

BOSTON - As lawmakers raced to the end of their formal session July 31, more than a few items got left on the cutting room floor. That’s not so unusual, given the thousands of bills filed each year. Continue…

The stick and carrot are timeless means of encouraging people to change their habits and both are being deployed to convince drivers to go green. British Members of Parliament have been proposing a new stick measure, suggesting that the top rate of vehicle tax should rise for the highest emission vehicles, writes David Robertson. Continue…

Wisconsin Ag Connection - In the end, the research should benefit not just producers, but also consumers and the alternative fuels industry,” he said. Several projects are underway. Others involved with Moore in the research are Matt Liebman, agronomy professor, and Tell me more

Guardsman Online - Touted by some as the way of the future, alternative fuels could alleviate the need for the enormous amount of fossil fuels that Americans currently soak up. Congress currently supports ethanol, which is made from corn. Ethanol is a clean-burning fuel Tell me more

News Busters - Storm jumped on the alternative fuels bandwagon and noting the need to get off of fossil fuels if for no other reason than to combat “the rising” cost of gas, which according to the August 22 Early Show, has actually fallen 11 cents a gallon in the Tell me more

Beurs.nl - LaSorda asked, referring to the introduction of alternative fuels and other tactics that could lower foreign-oil dependence. ‘Right now I don’t know.’ The auto industry’s problems, executives say, stretch far past oil prices. Double-digit health-care Tell me more

Kansas City Star - Cargill Inc. and the Missouri Soybean Association have agreed to build a biodiesel plant in Kansas City as the demand for alternative fuels grows. The announcement came the same day the American Coalition for Ethanol met in Kansas City, with Tell me more

Bloomberg - Aug 23, 2006… Now, faced with flattening oil and metals prices, Su is buying stocks of bioengineered products and alternative fuels companies — shares that so far have …

Electric Vehicle Pros & Cons
Edmunds.com/Inside Line, CA - 7 hours ago… While promoting alternative fuels and systems, we need to keep in mind what in the “real” world will sell, and keep bringing people back for repeat business …

Chrysler CEO: US Government Fails To Address Key Issues
Easy Bourse (Communiqu s de presse), France - Aug 24, 2006… “Are we (as a nation) really serious about it?” LaSorda asked, referring to the introduction of alternative fuels and other tactics that could lower foreign …

Fuel change must come
Anderson Herald Bulletin, IN - Aug 22, 2006Alternative fuels are becoming all the rage as America attempts to cure its addiction to oil, as President Bush said in his State of the Union address. …

Open Briefing Orbital Corporation Limited - CEO & CFO on FY06 …
Yahoo! News (press release) - 17 hours ago… Over recent years we've developed new products that can handle alternative fuels and gaseous fuels as well as expertise that can assist in the application and …

BLOOMINGTON — Todays gas pain leads to tomorrows pleasure. Today, motorists may spend too much for gas, for example.

Allen makes stop in Springfield 
The volume of U.S. Sen. George Allen’s speech Tuesday in Springfield ranged from a boisterous opening, “HELLO PATRIOTS,” to an almost whispered apology for a comment he made in southwestern Virginia earlier this month.

No windfalls here 
Fuel giant Sasol has rolled out the big guns in its fight to resist the imposition of windfall taxes, presenting a 256-page report to the team tasked with recommending whether such taxes should be applied to liquid fuels and, particularly, synthetic fuels in South Africa.

Alexakis, House Democratic ‘04 Primary Winner, Bidding in 3-Way Race for Party’s Nominee in 2006 November Elections  
Kostas Alexakis, 2004 Democratic candidate for Congress from the First District of Maryland, outlines his tough campaign platform for his 2006 bid in a three-way Democratic primary race. The campaign strategy for Friends of Alexakis For Congress Committee advances his leadership position and compelling solutions for the following current issues: environmental pollution, education, healthcare,

Allied Energy Group, Inc.: Corporate Profile 
Allied Energy Group, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: AGGI) is an independent energy development firm primarily engaged in thesyndication, exploration, development, and production of oil and naturalgas in the continental United States.

PNOC reports rise in income 
The Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC) reported a rise in consolidated income during the first half of the year owing to improved revenues and the implementation of cost-reduction measures.