University of Tennessee researchers believe they have part of the answer to President Bush’s State of the Union address, in which he called for investing in new methods of producing ethanol.

Perihelion Global BioFuel Refinery to Benefit From Proposed Mandatory Alternative Fuels Standard Outlined in State of … 
OPP, Ala. and SANTA ROSA BEACH, Fla., Jan. 24, 2007 — Perihelion Global today announced that in the annual State of the Union address, President George W. Bush proposed a mandatory alternative fuels standard to require 35 Billion gallons of renewable and alternative fuels in annual production by 2017 specifically including BioDiesel.

Largest Nat’l Alternative Fuels, Vehicles & Technology Expo Announced 
Las Vegas, NV-January 23, 2007 - The largest alternative fuel and vehicle Expo in the country comes to Anaheim, California, April 1-4 - the 13th annual Alternative Fuels & Vehicles Conference and Expo 2007. Formerly known as the Clean Cities Conferences, this fuel and technology neutral gathering is designed to bring one-stop information and product shopping to fleets, policy-makers, and …

Government should cut energy use as example: Bush 
President George W. Bush urged the federal government on Wednesday to take the lead in reducing energy consumption and using alternative fuels, as he pushed his State of the Union call for U.S. energy independence from foreign oil.

Phoenix Motorcars Inc. hopes to produce 20,000 electric vehicles a year some day. But for now, the Ontario vehicle manufacturer plans to sell 500 cars by the end of the year, lease a 150,000 square-foot building in Ontario by March and hire more than 100 people.

FROM OUR READERS: Electric cars to rule the roads? 
One of the main reasons that Toyota was not highlighted as a major villain in the film “Who Killed the Electric Car?” is because Toyota at the 11th hour agreed to stop calling back and crushing its remaining RAV4 EVs (”Electric car killer?” Dec. 20).

GM shows Chevy plug-in concept 
General Motors unveiled a plug-in hybrid vehicle that, the company says, offers a preview of a high-mileage vehicle platform that GM could use in future vehicles.

Detroit shocker: GM unveils plug-in hybrid - and plans to build it 
DETROIT - General Motors unveils a shocking concept car today: the Chevrolet VOLT. The VOLT moves GM toward a car driven solely by electrical components - yes, an electric car.

Back-seat driver: College wants park-and-walk RT rail garage 
Down at Cosumnes River College in south Sacramento, officials are laying plans for a light-rail station, served by a multi-level garage.

Local Tech Wire, SC - Jan 2, 2007CHARLOTTE, NC NewGen Technologies, a developer of alternative fuels, has landed $6.668 million in new financing through loans converted to stock and …

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DC Velocity, MA - Jan 2, 2007… and distribution capabilities. There is also a tremendous amount of discussion right now about alternative fuels. We think those …

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Glide Magazine, MA - Jan 1, 2007… Here they don t seem that way, people have hope for art, music, alternative fuels and the health of the planet, the list goes… …

Looming tax hikes fill stores, fuel tanks
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, HI - Jan 1, 2007… The state excise tax exemption passed in 1980 to encourage the development of alternative fuels took effect in April, when 85 percent of all gasoline sold in …

San Francisco Gate - Where tax-and-spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody’s high!” Beautiful. How we love Colbert. Elsewhere, tonight is the

Crunching The Numbers On Alternative Fuels
Popular Mechanics - Also, electric cars are cheap to “refuel.” At the average price of 10 cents per kwh, it costs around 2 cents per mile. Electric cars can be recharged at night, when generating plants are under-utilized. Vehicles that run on electricity only part of

‘Plug-in’ cars take pole position
New Zealand Herald - That would be a quantum leap from the performance of a 750-strong fleet of electric cars in London, called G-Wiz vehicles, which take about an hour to run out of battery juice at their top speed of 65km/h. The cars take eight hours to recharge.

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Guardian Unlimited - Some of us pray nightly for the swift evolution of wave-power technology, offshore wind farms, electric cars, improved water harvesting, and home insulation. But it represents expensive, landscape-wrecking madness to plant turbines where there is

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CNET News - Bush mentioned hydrogen fuel cell cars in his State of the Union address in January, calling for more research to be done to make better batteries for hybrid and electric cars and hydrogen vehicles. Even though fuel-cell vehicles are still decades