Biodiesel Resource

June 24, 2005 -- The Eighth Annual Congressional Expo featured an array of alternative energy sources, many of them vying for a piece of the $11 billion in clean alternatives and conservation subsidies included in the Senate Energy bill (another $12 billion would go to the usual suspects--oil, coal, and gas, but also including $6 billion for the nuclear power industry).

Proponents of drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge insist that only 2,000 acres within the 1.5-million-acre coastal plain would be disturbed. This is most likely false.

The U.S. Geological Survey studies conclude that oil in the refuge is spread across the coastal plain in more than 30 small deposits, which would require vast networks of roads and pipelines that would fragment the habitat, disturbing and displacing wildlife.

March 16, 2005 -- The U.S. Senate endorsed oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) today. The bill narrowly passed by a 51 to 49 vote. Read More

Estimates on the amount of oil in Alaska range from 5-12 billion barrels. It is anticipated that about 1 million barrels could be withdrawn per day. The U.S. consumes more than a million barrels of oil per day.

1929 - FIRST CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHT OF PACKARD DIESEL POWERED STINSON "DETROITER", X7654 

Packard diesel-powered Stinson "Detroiter" in 1929

DIESEL MOTOR FLIES PLANE 650 MILES

By Francis D. Walton
A Staff Correspondent

Forbes - Associated Press - March 2, 2005

Crude oil prices remained above $51 a barrel Wednesday ahead of inventory data from the United States and after an OPEC official said the group might decide against a cut in production at its next meeting.

Light, sweet crude for April delivery fell 20 cents to $51.48 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange by afternoon in Europe. Heating oil prices rose slightly to $1.4660 a gallon.

Brent crude futures fell 16 cents to $49.95 on the International Petroleum Exchange.

SAN FRANCISCO, September 28, 2006 - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a landmark law on Wednesday aimed at reducing the state's greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020. The new law establishes the first U.S. cap on greenhouse gas emissions and stands in stark contrast to the federal government's failure to impose mandatory reductions of emissions linked to global warming.

Schwarzenegger said the law fulfills his pledge to make California "number one in the fight against global warming."