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Texas Governors sides with Big Oil and Big Food to crush competition to gasoline

The efforts that Corn Plus is putting into lowering it's fossil fuel needs is a good example of efforts taking place across the ethanol industry to improve the efficiency of the process. And those efforts are lowering the energy costs and the amount of fossil fuels needed to produce ethanol and making a clean fuel even cleaner.

Dole Food Company, Inc. announced this week that it has converted all of its harvesting equipment in California and in Arizona over to B20 Biodiesel fuel.

The supermarket chain Safeway announced this week in Denver that it is converting its entire truck fleet to the cleaner burning fuel Biodiesel. The company is switching over its entire nationwide fleet to B20, a biodiesel blend of 20 percent biodiesel and 80 petroleum diesel. The company had already converted some of its fleet in California and Arizona.

Shoppers in San Francisco will probably now hear, "Paper or... Paper?" starting this week. According to an article in San Francisco, a ban on petroleum-based plastic bags began Tuesday.

Labor Day in the US traditionally means the end of summertime activities. And for many returning school kids the annual question will be "What did you do on your summer vacation?". Well, for one Idaho family, the answer was to take a trip across the country in a biodiesel motorhome to bring awareness to clean, renewable energy like biodiesel and ethanol.

Wondering why your family budget buys less? It's probably due to the 39% increase in the price of gasoline this past year. And with the price of oil racing to $100 per barrel, it's only getting worse.

Can fire be green? Yes, if it's a Duraflame firelog. The company has announced that it is dropping petroleum-based wax for plant waxes.

The program---SFGreasecycle--is a new effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, combat climate change and curb the growing number of clogged sewers plaguing City residents and businesses.