Charles Newbery
Reporter 
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July 2, 2018 05:40 UTC 
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When Gas Natural Fenosa and Metrogas, two leading natural gas distributors in Argentina, launched a campaign in May to get motorists to convert their cars to run on gas, it didn’t surprise the energy industry. The “Switch to Gas” campaign highlights the ease of converting cars to compressed gas, or CNG, and filling up at a stations nationwide, plus the lower carbon emissions. The clincher is that CNG is 50% cheaper than gasoline, according to the distributors. |
Ross McCracken
Managing editor, Energy Economist 
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May 16, 2017 05:01 UTC
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“Daddy, when I grow up, should I become a petroleum engineer?” As noted frequently in Platts monthly newsletter Energy Economist, the decarbonization of transport seems for many limited to the light passenger vehicle market. The general assumption is that battery density is insufficient for heavy-duty vehicles. The all-electric aeroplane, for example, has as much chance of getting off the ground as an ostrich. |
Rodney White
Reporter
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June 10, 2014 13:19 UTC
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Investing in vehicles powered by CNG or LNG is a long-term commitment and takes guts. Patience is a virtue seldom found among many people these days, especially investors. Long-term investments, regardless of what serious professionals say, seem to be for old fuddy-duddies who are stuck somewhere in the 20th century. |
News Desk
Various reporters contributed
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March 6, 2013 18:09 UTC
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Canadian natural resources minister Joe Oliver had some “relevant science and facts” about the Alberta oil sands for IHS CERAWeek attendees Wednesday. “Unlike some oil-producing regions, Canada is a strong and stable democracy, with a free market that is respected, where the rule of law prevails and where there is a long-demonstrated commitment to environmental responsibility,” Oliver said. “The oil sands may be the most rigorously regulated and monitored industrial sector in the world. Regulations and monitoring are driving innovation. Innovation that has achieved a drop of 26% in greenhouse gas emissions per barrel between 1990 and 2010.” “Facts and science speak for themselves,” he said, charging opponents of the proposed Keystone XL, which would bring oil sands crude to the US, of using “misrepresentation and hyperbole” in the public debate. |
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