Clean Fuels Blog

I am hope you heard the following statement several times during the 2008 presidential campaign. America has always risen to great challenges, and our dependence on oil is one of the greatest we ...

https://blog.cleanfuelsdc.org/2010/01/president-obamas-first-year-clean-energy-progress-report-3-es-and-an-a.html

Freedom is not free: The price may be energy security. I first learned about energy security, using oil as a diplomacy weapon, and alternative fuels from my father. My father was a prisoner of wa...

https://blog.cleanfuelsdc.org/2009/11/veterans-day-2009-veterans-persian-gulf-wars-and-energy-security.html

There are three elements to consider when you assess your environmental security. Consider yourself and the air you breathe the bull’s-eye (Code Blue), your immediate surroundings as the next o...

https://blog.cleanfuelsdc.org/2009/08/your-environmental-security-code-blue-orange-and-red.html

While a growing number of people are becoming clean energy advocates and many more would consider themselves an environmentalist, every person is concerned about the economic well being of their ...

https://blog.cleanfuelsdc.org/2009/07/economic-security-consumer-driven-ethanol-powered-1.html

Happy Anniversary? There is Some Good News... Today is the 35th anniversary of the 1973 Arab oil embargo. The United States uses 15% more oil today as net imports have increased from 35% to 57%. ...

https://blog.cleanfuelsdc.org/2008/10/energy-security.html

Your Energy and Economic Independence: What You Really Pay for Oil. The cost to the U.S. economy over the past 25 years of over reliance on OPEC oil, including the cost of price shocks, is estima...

https://blog.cleanfuelsdc.org/2008/09/economic-securi.html

The Key to Cheaper Gasoline and Renewable Fuels May be in Your Driveway - Flexible Fuel Vehicle Club of America sets out to organize and encourage drivers of ethanol fueled cars - Washington DC, ...

https://blog.cleanfuelsdc.org/2008/07/tired-of-just-c.html

Fair and Balanced: Ethanol/biofuels production has a small impact on food prices and lowers gasoline prices “The answers that I have received from the Departments of Agriculture and Energy indi...

https://blog.cleanfuelsdc.org/2008/06/the-fuel-vs-foo.html

The addition of ethanol into the U.S. gasoline pool lowers gasoline and crude oil prices by 15% -- therefore -- ethanol is actually lowering the price of food too. “…the billions of gallons o...

https://blog.cleanfuelsdc.org/2008/05/a-very-memorial.html

Too many people are "flat out wrong" about blaming ethanol for all of the increases in food prices...and then there are others like Senator Dick Lugar (R-IN) that have a deep understanding of the...

https://blog.cleanfuelsdc.org/2008/05/connecting-all.html