Posted on September 4th, 2008 by Green Assembly
A KOREAN-owned biofuel factory is being blamed by local officials and villagers for dead fish and polluted water in a lake near the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, according to newspaper reports.
Provincial officials and local villagers in Kandal province claim liquid waste from the plant, which produces ethanol for automobile biofuel, has polluted a public lake [...]
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Posted on September 1st, 2008 by Green Assembly
TOYOTA Motor Corporation will make its advanced fuel cell hybrid vehicle available for leasing to Japan’s central and local governments and energy-related companies starting today (Monday). The first vehicle was delivered to the Environment Ministry this morning.
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Posted on August 29th, 2008 by Green Assembly
IT is not only eccentric Englishmen (see yesterday’s Green Assembly story) who believe that cooking oil is the best fuel for your car. As this video from CNN shows, Bangkok police are not only visiting local restaurants for a free meal, they are now taking away the oil afterwards and are pouring it into their vehicles. [...]
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Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Green Assembly
LONDON ~ Fuelled only by used cooking oil, eight teams have completed a gruelling car rally from London to Athens in a bid to increase awareness of biofuels, according to the BBC.
The “Grease to Greece” race, brainchild of 34-year-old Londoner Andy Pag, took the teams on a 10-day “fat-finding” mission across Europe in which [...]
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Posted on August 13th, 2008 by Green Assembly
THE switch from gasoline to compressed natural gas (CNG) may slow temporarily as a result of the blast that took place last week near Bangkok, injuring a pump attendant and damaging six cars, but it is unlikely to affect demand for natural gas in the mid- and longer-term.
The explosion took place on Friday at a Petroleum [...]
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Posted on July 18th, 2008 by Green Assembly
BANGKOK ~ In a major push to encourage more motorists to switch to ethanol-based auto fuel, Thailand’s cabinet has agreed to exempt import tariffs on E85 car parts as well as lowering excise taxes for E85-fuelled cars. E85 is a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 per cent gasoline.
The director-general of the Ministry of [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Green Assembly
What do Bangkok Taxi drivers say about fuel?
BANGKOK ~ Taxi drivers are an excellent source of information about what it costs to buy, maintain, service and run a car, so whenever I’m in a cab I always ask the driver loads of questions. Nowadays, most of my questions are about fuel and filling stations.
All the [...]
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Posted on July 10th, 2008 by Green Assembly
I saw on TV that an Indian company is building a massive processing plant to turn waste cooking oil collected from restaurants, schools and fast-food outlets into biodiesel fuel for cars and lorries.
This is no mom-and-pop venture. Production capacity at the plant is 300 tonnes per day. Nor is it a pipe-dream. The plant is already up and running, [...]
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