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REPORT: Thieves make off with $2 million worth of oil and gas in Texas

How many barrels of oil do you think you could steal in a month, y'know, if you were into that sort of thing? Ten people in West Texas were arrested recently for stealing about $2 million worth of oil and gas condensate and a local sheriff said that the thieves were able to steal 8,000 barrels of oil during a single month. That's good for a lot of trips to the grocery store. Actually, the thieves were not stealing the fuel to use themselves. Instead, the men stole the barrels and then sold them the "oil and gas to buyers who didn't know of the ... Read more →

Texas State Senator John Carona considers legalizing lane splitting Jeremy Korzeniewski

Texas State Senator John Carona has recently introduced Senate Bill 506, which would allow lane splitting in Texas. For those unaware, lane splitting is the practice of riding in between slow moving ...

Texas governor supports $5,000 incentive for plug-in vehicles Sebastian Blanco

. Here's a benefit to living with dirty air in Texas: getting $5,000 off the price of your plug-in hybrid vehicle. That's the amount being proposed in the state legislature and supported by Gov. ...

Don't mess with driving - Texans can buy by-the-mile insurance rates Sebastian Blanco

We can all save fuel and emissions by cutting back how much we drive, but until now not many insurance companies haven't seen fit to reward us with lower rates if we put fewer miles on our cars. ...

eBay Find of the Day: 1970 VW Bradley GT electric car Sebastian Blanco

In mid-October, we wrote about San Antonio, Texas high school student Luke Laborde, who converted an old Bradley GT II kit car to run on electric power. I had been meaning to write a follow-up ...

Austin Alt Car: Propane participates proudly 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

One of the more organized presences at the first Austin Alt Car expo this past weekend was from the Texas propane community. From propane-powered lawnmowers to a giant propane-powered school bus, you couldn't miss the vehicles. Three pro-propane groups - the Texas Propane Educational & Marketing ...

Homebrew electric Bradley GT II in Texas teenager's garage 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Following in the footsteps of our friend Andrew Angellotti, another teenager has taken it upon himself to convert a vehicle to fun on electric power on his own time. This time, the story revolves around 17-year-old Lucas Laborde, who took an old Bradley GT II kit car and put in about 150 hours ...

Is the solution to severe smog in Houston more time? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Move over Los Angeles, the city of Houston, Texas is now also officially on the "severe smog problem" list. The reclassification was requested by Governor Rick Perry last year and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made the change last Thursday. This move from "moderate" bypasses the level ...

Texas denied reduced ethanol requirements by EPA 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Texas Governor Rick Perry had requested that the EPA revise its Renewable Fuels Standard requirement to lessen the amount of ethanol for use in automobiles. Between September 1 of this year till August 31 of 2009, the EPA has mandated that 9 billion gallons of ethanol be blended into gasoline, a ...

Ludacris And Tommy Lee hawk greasy food to make biofuels 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The idea seems simple enough, in a time when all of the good ideas for reality TV have come and gone: take Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe and hip-hop star Ludacris and pitch them against each other in a show called Battleground Earth. The goal of the show is for each of them to go green and ...

More ethanol available for sale in Texas thanks to VeraSun Energy and Kroger 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Hey cowboy, got one of those little flex-fuel badges on your truck? If so, you can now fill 'er up with E85 at 20 Kroger gas stations in the Dallas and Houston areas. Kroger and VeraSun Energy announced today that VeraSun's mix of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline (which VeraSun calls ...

Texans' taxes buy terrific trains 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Almost a hundred new ultra-low-emission locomotives are cruising the rails in Texas (98 total, with 46 based in Dallas-Fort Worth, 43 in Houston, and nine in San Antonio) thanks mostly to a $75 million Texas Commission on Environmental Quality grant. According to this article in the Dallas Morning ...

Greenline Industries and Valco Bioenergy Start up Texas Biodiesel Plant 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

It seems like no matter what kind of fuel it is, it always comes from the Middle East or Texas. The latter is the case here, as Greenline Industries (no relation to Saturn) and Valco Bioenergy have just started up a new 3 million gallon per year biodiesel plant in Harlingen, TX. In Greenline's ...

Chevron moving into biodiesel production 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Oil giant Chevron has invested in a new 20-million gallon per year / 75.7 million litre per year soybean oil biodiesel production plant in Galveston, Texas. Plans are already underway however to increase production initially to 60 million gallons and then 110 million gallons over the next year. ...

Texas governor REALLY wants coal gassification plant 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The US Department of Energy is looking for a site for their FutureGen demonstration power-plant project, and Texas Governor Rick Perry really, really wants it to be built in Texas. Perry has committed $20 million of state funds to the project, to help make it happen. The experimental plant is ...

Alternative-fuel vehicles big hit in Texas 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Dixie Chopper (pictured) is a propone-powered lawn mower and was one of many alternative fuel vehicles shown at an event sponsored by the Southeast Texas Regional Planning Commission and the National Alternative Fuel Training Consortium. Electric vehicles like the GEM, CNG busses and E85 trucks ...

Texas researchers turn mesquite thorns into ethanol 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The thorny mesquite tree is great for cooking up Texas bar-b-que. Nothing gives brisket a better flavor. Now a group of researchers from Texas A&M wants to turn mesquite into cellulosic ethanol. The potential is enormous as Texas sports 52 million acres of mesquite. Often considered a tree that ...

Cooking biodiesel, Texas style 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Next time you're driving in Denton, Texas, and smell french fries or catfish from the big rig or school bus near by, don't cuss or give it the finger (unless it illegally cuts you off.) That vehicle is most likely powered by biodiesel made by a local company. Biodiesel Industries has contracted with ...

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