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Louisiana Light • 4 days | 69.51 | -1.74 | -2.44% | ||
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Bonny Light • 20 hours | 72.65 | -0.67 | -0.91% | ||
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Opec Basket • 4 days | 74.11 | +0.36 | +0.49% | ||
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Mars US • 4 hours | 67.29 | +0.05 | +0.07% | ||
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Gasoline • 18 mins | 2.520 | -0.016 | -0.62% |
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Bonny Light • 20 hours | 72.65 | -0.67 | -0.91% | ||
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Girassol • 20 hours | 72.86 | -0.79 | -1.07% | ||
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Opec Basket • 4 days | 74.11 | +0.36 | +0.49% |
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Peace Sour • 19 hours | 61.18 | -1.42 | -2.27% | ||
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Light Sour Blend • 19 hours | 62.48 | -1.42 | -2.22% | ||
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Syncrude Sweet Premium • 19 hours | 71.43 | -1.42 | -1.95% | ||
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Central Alberta • 19 hours | 60.78 | -1.42 | -2.28% |
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Eagle Ford • 4 days | 63.22 | -1.61 | -2.48% | ||
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Oklahoma Sweet • 4 days | 63.25 | -1.50 | -2.32% | ||
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Kansas Common • 20 days | 64.52 | +0.64 | +1.00% | ||
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Buena Vista • 4 days | 73.05 | -1.61 | -2.16% |
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Alternative Energy / Biofuels
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U.S. Military Gets Serious About Biofuels
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The Future of Aviation Biofuels
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Why Algal Biofuels May Never Hold the Key to the Future
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How the U.S. Can Produce 36 Billion Gallons of Biofuels Annually
Jim Lane at Biofuelsdigest.com has written an article worthy of serious consideration to answer the U.S. challenge in law to produce 36 billion gallons of biofuel annually. Ethanol from…
New Technique Discovered to Help Harvest Algae
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The Dirty Truth: Some Biofuels are More Polluting than Fossil Fuels
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Algal Biofuels - Time for Grand Scale Production?
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Has Algae.Tec Cracked Algae's Biofuel Pricing Ability to Compete with a Barrel of Oil?
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Indian Seaweed - Biofuel's Aquatic Future?
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Move Aside Corn Ethanol - Sweet Sorghum Being Engineered as a New Biofuel
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Are Biofuels the Best Use of Our Limited Land Resources?
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U.S. Biofuel Camelina Production Set to Soar
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Biofuel Advances: Obtaining More Energy From Switchgrass
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Biofuel Breakthrough: Could the Energy Landscape be About to Change?
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Biofuels: Not the Savior we Hoped For
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