They must at least be pragmatic and inspire the use of cleaner burning fuels.
Also, the cleaner burning fuel reduces combustion byproducts over petroleum and diesel, cutting carbon monoxide emissions by an estimated 90%-97%, and nitrogen dioxide emissions by 35%-60%.
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The report cited the previously disclosed decision of Marathon Ashland to withhold some of its cleaner burning gasoline from the market "so as not to depress prices" in the spring of 2000.
Corn-based E85 is promoted as cheaper and cleaner burning, but many motorists wanting to live green and go yellow, as the GM slogan says, have a hard time finding places to fill up.
Gasification of coal offers the potential to turn dirty burning hydrocarbons into cleaner burning liquid fuels, such as synthetic natural gas, jet fuel and gasoline, as well as hydrogen for fuel cell use, a developing field.
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This is partially being done by switching coal-fired plants to the cleaner-burning natural gas.
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California has been a leader in promoting hybrids and compact cars and cleaner-burning fuels.
These are already cheaper and cleaner than burning coal, oil and gas with all their pollutants, especially CO2.
China's energy companies have been aggressive in their dealings abroad to secure access to cleaner-burning natural gas to generate electricity.
Similarly, when Margaret Thatcher broke the British coal miners' unions in 1985, Britain was able to switch to cleaner-burning natural gas.
The wind folks say that the benefit is a huge job saver and that it improves overall economic productivity, while providing cleaner-burning electric fuel.
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The U.S. oil industry has blamed the high prices on new federal regulations that require Midwestern gasoline producers to provide cleaner-burning gasoline reformulated with a more expensive additive.
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Enterprises are being pressed to change over from coal to cleaner-burning natural gas and methane, and to be more energy-efficient by modernizing their plant equipment in the switch.
While 95% of new power plants are designed to run on cleaner-burning natural gas, the U.S. still gets 52% of its electricity from the 1.1 billion tons of coal mined here every year.
The combined effect of charging and improved vehicle technology, notably cleaner-burning diesel engines that are being used in more buses and taxis, has led to an overall reduction of 13% in nitrogen oxides and 12% in PM10 via vehicle tailpipe emissions in the charging zone.
Kinder says he's looking for other pipeline partnerships to buy, and Kinder Morgan is expanding into terminals that handle coal and other dry bulk materials, hoping to capitalize on long-term trends such as the shift by electric utilities away from Appalachian coal toward cleaner- burning western coal.
Rather than eliminate nitrogen oxide via a bulky chemical treatment system that even the EPA questioned initially, EGR would make the motor do all the work by piping exhaust gas back into the cylinders and burning it again a cleaner, cheaper, lower-maintenance solution, which would set Navistar ahead of the pack.
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