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	<description>Researching Renewable Alternatives to Petroleum</description>
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		<title>Pickens Plan for Energy Independence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, we used 21 million barrels of oil in the US.  Actually, we do this every day.  That accounts for 25% of global production.  We import 13 million barrels of oil per day of which  5 million barrels come from OPEC.  Much of that 5 million barrels comes from the Middle East. T. Boone Pickens [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notpetroleum.com/2010/07/15/pickens-plan-for-energy-independence/</link>
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		<title>Will We Help Fund the 3rd Golden Age in Arabia?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, I watched the Imax movie, Arabia, at the Fernbank Museum and enjoyed the history lesson in the Two Golden Ages of Arabia.  The first was led by the Nabataean culture and the natural resource that created their empire was frankincense and other spices.  The Roman Empire&#8217;s polytheistic worship drove the insatiable demand for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notpetroleum.com/2010/07/05/will-we-help-fund-the-3rd-golden-age-in-arabia/</link>
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		<title>Save the Gulf  Buy a Nissan Leaf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An open letter to Erich Marx, Director of Marketing and Media for Nissan Motors Dear Mr. Marx, I would like to offer a suggestion for a new marketing program to help promote the upcoming Nissan Leaf electric vehicle this winter.  For each Nissan Leaf sold, offer to donate a percentage of the purchase price to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notpetroleum.com/2010/06/08/save-the-gulf-buy-a-nissan-leaf/</link>
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		<title>Will the Gulf Oil Spill Be Enough to Change Us?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the toxic slur of oil and dispersants drift ashore across the American Gulf Coast, I wonder if this will be enough to make us change our ways?  Over the past hundred years, we&#8217;ve accomplished a lot.  We made the internal combustion engine the mainstream choice for transportation.  We&#8217;ve built roads and super-highways that link [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notpetroleum.com/2010/06/06/will-the-gulf-oil-spill-be-enough-to-change-us/</link>
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		<title>How to convert a VW TDI to Biodiesel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This title is a little misleading if you have read my post on &#8220;Using Biodiesel in your Vehicle.&#8221;  In reality, I&#8217;m going to provide information on how you can prepare your VW TDI to run on biodiesel. In general, there are two issues to overcome when running a vehicle on biodiesel: Biodiesel degrades some soft [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notpetroleum.com/2010/06/06/how-to-convert-a-vw-tdi-to-biodiesel/</link>
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		<title>Mercedes Vegetable Oil Conversion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of my &#8220;no nonsense&#8221; series on bio and alternative fuels, I covered biodiesel and straight vegetable oil (SVO) and waste vegetable oil (WVO) diesel conversions.  Since I believe in experimenting first-hand with topics I discuss, a few years ago, I worked with a local company to convert a restored 1970 Mercedes 220D to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notpetroleum.com/2010/03/13/mercedes-vegetable-oil-conversion/</link>
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		<title>Using Biodiesel in your Vehicle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Any diesel engine can run on biodiesel.  Is that a true statement?  Are there any issues to deal with or do you just dump the &#8220;biodiesel&#8221; into the engine?  What is biodiesel anyway? There are lots of questions that should be answered when you begin to peel back the onion on running your vehicle on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notpetroleum.com/2010/03/07/using-biodiesel-in-your-vehicle/</link>
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		<title>Is Light Rail the Future of Transportation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While visiting Salt Lake City this week, I rode one of UTA Trax&#8217;s electric light rail cars.  I didn&#8217;t have a place to go or somewhere I had to be at the time.  I just wanted to go for a ride because an electric streetcar is fun to ride for a clean energy enthusiast. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notpetroleum.com/2010/03/06/is-light-rail-the-future-of-transportation/</link>
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		<title>Bloom Energy and the Electric Car</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bloom Energy, after operating in secrecy for more than eight years, has now unveiled a fuel cell that could change the way we think of energy and the grid.  Bloom introduced a potentially game-changing product that could provide us with a local, on-demand power source with the potential to help us power new devices that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notpetroleum.com/2010/02/27/bloom-energy-and-the-electric-car/</link>
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		<title>Wave of Change Building in Middle East</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When thinking of ways to help kick our petroleum addiction, it&#8217;s hard not to be thinking of the Middle East and their grip on the World&#8217;s energy supply.  Sheiks pump oil, we pay for it,  sheiks get rich and powerful.  Some sheiks use the funds to bolster Taliban-ese societies that oppress their people and help [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://notpetroleum.com/2009/06/20/wae-of-change-building-through-the-middle-east/</link>
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