ALTERNATIVE FUELS * USA - UPS Begins Using Renewable Biodiesel at Major U.S. Hub

The United Parcel Service began using biodiesel blends at its hub in Louisville, Ky., this month

Jefferson City.MO.USA -PRNewswire/USNewswire -May 23, 2011:    ...   UPS recently installed a biodiesel fuel tank and fueling station at its Worldport facility. It will allow fueling operators to blend specified percentages of biodiesel on the fly, starting with 5 percent biodiesel, B5, and working up to 20 percent biodiesel, B20. The 30,000-gallon biodiesel tank and station at Worldport fuels nearly 200 vehicles and diesel equipment, most of which help load packages on and off the planes...  Biodiesel blends of up to 20 percent can be used in any diesel engine without modifications, says the National Biodiesel Board, and can reduce greenhouse gas production by up to 80 percent...  Worldport is the single most important point in all of UPS's global operation. The facility processes 416,000 packages per hours and is the size of 80 football fields. Worldport turns around 100 aircraft per day... (Picture, Aerial view from wikimedia.org/wikipedia: UPS' Worldport)

ALTERNATIVE FUELS * USA - Big Dogs of the Oil Patch Tangle Over Gas Subsidies

New York,NY,USA -The Wall Street Journal/Hartford Gas Prices -25 May 2011: -- Investor T. Boone Pickens has a vision of American highways in which trucks are powered by natural gas—and nudged along by government subsidies. Charles Koch, one of the richest men in the country, is gunning hard to block taxpayer money from boosting his fellow billionaire's dream...  The oil-patch titans are brawling over a congressional bill that would provide tax breaks to trucking companies for 18-wheelers that run on natural gas instead of oil...  Mr. Pickens, a limelight-loving, veteran energy investor who owns part of a company that installs natural-gas fueling stations, has spent tens of millions of dollars promoting an energy plan he says would help shift the U.S. off imported oil...   Mr. Koch, an intensely private but prominent donor to conservative causes, opposes the bill... (Image from ecopolitology.org: Waste management CNG truck)