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Secure Your Propane Tanks with a High Security Locking System

Decrease Your Potential Liability and Protect Your Cashflow
Decrease Your Potential Liability and Protect Your Cashflow The Liability Risks of Poorly Secured Tanks I probably don’t have to remind you of the periodic judgments against… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/secure-your-propane-tanks-high-security-locking-system/

Getting Smarter about Propane Logistics

Using technology to reduce errors and increase profits
Using technology to reduce errors and increase profits Look up the definition of the word ‘logistics,’ and Merriam-Webster provides a simplistic “the handling of the details of… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/getting-smarter-about-propane-logistics/

National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative Opens Up Millions in Grants

A new Executive Order includes a commitment for nearly $300 million
A new Executive Order includes a commitment for nearly $300 million A new Executive Order includes a commitment for nearly $300 million toward research and the further… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/national-biotechnology-and-biomanufacturing-initiative-opens-millions-grants/

Fusion Achieves a Net-Energy Gain

A first step toward a new energy resource
A first step toward a new energy resource In December, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a monumental milestone in nuclear fusion energy research. For the first time, a… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/fusion-achieves-net-energy-gain/

Charging Headlong into Electrification

Is Your State Planning to Legislate You Out of Business
Is Your State Planning to Legislate You Out of Business States are rapidly passing “clean energy” regulations that point to converting commercial and residential properties to… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/charging-headlong-electrification/

What Drivers Want

A new survey finds out what it takes to hire truck drivers
A new survey finds out what it takes to hire truck drivers It has been a difficult 12 months for the trucking industry, with supply-chain issues, a softening freight market, and… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/what-drivers-want/

Department of Transportation Releases 2023 Random Testing Rates

The Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy & Compliance (ODAPC) has released its Random Testing Rates for 2023.
The Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy & Compliance (ODAPC) has released its Random Testing Rates for 2023. PHMSA annual random drug testing rate will be 25% in 2023. For all… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/department-transportation-releases-2023-random-testing-rates/

How Much Is Enough?

Oil & Energy looks at a perfect storm of fuel supply challenges
Oil & Energy looks at a perfect storm of fuel supply challenges “It’s going to be a challenging heating season.” That is the opinion of Michael Devine, president of the… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/how-much-enough/

Looking Back on the Year that Was

Lessons learned from a year of challenges
Lessons learned from a year of challenges Around this time last year, it felt like the world was returning to something resembling normal – or at least a new normal. Just as we… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/looking-back-year-was/

NORA Board Meeting Updates from the HEAT Show

New Leadership, New Challenges and New Opportunities
New Leadership, New Challenges and New Opportunities The NORA Board Meeting at the HEAT Show in September, helmed by NORA President Michael Devine, covered the required funding,… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/nora-board-meeting-updates-heat-show/

Breaking Down the Market Breakdown

The hows and whys of the price and supply issues facing the fuel industry
The hows and whys of the price and supply issues facing the fuel industry By now you’ve been exposed ad nauseum to the term “backwardation” and no doubt experienced the cause and… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/breaking-down-market-breakdown/

Leveraging Chevron Renewable Energy Group’s Supply Chain

Important conversations to have with your wholesale and producer partners
Important conversations to have with your wholesale and producer partners At the 2022 HEAT Show in September, Jason Lawrence, Senior Business Development Executive at Chevron… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/leveraging-chevron-renewable-energy-groups-supply-chain/

Why Your Accounting Software May Be Holding You Back

Your financial management programs need to evolve with your business
Your financial management programs need to evolve with your business The demands of the energy market are relentless and continue to expand and accelerate. If you can’t react… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/why-your-accounting-software-may-be-holding-you-back/

Does Your Gas Stink?

There’s a good reason gas smells rotten
There’s a good reason gas smells rotten Since the beginning of odorized liquified petroleum gas (propane), the most common method to tell whether or not propane is properly… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/does-your-gas-stink/

Self-Driving Cars Are Further Out Than Expected

Driver-assist technologies advance as driverless systems fall behind
Driver-assist technologies advance as driverless systems fall behind Back in 2019, Ford and VW had first said they would invest together in Argo AI developing robo-taxis,… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/self-driving-cars-are-further-out-expected/

Why Steal Data When You Can Steal Gas?

Electronic devices bypass liquid fuel storage security systems
Electronic devices bypass liquid fuel storage security systems The major threat to petroleum dispensers used to be card reader skimmers, but since the start of 2022, petroleum… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/why-steal-data-when-you-can-steal-gas/

The Best Way to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The National Oilheat Research Alliance (NORA) decided to let good science show whether heat pumps or low-carbon liquid biodiesel is a better and faster reducer of carbon emissions.
It was only five years ago when Arthur Marin, Executive Director of the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM) addressed the Oilheat Manufacturers… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/best-way-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions/

UN Climate Change Study

Climate Plans Insufficient to Limit Climate Change
Climate Plans Insufficient to Limit Climate Change A new report from UN Climate Change shows countries are bending the curve of global greenhouse gas emissions downward but… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/un-climate-change-study/

2022 Winter Fuels Outlook

Increased Energy Expenditures and Volatility Ahead
Increased Energy Expenditures and Volatility Ahead The 2022 winter season may see homeowners poised with their checkbooks, according to the U.S. Energy Information… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/2022-winter-fuels-outlook/

GAO Finds Flaws in Small Refinery Exemption Program

GAO discovered that smaller oil refineries pay more for renewable identification numbers (RINs)
GAO discovered that smaller oil refineries pay more for renewable identification numbers (RINs) The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its report reviewing the… https://oilandenergyonline.com/articles/all/gao-finds-flaws-small-refinery-exemption-program/

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