Newport, Ark.-based C&S Fuels has purchased family-owned fuel distributor and convenience store operator Scott Petroleum Corp., of Itta Bena, in Mississippi’s Leflore County, according to Mississippi newspaper The Clarksdale Press Register. Founded in 1935 by Solon Scott Sr. as a butane supplier, the company expanded over the years under Scott Sr.’s son and current owner,…
Dover Fueling Solutions to Offer Techniche Platform
Dover Fueling Solutions (DFS) has entered a reseller agreement with cloud-based computerized maintenance provider Techniche, allowing DFS to market, sell and distribute Techniche asset maintenance management and compliance software solutions to customers worldwide. Techniche’s solutions can be used in combination with the recently launched DFS DX Connected Solutions Platform – the industry’s first open, global…
Stewart’s Shops Installing Electric Vehicle Chargers
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.-based Stewart’s Shops will introduce electric vehicle chargers (EVCs) to five of its locations, having begun installation of its first store’s units, expected to be in service by the fall. Stewart’s Shops broke ground on its first NYPA EVolve Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Station on July 1 in Schodack, N.Y. The chargers are…
Gas Prices Pumped Up for Summer
Since Memorial Day weekend, the national gas price average has increased 13 cents to $3.17. That is 98 cents more than a year ago, but 41 cents cheaper than this time in July 2014, when the national average was last above $3 per gallon, according to AAA. One of the primary reasons for more expensive…
US Grains Council’s Global Ethanol Rep to Address ACE Conference
The American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) will host Brian Healy, U.S. Grains Council’s (USGC) director of global ethanol development, at its 34th annual conference taking place Aug. 18-20, at the Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel, The Depot, to address activity underway to increase the global use and trade of U.S. ethanol and its coproducts. “Globally, countries are…
Pandemic Pause: Americans Slashed Driving Early In COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions in the spring of 2020, such as stay-at-home orders, led to a drastic drop in U.S. road travel and a sharp increase in the number of people who chose to stay home all day. While the dramatic change in traffic patterns was widely noted last year, new research from…
ACE Conference Breakouts Tackle Key Issues
The American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) 34th annual conference coming up Aug. 18-20, in Minneapolis, offers a variety of breakout sessions covering the latest in technology updates, strategic planning advice and ways to make ethanol plants more profitable. The breakout sessions will be held concurrently in three rounds on the afternoon of Thursday, Aug. 19,…
Year-Round E15 Bills in Both Houses of Congress
Representatives in both houses of Congress yesterday introduced companion bills to restore year-round sales of E15 biofuel after a July 2 ruling by the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a 2019 rule by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that lifted outdated restrictions on the summertime sale of E15, a 15% ethanol blended…
Chevron and Cummins Collaborating on Hydrogen Fuel
Chevron U.S.A. Inc., through its Chevron Products Co. division (Chevron), and Cummins Inc., a global power and hydrogen technologies leader, announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore a strategic alliance to develop commercially viable business opportunities in hydrogen and other alternative energy sources. The MOU provides the framework for Chevron and Cummins to initially…
Core-Mark Partners to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Core-Mark International, which operates more than 1,500 trucks to deliver goods to nearly 40,000 convenience store retail locations across the U.S., is taking bold steps with strategic partners Neste and Diesel Direct to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and pollution from its operations in California. “As part of Core-Mark’s Environmental and Climate Change Policy, we…