According to a recent AAA Travel survey, American travelers are making vacation plans through the end of the year, but remain cautiously optimistic about those future plans. Sixty-seven percent of U.S. adults planning a vacation before the end of the year report some degree of uncertainty, they will actually be able to take their…
VP Racing Fuels & Keystone Team Up for Breast Cancer Awareness
VP Racing Fuels Inc., the world leader in racing fuel technology, is continuing its annual Breast Cancer Awareness charitable initiatives. “Breast cancer impacts just about all of us in one way or another,” said Alan Cerwick, President of VP Racing Fuels. “Every October for the past 10 years, we have worked to make more…
Love’s Travel Stops Opens New Arizona Location
Love’s Travel Stops is now serving customers in Cordes Junction, Ariz., thanks to a truck stop that opened Thursday. The Cordes Junction store, located off Interstate 17, adds 65 jobs and 57 truck parking spaces to Yavapai County. “We’re excited to open our 14th location in Arizona and add 65 jobs to Yavapai County,”…
Marathon Petroleum Seeks Permits for Renewable Fuel Project
Findlay, Ohio-based Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC) has applied for permits to convert its Martinez, Calif., refinery to a renewable diesel facility. While the Martinez conversion project is still being evaluated, seeking permits is an important step toward producing lower-carbon-intensity fuels in California for California. If the project is commissioned, the Martinez facility would be expected…
ACE Thanks USDA for Action on Grants
U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) Sec. Sonny Perdue announced yesterday that the USDA has invested $22 million out of the up to $100 million in grants available to increase American ethanol and biodiesel sales. The announcement came in conjunction with events at fuel retail stations in Minnesota and Iowa, with the American Coalition for…
Chevron, Brightmark Partner on Dairy Biomethane Fuel Projects
Chevron U.S.A. and Brightmark announced the formation of a joint venture, Brightmark RNG Holdings LLC, to own projects across the country to produce and market dairy biomethane, a renewable natural gas (RNG). Equity investments by each company in the new venture will fund construction of infrastructure and commercial operation of dairy biomethane projects in multiple…
Wawa Announces Tesla Model 3 Lease Sweepstakes
Wawa announced an official “#Wawa Run in an EV” sweepstakes which exclusively invites Virginia residents to enter to win a 3-year Tesla Model 3 lease. To kick off the sweepstakes, Wawa hosted an event during National Drive Electric week at its Vienna, Va., location to celebrate the 500,000th chainwide electric vehicle (EV) customer at a…
Growth Energy Commends House Passage of RFS Integrity Act in Clean Energy Package
Growth Energy applauded the inclusion of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Integrity Act in clean energy legislation (H.R. 4447) that recently passed the U.S. House. The RFS Integrity Act, authored by Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture Collin Peterson (D-MN), along with Reps. Dusty Johnson (SD-At Large), Dave Loebsack (IA-04), Rodney Davis (IL-13),…
Is COVID-19 a Dress Rehearsal?
Fuel and convenience retailing are at a crossroads. Concerns have been raised for years about the long-term outlook of motor fuels demand, and the COVID-19 pandemic is providing a glimpse of what that future might look like. It isn’t pretty. Many retailers’ business models were not prepared for this scenario, and it was only through…
National Fuel Price Average Steady as Demand Increases Slightly
The latest Energy Information Administration (EIA) report measures fuel demand at 8.52 million b/d, which is a slight uptick from the previous week’s 8.48 million b/d. However, the small increase is still 850,000 b/d lower than last year at this time, according to AAA. “Low demand, even as gasoline stocks decline, has helped pump prices…