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GRAND RAPIDS -- Metro Cab driver Bryan Kenez is making fewer stops at the gas pump lately.

Kenez recently switched to a bio-diesel-fueled Volkswagen Jetta cab, a shade greener than the traditional minivan he used to drive. His taxi now motors more than 500 miles on one tank of gas -- that's about 35-40 miles a gallon -- which gives him twice the gas mileage.

The Grand Rapids-based cab firm has added seven of the cars to its fleet in the past two weeks.

Full Story: Metro Cab adds 7 bio-diesel Volkswagen cars to Grand Rapids fleet - Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com

The ethanol industry is currently petitioning the EPA for a waiver to increase ethanol blends in gasoline from 10 percent to 15 percent, in order to create a larger market–and artificial demand–for the fuel source.

Administrator Lisa Jackson said the agency’s decision awaits completion of Department of Energy (DOE) tests on ethanol—namely, how higher ethanol blends might adversely affect vehicle engines, a long-running concern of automakers and the marine leisure industry, among others—which she expects to receive by May. “We expect that once we get that additional data, and it will be publicly available, the EPA will be in a position to move toward a final decision on the waiver, late summer in the time period,” Jackson said in response to a line of questioning by ethanol booster Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska.

Co-chair of Ethanol Across America, Nelson recently launched a campaign to browbeat the EPA by offering an amendment to an EPA appropriations bill demanding higher ethanol blends. The amendment failed, but sources say that Nelson and fellow proponents of ethanol remain committed to expanding use of the fuel.  This is despite frequent criticisms of ethanol from across the philosophical spectrum: Fiscal conservatives tend to regard ethanol as a boondoggle tying together the worst practices of pork-barreling and interference with the free market; progressives and some social conservatives have criticized ethanol as environmentally unfriendly, with some also pointing to the impact that using food to produce fuel has on global food prices, and thus hunger and malnutrition in poorer countries.

Full Story: EPA Set to Give Ethanol a Big Boost? - Big Government (blog)

Even though it's down on displacement compared to the outgoing 6.2-liter engine , the M 157 generates more power (544 horsepower in 'standard' mode, 571 with the optional performance package) and more torque (586 pound-feet or 660 lb-ft. with the optional performance pack). And despite the change in engine size, the big sedan's S63 moniker will remain.

MB chairman of the board Volker Mornhinweg has also confirmed to Autoblog that the U.S. market will indeed receive start-stop technology despite the fact that its efficiency gains aren't really recognized by the EPA's fuel economy testing methodology. Even so, the user-defeatable fuel-saving measure ought to pay dividends in city traffic, which is important because cities like Los Angeles and New York are prominent AMG markets.

Despite offering an embarrassment of performance, the S63 will also cut fuel consumption by an astonishing 25 percent, thanks in part to clever programming of its SpeedShift gearbox and a driver-selectable 'Controlled Efficiency' program, an eco-mode that, among other things, instructs the transmission to always start in second gear, shift up as quickly as possible, and remain in higher gears whenever possible. In addition, the Intelligent Generator Management System employed on the E63 is also used to funnel kinetic energy back into the battery, and there is a new generation of cylinder deactivation technology at work as well. All-in, the still-massive motor will turn in an impressive 23.5 miles-per U.S. gallon on the EU cycle and Morninweg pledges that the car will skirt U.S. gas guzzler taxes.

Full Story: Geneva:Geneva: 2011 Mercedes-Benz S63 gets smaller but more powerful 5.5-liter ... - Autoblog (blog)

The ticketed-passenger waiting area at the new terminal under construction at General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport in Bartonville.

Meagan Dunniway does a reading exercise with fifth-graders Alecia Arreguin, 10, and Tyler Gregory, 11, in the hallway at Peoria Heights Grade School on Thursday afternoon. Dunniway is one of six temporary reading tutors hired by the school through a grant funded with stimulus money.

Educational grants and transportation projects took the majority of the funding, with smaller percentages awarded to work force development programs, energy and environmental projects and health and human services organizations. The cash injection created or saved about 159 jobs in the Tri-County Area.

Full Story: Where did the Tri-County Area's stimulus money go? - Peoria Journal Star