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		<title><![CDATA[Valero Energy Sours on Heavy Crude, Sweet on Ethanol]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valero Energy announced the permanent closing of its Delaware City refinery last month, prompted by financial losses and annual cost savings of $450 million expected from the shutdown. Though refinery operations are struggling with soured demand for petroleum products, including gasoline, its nascent ethanol business looks sweet. Is there a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:38:18 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Week in Oil & Gas: Peak Oil, a Climate-Bill Interlude and Devon's Big Sale]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Climate-change legislation took a backseat to the congressional debate over a health care bill last week. Meaning, chancesÂ of passingÂ legisation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions through a cap-and-trade system this year have disappeared.    ButÂ is it all that bad? Or unexpected? Â Senate Democratic leaders said last week wrangling...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:14:30 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sour Market: With No Buyer in Sight, Valero Closes Delaware Refinery]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valero Energy will permanently close its Delaware City refineryÂ asÂ shrinking margins and weak demand continue to punish the largest U.S. refiner. About 550 employees will lose their jobs as a result of the plant closure.    "The decision to permanently close the Delaware City refinery was a very difficult...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:05:11 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Valero CEO: Climate Bill Threatens U.S. National Security]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valero CEO Bill Klesse lays out the case against climate change legislation, arguing that it will threaten U.S. national security by killing off the domestic refining industry and giving foreign companies a competitive advantage. by Kirsten Korosec]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:12:56 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Qteros, Applied CleanTech to Harness Power of Poo to Make Ethanol]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qteros and Applied CleanTech are giving new life to municipal wastewater solids -- a cleaned up term for what most of us call poo -- by turning it into fuel for cars. Yes, poo-powered cars may be in our future.    That future may still be a ways...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Qteros teams with Israel's ACT on sludge-to-fuel process]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amherst, Mass.-based startup Qteros announced details today of a new partnership that is expected to broaden its range of potential feedstocks and reduce production costs for cellulosic ethanol. Qteros and Israeli commodities recycler Applied CleanTech ACT entered a joint development project that the companies claim is the first to demonstrate the commercial viability...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:17:50 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Valero to Shutter Some Refinery Operations, Cut Hundreds of Jobs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valero Energy has continued itsÂ let's-hunker-down-til-the-smoke-clears cost-cutting strategy with plans toÂ cut backÂ operations at a Delaware facility and extend its Aruba refinery shutdown.    The reduced operations will mean at least 250 workers -- both contract and Valero employees -- will lose their jobs at the Delaware facility. More than...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:10:39 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Waste-to-Fuels Startup Terrabon Hauls in Waste Management Investment]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terrabon has landed another investment partner -- this time, it's Waste Management-- in its pursuit of commercially viable green gasoline, a renewable fuel made from the organic waste found in your local landfill.    BNET wrote about Houston, Texas-basedÂ Terrabon back in April, when Valero Energy, the largest U.S....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:53:05 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Valero Energy Hunkers Down in Challenging Sour Crude Refining Market]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valero Energy may slow production and keep its Aruba refinery plant closed as it prepares to weatherÂ a storm of continued weakened global demand, narrowing diesel and jet fuel margins and lower sour crude discounts.    The U.S. oil refiner's second-quarter earnings fell to a loss of $254 million,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:34:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Valero Energy Corporation Q2 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions. Your first question comes from the line of Jeff Dietert with Simmons. Jeff Dietert &#8211; Simmons Good morning. Jeff Dietert with Simmons. Ashley Smith Good morning. Jeff Dietert &#8211; Simmons In your press release, you talked about considering monitoring refineries for potential run cuts and...]]></description>
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