Alabama
Experts say E-15 gas likely won’t be in Alabama, but could still help lower prices this summer
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) – Specialists inform WBRC that President Biden’s current adjustments to permit E-15 gasoline within the hotter months probably gained’t have the gas coming to Alabama.
Clay Ingram with Alabama AAA mentioned solely two p.c of gasoline stations within the nation have E-15 gasoline obtainable and they’re primarily within the Midwest. However, he mentioned Alabama may nonetheless see a optimistic impression.
E-15 is simply one other variation of the gasoline you purchase on a regular basis, however it’s obtained as much as 5 p.c extra ethanol blended in. It’s offered at stations proper now, however with President Biden’s current adjustments, it would now be allowed between June and mid September. Ingram mentioned that may assist decrease gasoline prices for Midwest drivers by 5 to 10 cents.
Ingram mentioned the decrease price can have many drivers filling up with E-15. He mentioned about 88 p.c of automobiles can burn it safely. Ingram mentioned this might trigger a decrease demand for regular gasoline, which may imply decrease costs.
“It may lower our total demand for normal gasoline, which might then permit our costs to drop down a bit of additional,” Ingram mentioned. “Even when it is just saving us 5 or 10 cents a gallon proper now, the truth that it’s getting used may soften our demand and assist push costs a bit of decrease.”
Whereas Ingram mentioned it’s possible you’ll not discover E-15 at a Alabama pump, in case you are touring to Texas or the Midwest, you would probably see it. He mentioned in case your automobile has a decrease mannequin yr than 2000, don’t refill with it, it may trigger injury to your automobile.
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Ivey awards $11.2 million to expand EV charging availability on Alabama's interstates – Yellowhammer News
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Electric vehicles on Alabama’s interstates are about to receive a big boost thanks to $11.2 million in grant funding recently awarded by Governor Kay Ivey.
The money has been divided into fourteen individual grants. Thirteen will be going towards installing electric vehicle charging stations at fueling locations found across Alabama’s interstate system. The remaining grant will be given to Bevill State Community College in Jasper, to help train students on installation and the up keep of electric chargers.
“Having strategic electric vehicle charging stations across Alabama not only benefits EV drivers, but it also benefits those companies that produce electric vehicles, including many of them right here in Alabama, resulting in more high-paying jobs for Alabamians,” Governor Kay Ivey said. “This latest round of projects will provide added assurance that Alabamians and travelers to our state whose choose electric vehicles can travel those highways and know a charging station is within a reliable distance on their routes.”
ADECA Director Kenneth Boswell also emphasized the importance of the new funding.
“Alabama continues to make progress in installing charging systems for electric vehicles along major roadways,” Boswell said. “ADECA is pleased to support Gov. Ivey’s efforts to ensure that drivers who choose electric vehicles have access to dependable charging infrastructure as they travel the state.”
Grants awarded and project locations are:
Falkville
- $768,782 to Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores to install two dual-port chargers at its location at 64 East Pike Road, off Interstate 65.
Gadsden
- $331,807 to Silver Comet Energy Inc. to install four chargers at the RaceTrac Store, 1715 W. Grand Ave., near Interstate 59.
Hamilton
- $656,166 to Love’s Travel Stop & Country Stores to install two dual-port chargers at its location at Marion County Highway 35, adjacent to Interstate 22.
Jasper
- $2.4 million to Bevill State Community College in Jasper to expand its current HVAC Training Center to include workforce training resulting in certification for the installation, testing, operation and maintenance of electric vehicle charging infrastructure.
- $788,921 to Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores to install two dual-port chargers its location at 83 Carl Cannon Blvd., near Interstate 22.
Heflin
- $656,166 to Love’s Travel Stop & Country Stores to install two dual-port chargers at its location at 6647 Alabama Highway 46, adjacent to Interstate 20.
Tuscaloosa-Cottondale
- $581,200 to BP Products North America Inc. to install three electric charging stations at Travel Centers of America Tuscaloosa, 3501 Buttermilk Road, near Interstate 20/59.
Eutaw
- $783,299 to Love’s Travel Stops and Country Stores to install two dual-port chargers at its 7561 Mesopotamia Street location, adjacent to Interstate 20/59.
Clanton
- $660,909 to Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores to install two dual-port chargers at its store location at 300 Arby Drive, near Interstate 65.
Montgomery
- $581,200 to BP Products North America Inc. to install three chargers at Travel Centers of America Montgomery, 980 West South Blvd., adjacent to Interstate 65.
Fort Deposit
- $759,024 to Priester Retail Stores Inc. to install two dual-port chargers at it store, 80 Bishop Bottom Road, adjacent to Interstate 65.
Evergreen
- $867,238 to Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores to install two dual-port chargers at its location, 16101 U.S. Highway 84, near Interstate 65.
Atmore
- $725,864 to Poarch Band of Creek Indians to install two duo-port chargers at Creek Travel Plaza, 4740 Jack Springs Road, near Interstate 65.
Irvington
- $639,564 to Love’s Travel Stop & Country Stores to install two dual-port charges at its location at 8400 County Farm Road, near Interstate 10.
Austen Shipley is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @ShipleyAusten
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Aerial gunnery training shows Alabama’s 1-131st Aviation Regiment's precision and resilience
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Alabama GOP chair says thinking of America as a democracy “leads to socialism”
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On Tuesday, 1819 News editor-in-chief Jeff Poor had three Republican officials on his radio show/podcast: Alabama Republican Party chair John Wahl, Congressman Jerry Carl, and state Rep. Shane Stringer.
Each spoke at length about their opinion on current events, including the state of the Democratic Party.
Wahl opined about the effects of last week’s presidential debate on President Biden’s re-election chances before launching into a discussion of the Democratic Party’s belief in democracy.
“Now, if you go back and you watch Ronald Reagan, every time Ronald Reagan spoke of our nation, he said ‘our republic,’” Wahl claimed. “Even our Republican elected officials say democracy far too often and we are not.”
Despite Wahl’s assertion, though, President Reagan frequently referred to America as an “experiment in democracy” and called American government democratic.
In a proclamation honoring Bill of Rights Day in 1985, he wrote that “democracy has provided the best and most enduring expression of man’s search for individual rights.”
Wahl continued: “The mainstream media wants us to think of ourselves as a democracy because that leads to socialism.”
Poor responded by pointing to the failure of the gambling bill in the state legislature.
“It’s just like the gambling bill and giving the people a right to vote,” he said. “Well, because we don’t do direct democracy, it’s a canard.”
“In Democratic Party politics, they emphasize democracy, emphasize democracy, emphasize democracy because that gets you where you want to be towards socialism,” Poor stated.
“Correct,” Wahl responded. “It’s a move towards socialism but it’s also where Democrats have always been. When you think about a democracy, it’s mob rule.”
When Carl joined Poor’s show, the Congressman spoke about the Supreme Court’s recent landmark decisions, namely overturning the Chevron doctrine and granting presidents wide-ranging immunity for official acts.
With its origins in a unanimous 1984 ruling by the Supreme Court, the Chevron doctrine held that courts should defer to administrative agencies’ legal interpretations so long as they are based on a “permissable construction of the statute.”
Legal experts say the decision will likely lead to significant uncertainty around federal regulations and increase the power of federal courts.
Carl focused his comments on the potential effects of the ruling on environmental groups.
“It’s usually the environmental groups that find out where that little glitch is at and they will sue the government based on that,” Carl said. “So they’ll get these huge settlements and by the law, we can’t find out how much they got.”
“Maybe a million, maybe 20 million. Could be a hundred million. We have no idea. But that money goes back to this environmental groups to do it over again.”
It’s unclear what Carl was referring to as most lawsuit settlements are public. He went on to say that overturning Chevron will “give us a chance to push back on the bureaucrats.”
Carl then elaborated on his previous statements about the Supreme Court’s ruling on Trump v. United States.
Released on Monday, the majority opinion declared that the president has presumptive immunity for all official acts and absolute immunity for a large subset thereof.
“We were really, really, really close to becoming a third-world country,” Carl said. “If [a president has] to make a decision, they need to make that decision on what’s best for the country, not what’s best for him.”
Echoing Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion, Carl said that the decision was necessary to stop a wave of tit-for-tat prosecutions of ex-presidents.
Poor compared the hypothetical to politics in Brazil. Current Brazilian president Lula da Silva was charged and convicted of corruption in 2017, but the conviction was overturned in 2021 before he successfully ran for re-election.
Lula’s opponent in the 2022 election, Jair Bolsonaro, allegedly had a memo drafted overturning the election results and his supporters stormed the Brazilian government a la January 6th. While Bolsonaro is under investigation, so far he has only been disqualified from holding public office in the near future.
Unlike Wahl and Carl, state representative Stringer almost exclusively focused on local issues while he spoke with Poor.
Speaking about the legislation pre-filed by state senators Ingram and Barfoot to allow interim police chiefs to be appointed when cities’ crime levels are above a certaim point, Stringer said he “[thinks] their concept would work.”
Stringer also harped on gun control not being the solution to what he perceives as a pressing crime problem.
“I’ve had to remind people over and over the the Second Amendment is not a group right,” he said. “It is not where, you know, a handful of thug individuals go out and cause problems and rob and steal and kill people and so we take everybody’s guns.”
A former member of law enforcement who was fired for supporting permitless carry, Stringer then touched on Alabama’s prison overcrowding problem.
“We cannot continue to let these inmates out early regardless of the overcrowding in the prisons. We have got to find a way to address the problems within the prison system,” Stringer said.
He suggested hiring part-time judges and prosectors as one potential solution.
The Tuesday broadcast of the Jeff Poor Show is streaming on the FM Talk 1065 website.
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