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Distributing Drop-in Fuels: The Fastest Road to Something Else

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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the importance of our transportation system. Take a deep breath and think about this: the United States is locked-into $1.11 trillion dollars of transportation vehicles supported by $4.62 trillion of transportation infrastructure comprising 12 % of all the wealth in the nation (U.S. Commerce 2012).

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    Alice J. Friedemann

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Friedemann, A.J. (2016). Distributing Drop-in Fuels: The Fastest Road to Something Else. In: When Trucks Stop Running. SpringerBriefs in Energy(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26375-5_7

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