Current Supply Chain Issues

Some Current Supply Chain Issues (suggestions)

Fuel & Alternative Fuels

Oil (Gasoline and Diesel)

Biodiesel

Electricity

Ethanol

Natural Gas

Propane

Hydrogen

http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/oil.html Oil Consumption and reserves

http://www.eere.energy.gov/afdc/ Alternative Fuel Sources

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http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/ieo/oil.html

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The world's 50,000 merchant ships, which carry 90 per cent of traded goods from oil, gas, coal, and grains to electronic goods, emit 800 million tonnes of carbon dioxide each year. That's about 5 per cent of the world's total.Their fuel costs rose by as much as 70 per cent last year.

Hermann Klein, an executive at Germanischer Lloyd classification society, says that dramatic increase has ship owners clambering onto a bandwagon to reduce speed as a way to save fuel and cut the greenhouse gases that cause global warming.

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The coastal vessel MS Beaufort with a SkySails kite propulsion system. (www.skysails.info: Supplied)

Presentation:

Your job is to create a 10-15 minute presentation on one of the above topics or a topic you discover on your own. (i.e. You do not have to select one of the above topics). You will be educating the class on your topic. As such, you must become knowledgeable on your topic. The format to follow is shown below;

I. Introduce your topic. A description of what your topic is about . For example, if your topic was WEEE/ROHs what does this stand for? What does it mean? Where did come from?

Fuel & Alternative Fuels

II. Why is your topic a supply chain...