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Alternative fuel vehicles find more use among fleets
Much of the crude oil consumed in the U.S. is used to create the fuel we burn in our cars and trucks. Now, some managers of fleet vehicles in both the private and public sectors are making efforts to reduce their dependence on crude by using alternative fuel vehicles.
BP hopes to siphon up to half of oil in the Gulf  but concerns remain over a current carrying oil to Florida, East Coast
BP today said it was siphoning more than a fifth of the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, but concerns remain over the oil reaching a major ocean current that could carry it through the Florida Keys and up the East Coast.
BP: Latest fix for blown Gulf oil well is working
Oil company engineers on Sunday finally succeeded in keeping some of the oil gushing from a blown well out of the Gulf of Mexico, hooking up a mile-long tube to funnel the crude into a tanker ship after more than three weeks of failures.