When To Treat For Cold Flow: Navigating Diesel's Seasonal Challenges
As winter beckons, a prudent eye turns towards the fuel tanks and the specter of cold flow problems that lurk in the colder months. Understanding...
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Ask American web users who rules the Internet, and they will probably cite Google, Yahoo and Amazon.com. And those are well known for good reason. Google.com is the most widely used search engine on the internet, processing more than 3 billion searches per day. Amazon.com is the world's largest internet retailers and is second behind Walmart as the largest seller of goods on the planet. Yahoo.com is neck and neck with Google for the most web sites visited through its searches.
Alibaba.com
If you don't know Alibaba.com, you probably will soon. It's the world's largest business-to-business commerce site and rivals Amazon as the largest business-to-consumer seller on the planet. The reason most Americans don't know about Alibaba.com is probably because it operates out of China (still somewhat of a mystery to Americans) and they don't grasp how immense the Chinese economy is, or has the potential to be. In 2012, just two of Alibaba.com's "portals" handled more money in sales than eBay and Amazon put together.
Bell Performance and Alibaba - A Great Partnership
Because Bell Performance serves consumers and businesses all around the world, it's a natural fit that Bell would partner with Alibaba.com. And so we've been doing that for 3-4 years now. Recently, some staff at Alibaba paid the Bell offices a visit to create a video talking about Bell's partnership with them. So we decided to put the video up on the Bell blog this week.
We think they did a pretty good job. What do you think?
Budget Busters For Municipalities - Cold Flow Problems
Heading into the winter, we’ve been reminded of the problems that local and private groups (city and county governments, small to medium businesses)...
Where To Sample Your Stored Fuel
Fuel storage and maintenance is a topic of great significance, especially for industries relying heavily on fuel-based operations. A recent episode...
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Shrinking fuel distributor margins a problem for the industry
Do you know where all the money in the cost of a gallon of gasoline goes? We've blogged about this before and the answers surprise a lot of people. ...
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ULSD Additives
Today's #2 ultra low sulfur diesel fuels (ULSD) fall short of the desirable properties of diesel fuels from the past in several key areas. These...
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Thinking about propane additives in cold weather - ways to improve
Propane heating fuel is good stuff. And that's great news considering that the United States and Canada have access to more natural gas resources...