AER Energy Reignites Sales of Used Motor Oil in Partnership With USA Recycling Industries, Inc.

   AER Energy Resources, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: AERN) has completed a lucrative agreement with USA Recycling Industries, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: USRI) of Reading Pennsylvania. AER Energy Resources, Inc. will broker all UMO collected by the over 4,000 automotive service center locations USA has under contract.

Stanley F. Wilson, AER Energy Resources, Inc. President, stated, "USA is a leading scrap metal service contractor and USA will now add the collection of the used motor oil (UMO) from its thousands of national automotive centers. AER has long been a leader in sales of UMO to refineries and will now assist USA in that process. AER is pleased to have this opportunity to assist USA."

Based on USA projections, the UMO collection revenue stream could generate as much as $100,000,000 in new sales to USA in 2012 and up to an estimated $5,000,000 in fee income for AER Energy.

ABOUT AER ENERGY RESOURCES, INC.

AER Energy Resources, Inc. (www.aernenergy.com) is a diversified holding company with an emphasis on oil and gas exploration, drilling, well completion and fuel distribution.

ABOUT USA RECYCLING INDUSTRIES, INC.

USA Recycling Industries, Inc. (www.usarecyclingindustriesinc.com) is a publically traded mid-market scrap metal recycler servicing commercial & industrial customers throughout North America. The Company now participates in a $75 billion global scrap metals market through its acquisition of Scrap USA in December 2010. Operating since 2007, Scrap USA has been focused on and successful in targeting the Automotive Service Centre Industry. It currently provides specialty recycling programs to more than 4,000 automotive service centre locations operated by some of the most recognizable names in that retail category. The Company's contracted automotive scrap metal suppliers are listed on the NASDAQ, New York Stock Exchange and others are owned by some of the world's largest hedge funds. Having developed a national footprint in its current market of scrap metal collection & processing the company is now comfortable with integrating other ancillary products such as used motor oil and other automotive related recyclables to its specialty services.

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