Sentences with phrase «as gasoline prices»

Energy prices fell by 3 percent over the month as gasoline prices were 4.9 percent lower than their level in February.

That's still below the 72.0 reading of February, as gasoline prices nationally have approached $ 4 per gallon.

As gasoline prices in the United States quickly climbed to $ 3 a gallon, the conversion of a $ 2 bushel of corn, which can be distilled into 2.8 gallons of ethanol, became highly profitable.

Why in the world would Honda be pursuing the extraction of Hydrogen from natural gas, when natural gas prices are going the same route as gasoline prices?

Refinery operators along the Texas Gulf Coast are hunkering down for Hurricane Harvey, while motorists far from the storm's path are also feeling the effects as gasoline prices rise.

More recently, most Tofas have been converted to use LPG fuel as gasoline prices soared and made the cars financially unfeasible in its unmodified state.

Many customers seem to have forgotten about fuel efficiency as gasoline prices fell, but Toyota hasn't.

launch in fall 2008IntroductionJust as gasoline prices were nudging up toward $ 3 a gallon, Honda, Toyota and Nissan introduced new sub-compact cars to the U.S. automotive market for the 2007 model year.

Sales of electric vehicles, plug - in hybrids, and hybrids may have taken it on the chin as gasoline prices dipped, but in combination, the green vehicle class continues to grow in both model selection and sales.

As gasoline prices climb, emphasis on fuel economy, particularly through advances in technology such as more hybrids or fuel cell - powered vehicles, just wasn't there.

The big sedan, that icon of American roads, became an endangered species as gasoline prices climbed, and drivers were not so keen on dumping the entire contents of their wallets in the tank.

Just in time to give consumers more choices of fuel - efficient cars as gasoline prices continue to spike, Kia has brought us the redesigned Rio subcompacts for 2006.

The research findings play a critical role for the future use of solar energy and other renewable energy sources, which is of great interest as gasoline prices are constantly setting new records.

Two centuries later, oil embargoes once again spurred wave - power designs, but they passed into memory as gasoline prices slid downward.

Courtemanche and his colleagues built a state - wide economic model of economic conditions that influence body weight: things like income and unemployment, food prices, retail outlet presence, as well as gasoline prices and the prevalence of fitness centers.

That's up 2.9 percent from last year as gasoline prices have fallen slightly.

Consumer prices rose 0.4 percent last month as gasoline prices rebounded, but economists had expected a bump up after a 0.1 percent increase in October.

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Energy prices fell by 3 percent over the month as gasoline prices were 4.9 percent lower than their level in February.

But price pressures had «eased slightly» in some districts as gasoline prices and dairy and crop costs fell.

Consumers are sending mixed signals, and other factors such as gasoline prices could turn into a serious headwind.

Manitoba saw the biggest jump in inflation, rising almost a full point to 2.7 per cent as gasoline prices rose 10.7 per cent.

The payback period for the incremental investment will shrink shrink shrink as the gasoline price expands expands expands... «just so we can get to the shore and back on a tankful».

Not exact matches

Alternative measures of inflation that adjust for the more volatile components of the price basket, such as gasoline, were moderately higher than the headline number.

Statistics Canada's Consumer Price Index rose one per cent in June from a year earlier, as cheaper gasoline allowed Canadians to stretch their paycheques, the agency reported July 21.

For example, refining margins tend to expand when oil prices decline as the savings refiners reap from using cheaper crude to make gasoline and other products aren't immediately passed on to consumers at the pump.

«Upward pressure on prices was weak in December, but we can expect price declines to narrow as the yen has weakened and this will eventually push up oil and gasoline prices,» said Shuji Tonouchi, senior fixed income strategist at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities.

As a result, Bloomberg researchers expect unsubsidized EVs to be comparable in price to their gasoline competitors within six years.

«We're still riding the wave, if you will, as a result of Hurricane Harvey, where gasoline prices jumped up afterwards,» Sinclair said.

Those closures, affecting a major U.S. oil refining hotspot, are pushing up the prices of energy products like gasoline and heating oil as investors anticipate a drop in supply.

Starting in 2017, Alberta will apply a $ 20 - a-tonne price on carbon emissions that will cover about 90 per cent of the economy, including essentials such as gasoline and home heating fuel.

Even with the tariff, U.S. ethanol exports hit a record high in February, thanks largely to rising Brazilian demand as higher gasoline prices and low international sugar prices made ethanol more competitive at the pump.

The global drop in oil prices, while terrible for Wall Street upon first blush, has yielded a decrease in gasoline prices that may act as a massive tax cut for those who have reaped very few benefits from the economic recovery.

In Indonesia, which ended gasoline subsidies in 2015 and lowered the diesel subsidy to 500 rupiah (3.6 U.S. cents) per litre in 2016, retail prices also haven't risen by as much as the price of crude oil.

The global drop in oil prices, while terrible for Wall Street upon first blush, has yielded a commensurate decrease in gasoline prices that may act as a massive tax cut for the very people who have, so far, reaped very few benefits from the economic recovery.

«Overall, the tone of this report was disappointing as it points to a weak start to spending activity this year, despite the significant boost to disposable income from lower gasoline prices,» said Millan Mulraine, deputy chief economist at TD Securities in New York.

While lower crude prices mean cheaper gasoline in the U.S., which should spur demand, that's not so much the case in other countries, where taxes represent a higher portion of the cost of gas (as in Europe).

Hastings said the falloff could be a function of the higher gasoline prices in the region as shoppers look to consolidate trips to save on gas.

Spikes in vegetable and gasoline prices make that job difficult, as they push the Consumer Price Index into the red.

However the high gasoline prices of the past year and increased acceptance of home - charged electric cars are helping condition consumers to adopt urban vehicles with limited range as a trade - off to escape the high cost of gasoline.

But that volatility, as Ghosh likes to note, is the upside of the integrated nature of the company, which gives it a continued hedge against the differential in world oil prices through its downstream and midstream assets — on the midstream side, Husky operates a 2,000 - kilometre crude - oil pipeline system, and its downstream operations include upgrading and refining crude oil, and marketing gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, asphalt and ethanol in Canada and the United States.

The election isn't until November, and gasoline prices go up instantly, as oil goes up.

Musk went on to cite the ownership cost of the Model S, should it enter production, as «similar to a gasoline car with a sticker price of about $ 35,000» once the lower cost of electricity versus the likely future price of gasoline was taken into account.

As diesel and gasoline prices follow crude's down, food prices will drop.

Eastern Canadian consumers are now paying high Brent prices for their gasoline, because our Alberta - Saskatchewan crude only goes as far east as Sarnia.

And while there's understandable anger that gasoline prices haven't come down as quickly, there's typically a lag effect, so analysts expect pump prices to drop further.

Layton was responding to criticism from Jack Mintz — the economist oft - quoted by Conservative Leader Stephen Harper as justification for his tax policies — that the cap - and - trade system the NDP proposed to cover the cost of $ 3.5 billion worth of green initiatives in the first year would raise gasoline prices by 10 cents per litre.

Overall retail sales slipped 0.8 percent in January, declining for a second straight month as falling gasoline prices undercut sales at service stations.

«There is a risk of a temporary soft patch for the economy as it is somewhat surprising the consumer has stopped spending their savings from gasoline prices,» said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at MUFG Union Bank in New York.

Gasoline prices, however, also reflect demand and follow national trends, such as the impact Hurricane Harvey had, causing gas prices to go up.