Sentences with phrase «differences in energy prices»

Not exact matches

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

This would increase fuel poverty for families and pensioners whilst, in contrast to Miliband's energy price - freeze, make a negligible difference on soaring bills.

The subsidy, in this case, is the opportunity cost of pricing domestic energy below international market levels, i.e. the rent that could be recovered if consumers paid world prices, adjusting for differences in variables such as transportation costs.

Because ethanol has one - third less energy than gasoline and does not make up the difference in price, the higher the ethanol blend, the more money you spend on each mile driven.

This difference in approaches helps explain the tension in how corporate America views green energy, carbon pricing, and other environmental innovations and regulations.

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL FIRST TO STATE THE OBVIOUS: with all the grandstanding about what to do about high prices at the pump, in today's NY Times Lead Editorial «Energy Follies» August 4, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/­2008/­08/­04/­opinion/­04mon1.html here's something we haven't seen said ANYWHERE: «plug - in hybrid cars that over time could actually make a difference in fuel prices.»

In December, Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey promised the North Yorkshire plant two lucrative «contracts for difference» — which would see it earn # 105 for every megawatt hour it generates, rather than the normal price of # 50.

But the essential difference in policy agendas is in the facilitation of energy R&D as opposed to pricing fossil fuels out of the market.

I think that it is quite simple to calculated the difference — take the cost of the car add the cost of the fuel that it will use over the lifetime add the maintenance cost add the cost of utilization and you will get the energy cost (the energy cost to built the car is already included in the car price).

But whenever the wholesale price is lower than the feed - in tariff (which it is most of the time), the difference is made up from the renewable energy surcharge (EEG surcharge), a levy that almost all consumers pay with their power bills.

The appliances cost a little more up front, but the money you save on energy bills in the long run more than makes up for the initial price difference.