Sentences with phrase «fuel standard since»

Because Canada's westernmost province has had a Clean Fuel Standard since 2010 — and has seen clean fuel use double.

Automakers favor the implementation of the stricter fuel standards since gasoline sold in Europe and Japan already meets the lower - sulfur standard, and could design engines for a global standard, rather than calibrating them for regional variations in fuel.

Not exact matches

OTTAWA — Rising gasoline and car prices fuelled the first significant spike in Canada's cost of living since February last month, lifting the annual inflation by half a point to 1.2 per cent — still low by historial standards.

Though the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards have been in effect since 1975, they have recently entered more greatly into the public conversation, as the Trump Administration has called for review and re-write of these regulations, in hopes of making them less stringent.

Since carbon dioxide (CO2) is the natural by - product of the combustion of fuel, the increased standards would also address climate change by reducing tailpipe emissions of CO2.

Implementation of the new standards would dramatically add to the billions of barrels of fuel already saved since the beginning of the CAFE program in 1975.

The standards have been in the works since 2009, but in the last few months a backlash has grown, mostly fueled by critics who worry the standards represent federal government overreach.

In standard mode, the color screen presents a traditional tachometer in which a digital speedometer and the gear indicator are embedded, flanked by readings for the trip odometer, hours since engine start, temperature and fuel gauge, and speed and fuel - consumption figures.

Since consistency is one of the most important things to good fuel mileage, they may have found that normal engine braking for a standard driver was more of a hindrance.

Last week, the automaker also revealed that it hasn't been in compliance with Japanese fuel economy testing standards since 2002.

It is why natural - gas extraction — the controversial practice known as fracking — has been virtually free of environmental regulation since 2005, and why government - owned car companies get to use taxpayer money to lobby against stricter fuel - economy standards proposed by the government.

Since then, the company has been assessing how much it would cost to produce the car and what effect an increase in government - mandated corporate average fuel economy standards might have on the project.

VED rates for the model tested come in at # 130 for the first year - included in the car's OTR price - because of an official CO2 figure of 106 g / km and then # 130 standard rate since the mild hybrid system qualifies it for the # 10 alternative fuel discount.

Since its launch, Sorento has offered discerning consumers a refined and value - minded CUV with class - leading power and fuel efficiency while delivering a full roster of standard comfort and convenience features and an impressive array of safety equipment.

In my view (and I've seen energy and environment close up in every election since Pres. Nixon's rather revolutionary Environmental Message of the early 1970s == too bad there was that third rate break in to spoil his record) the tests for all the candidates will be whether they will substiture oil taxes for off - oil subsidies, carbon taxes to level the whole field, and then and only then decide where we need to push or pull a bit (like with the fuel economy standards, long over due, and boy will they take a long time to arrive in full force.)

As neatly summarized in Climate Central, they found that the Renewable Fuels Standard has cut U.S. oil demand only slightly since 2006 and has even caused a net increase in our total greenhouse gas emissions.

The U.S. ethanol industry is facing the most intense pressure to reform since the 2005 Renewable Fuel Standard was implemented.

To your question, Leo, we are very proud of the work that we've been able to do over the last eight years here in the United States — doubling fuel efficiency standards on cars; really ramping up our investment in clean energy so that we doubled the production of clean energy since I came into office.

Renewable fuels have been mandated under federal law for over a decade, since the passage of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), and current RFS policy is broken, outdated and ineffective.

Many environmentalists, for example, believe that modern civilization can not survive unless we abandon fossil fuels, which have made possible the huge improvements in standards of living since the Industrial Revolution.

These new California standards also had the effect of improving fuel economy, since the only way to significantly reduce carbon dioxide pollution from gasoline is to burn less of it.

The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has increased ethanol production by about 400,000 barrels per day (bbl / d) since 2000.

The Physical Science Basis (sic)(Solomon et al. 2007) is the complete absence of any science — it never shows the chemical formula for combustion of a hydrocarbon fuel, yet that combustion is what it demonises, even though it has been the basis for the huge improvement in global living standards since 1750.

It's one of the world's largest auto shows and the first major show since the country set new fuel - economy standards in December (see President Signs Energy Bill and Senate Rejects Incentives to Pass Energy Bill).

Under the standard, which has been in full effect since Sep 1 2007, renewable fuel imports into the US are deemed to be «fossil fuels» for purposes of establishing compliance with US renewable fuel mandates unless the foreign plant owner agrees that their plants are effecitvely on US soil for purposes of US enforcement of EPA standards.

Since President Donald Trump's administration took office, the auto industry has been clamoring to have the strict fuel economy standards set by his predecessor reversed.

Supporters call the existing standards — known as the corporate average fuel efficiency (CAFE) standards and created in the 1970s during the energy crisis — one of the great environmental success stories, saving the country billions of barrels of oil that would otherwise have been burned in the 30 years since enactment of the law.