Sentences with phrase «higher fuel mandates»

Higher fuel mandates would create even smaller cars like what Europe has.

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His energy policy will likely favor the fossil - fuel industry, and his EPA will probably back off on the higher fuel - economy standards that are mandated for automakers — and that have spurred electric - car development.

The Federal Nuclear Waste Policy Act has mandated that deep - mine disposal of high - level radioactive effluent and spent fuel rods from nuclear reactors commence by 1998, but states with proposed geological sites are screaming foul.

The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, which Feinstein chairs and Alexander serves as the top Republican, may again include a mandate for DOE to designate a high level waste / spent nuclear fuel storage site, as they did in the 2012 bill that the last Congress did not pass.

With the testing industry struggling to keep up with the demand fueled by mandates for more student tests, the Bush administration needs to take dramatic steps to ensure that states have the ability to develop high - quality K - 12 assessments, the first report from a recently launched Washington policy group says.

The motorists» association says results show emissions of noxious gases up to four times the regulatory limits, while greenhouse - gas emissions and fuel consumption was up to 35 % higher than figures shown on the government - mandated Fuel Consumption Lafuel consumption was up to 35 % higher than figures shown on the government - mandated Fuel Consumption LaFuel Consumption Label.

Second, the higher engine compression ratio mandates the use of midgrade fuel.

In season 36, MotorWeek will continue to monitor the march toward higher mandated fuel economy and how the latest powertrain technologies, from turbocharging to all - electrics, are impacting new car designs.

IMPORTANT: Starting with 2015 model year vehicles, the Government of Canada has mandated new fuel economy test methods to better approximate typical driving conditions and styles by adjusting city and highway ratings to account for air conditioner usage, cold temperature operation and driving at higher speeds with more rapid acceleration and braking.

Our fuel prices have long been higher than the national average due to both a stringent «clean air» regulatorily mandated formulation and very high fuel taxes.

The upfront costs will be higher, and will need incentives / subsidies / mandates / deadlines, but the long term cost picture includes a trillion a year that we don't spend on fossil fuels, a huge savings.

Market - based principles should guide policymakers away from top - down, government - mandated ventures such as the flawed Renewable Fuel Standard — which could force higher ethanol blend fuels into the national supply, potentially damaging vehicle engines and saddling consumers with repair costs.

In recent years, politicians set impossibly high mandates for the amounts of ethanol motorists must buy in 2022 while also setting impossibly high standards for the fuel economy of cars sold in 2025.

If the ethanol mandate in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) required more, then you're running into the ethanol «blend wall» — that is, to satisfy the RFS, refiners would have to blend fuel with higher ethanol content than millions of vehicles are designed to Fuel Standard (RFS) required more, then you're running into the ethanol «blend wall» — that is, to satisfy the RFS, refiners would have to blend fuel with higher ethanol content than millions of vehicles are designed to fuel with higher ethanol content than millions of vehicles are designed to use.

• Kyoto Protocol • EU ETS • Australian CO2 tax and ETS • Mandating and heavily subsidising ($ / TWh delivered) renewable energy • Masses of inappropriate regulations that have inhibited the development of nuclear power, made it perhaps five times more expensive now than it should be, slowed its development, slowed its roll out, caused global CO2 emissions to be 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would otherwise have been, meaning we are on a much slower trajectory to reduce emissions than we would be and, most importantly, we are locked in to fossil fuel electricity generation that causes 10 to 100 times more fatalities per TWh than would be the case if we allowed nuclear to develop (or perhaps 1000 times according to this: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html • Making building regulations that effectively prevent people from selling, refurbishing or updating their houses if they are close to sea level (the damage to property values and to property owners» life savings is enormous as many examples in Australia are already demonstrating.

An excerpt from NACS» press release on the recent study notes, «The cumulative effect of the two mandates is that renewable fuels will be required to represent a significantly greater share of the market than originally anticipated — perhaps as much as 40 %, or four times higher than today.»

Here in the United States, farmers are pulling land out of the federal conservation program, threatening fragile habitats... Most troubling, though, is that the higher food prices caused in large part by food - to - fuel mandates create incentives for global deforestation, including in the Amazon basin.

If some kind of political change makes governments serious about hitting the 1.5 — 2.0 ËšC temperature targets from the Paris Agreement, it will mean doing everything possible to rapidly reduce emissions, from imposing high carbon prices to mandating the abandonment of especially harmful technologies and practices like burning coal and using exceptionally filthy fuel for international maritime shipping.

The study used high - resolution satellite images to identify where cropland expanded between 2008 and 2012, the four years following the passage of the Renewable Fuel Standard, which mandates the use of renewable fuels including biofuels.

While California voters rejected Propositions 7 and 10 — which though on paper would've expanded renewable energy mandates and given tax credits for alternative fuel vehicles, were seen by many as being so poorly worded as to be counterproductive — they did approve Proposition 1A: The Safe, Reliable High Speed Passenger Train Bond Act.

Support higher congressionally mandated standards and the development of alternative fuels.

Guidance recommends interventions across sectors, including comprehensive sexuality education in schools; higher age limits for alcohol consumption; mandating seat - belts and helmets through laws; reducing access to and misuse of firearms; reducing indoor air pollution through cleaner cooking fuels; and increasing access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene.