Sentences with phrase «hitting the gas from»

Hitting the gas from a stop, the 2017 Volvo V90 Cross Country's authoritative acceleration surprises and impresses me, because I know only four cylinders propel this big, heavy wagon.

Not exact matches

Oklahoma was shaken late Wednesday night by two of the strongest earthquakes to hit the state in recent years, the latest in a series of temblors that many researchers believe are caused by the burial of wastes from oil and gas drilling in the state.

Precision shares, though, are off nearly 30 % from their all - time high, as the company's earnings have been hit by weakness in the oil and gas sector, where the majority of the company's non-aerospace sales come from.

Scoring a major asset at a time when oil prices had hit major lows has transformed Perth - based junior Kalrez Energy NL from a gold explorer to an oil and gas producer.

In addition to oil and gas producers, manufacturers worry about maintaining their access to the American market, and whether they'll be hit by new Republican protectionism — arising from the White House or Congress.

The national average retail price of regular gas hit a four - month high of $ 3.78 a gallon toward the end of February, according to Energy Information Administration data, up almost 15 % from the start of the year.

The board, which regulates the province's oil and gas industry, said it expects oil sands production to hit 3.8 million bpd in nine years, up from 1.9 million bpd in 2012.

B.C.'s annual carbon pollution from LNG and natural gas, industry and utilities, transport, and buildings is projected to hit 68 Mt in 2030 under B.C.'s climate plan — an 8 - Mt increase from today.

While in the Kids Activity Area, kids can dig in a garden and win a prize from Nicor Gas if they avoid hitting pipes.

Police pushed back against the rioters, peppering the crowd with tear gas grenades from behind riot shields and hitting the crowd with water cannon.

But the partnership, heralded as a significant break - through when gas from Nigeria hit Ghana in December 2008, has been troublesome on an uncomfortable number of occasions.

The Executive Budget is proposing a massive $ 651 million increase in the state's «Section 18 - A» assessments on utilities (increasing the assessment rate from.3 percent of revenues to 2 percent), a significant share of which will hit electric and gas utilities, with a direct pass through to their business customers.

HIT THE GAS Jets from supermassive black holes, like the one shown in this artist's illustration, could be ultimately responsible for three different types of enigmatic high - energy particles.

You can identify volcanic basalt from its tiny pockmarks, formed by bubbles of escaping gas that froze in place when hot magma hit the cool air.

Billions of dollars in public and private capital for energy investment are up for grabs as developed countries like the United States and emerging economies like India get down to brass tacks on how they will hit their greenhouse gas emissions pledges and move their energy systems away from fossil fuels.

Beatty believes that when 570 degree Fahrenheit water from thermal vents hits cold, deep ocean currents, several light - producing processes may occur: sonoluminescence from imploding gas bubbles; chemiluminescence from chemical reactions (analogous to fireflies lighting up); crystalloluminescence from the formation of crystal bonds; and triboluminescence from the breaking of those bonds.

Laser light shining on the gas liberates electrons from all the argon atoms it hits.

The solution Boyd hit upon was to use a system first developed in the 1960s to generate a hydrogen plasma — that is, hydrogen gas that has been electrified to separate the electrons from the protons — to remove the copper oxide at much lower temperatures.

In Morbidelli's revised model, Uranus was hit before its satellites formed from a disk of gas and dust surrounding the planet.

Gas from the comet is likely to have hit Mars, and would have done so at a speed of 125,000 miles per hour (56 kilometers per second).

BURPS of hot ionised gas from the sun can knock out satellites and power grids when they hit Earth (New Scientist, 21 March, p 31).

When the radiation from this object hit the gas cloud, it excited oxygen atoms, causing the cloud to glow green.

The galaxy hosts a bright quasar that may have illuminated the ghostly structure by hitting it with a beam of light from hot gas around a central black hole.

On sex: When people experience difficulty with sex it's usually not because there isn't enough stimulation hitting the gas peddle, it's usually because there is too much — stress, shame, discomfort with their body, a lack of feeling safe, disconnection from their partner — hitting the breaks.

All Highlanders have a hill - start aid that holds the brakes for up to three seconds from a stop to prevent the SUV from rolling backward before you have time to hit the gas.

«Tweren't nothing or nobody going to stop me from making my appointed rounds in the motley procession of deathmobiles my pals and I rode around in, back when drum brakes, eight - track players, and leaded gas were as much a part of everyday life as platform shoes, fringe vests, and the radio hits of the Electric Light Orchestra.

Up to 184 hp from a SKYACTIV ® - G 4 - cylinder delivers searing performance, so you're almost in hot - hatch territory when you hit the gas.

The ES hybrid takes about a second longer than the gas ES to hit 60 MPH from rest, but it isn't what you'd call slow.

Simply remove your foot from the brake pedal and the engine fires back up in the seconds before you can hit the gas.

This motor adds up to an extra 130 pound - feet of torque that kicks in as soon as you hit the gas, which greatly improves towing from a standstill, and lets San Jose drivers tow up to an impress 12,750 pounds.

Stomp on the gas from a standstill and you'll wait 11.5 seconds to hit 60 mph.

The original thesis had played out, but the effects of the drop in natural gas prices had to a large extent offset the rebound from the hit shares took when gas properties were revalued down in June 2011.

Even shows that went on as scheduled took a hit because of fears of the outbreak; the Los Angeles area economy lost an estimated $ 100,000 in revenue from lodging, food, gas and entertainment because of reduced entries at the Memorial Day Classic in 2011.5 By vaccinating horses before exposure, you can help protect them against an EHV outbreak and against economic loss.

Gas prices hit an all time high during the summer of 2006 and the pain at the pump, while somewhat less these days, is still being felt by almost everyone, from commuters to soccer moms.

To hit the annual thresholds, I would have to divert spending from categories that are already bonused as much or more on other cards (groceries, gas, travel) only to have the points I earned convert at a lower rate.

Animals had their own attributes, too: rabbits would try to jump out of harm's way, skunks would hit you with gas that lowered your health, and deer could get away from you quickly.

There are way too many racing games which gives the control complete control from the beginning, there are no real skill involved you just push the gas and drift through the different turns until you finally hit the finish line, these are mostly arcade racing games and there is fun to be had there too, but Sebastien Loebs Rally Evo is nothing of the sort, this is nitty, gritty, in - your - face racing.

But, hey, it's not like getting tear - gassed, hit with a high - pressure spout from a firehose, or attacked by police dogs, is it?

He seemed to hit his stride from 2008 through 2010, when those fighting efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions were buoyed by email hacks, the Great Recession, the breakdown of climate talks in Copenhagen and a stutter - step in the global warming trend.

The International Energy Agency has reported that global emissions of carbon dioxide from energy use, tracking the recovering world economy, hit a new high of 30.6 billion metric tons of the gas last year.

EPA Rules Controlling Greenhouse - gas Emissions — The big day for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy should come sometime in June, when her agency is scheduled to unveil historic standards controlling carbon emissions from the nation's fleet of power plants, which includes nearly 600 coal - fired plants poised to be hit the hardest, because coal emits more carbon than oil or natural gas.

But the dark side of the oil industry hit the front page on June 6, 1892, the day after a raging flood swept down the Oil Creek Valley in Pennsylvania, carrying with it a sheen of oil and «waves of gas from distillate and benzene.»

We recognize that climate change impacts hit those already suffering from poverty and insecure living conditions «first and worst» and, in a majority of instances, these populations bear little responsibility for contributing the greenhouse gas emissions primarily responsible for climate change.

To make up for the missed revenue from the taxes and fire prevention fees, as well as to pay for offsets to counteract additional allowances put on the market if the carbon price hits its upper bound, money will be taken from the cap - and - trade program's revenue, effectively decreasing the amount of discretionary funds remaining for local environmental investments and other greenhouse gas reduction projects.

It would be a major long term hit to our economy for the US to generate more electricity from natural gas while the alternatives of energy efficiency and renewable energy are far more economically and environmentally affordable.

The amount of electricity from coal - fired power plants hit a record low while that from natural gas generators hit a record high.

They ask, What if we hit the brakes on climate change by tracking gas emissions from space?

Global greenhouse gas levels have hit their highest point in at least 3 million years, according to new figures from the World Meteorological Organisation.

My point is that the gas is doing work on itself (and in that sense the expansion isn't «free»), and that the directed radial motion that results is not thermal energy; this KE would contribute to the gas's temperature again if the expansion were reversed isentropically, or the gas hit a wall and randomised it irreversibly, but not if it were instead extracted from the bulk flow by eg turbines or pistons.

Fossil Fuel is a generic term that isn't quite correct Natural Gasoline is a distilled derivative of oil but almost all ofit is manufactured from cracked and recombined oil derivativeswhile natural gasoline is further refined intoPropane, butane, Proproline (a plastics feed stock), and Natural gasand also separates out sulfur (for fertilizer and explosives) Gasoline can be made from coal («Coaline») or from organic matter («Bio-fuel») but uses a few of oil based feed stocks instead tomake «Sythiline» (artificial gasoline) This gasoline is actually cleaner burning then natural gas with allit's «flare offs» (butane, propane, propoline, sulfur) used in theearly 19th century because it is manufactured only with essentialHydrocarbons Diesel fuel is also becoming more and more Manufactured instead ofdistilled as demand for it rises but improvements in Hydro cleaningis allowing for diesel with no volatile chemicals like sulfur andmercury (taken out for petro - chemical feedstock to make fertilizerand thermometers) In both cases what you have is pure hydro - carbons, a carbon atomwith hydrogen atoms attached to it In the case of gasoline there is CH1, cH7, CH11 When in a combustion engine the gasoline is sprayed into the pistonafter being mixed with air and the drive of the engine compressesthe the chamber filled with the gasoline mist until it's full downstoke then the spark plug causes the Exothermic reaction... which isthe conversion of the potential energy in the gasoline mist to heatand force, with the force side of that equation shooting the pistonupward and the top of the stroke kicking what's left of thecaramelized gasoline mist out into the Emission control box If the Emulsion control box wasn't there to filter out the burntgasoline particles, any potential additives and volatile chemicalsthen the caramelized gunk hitting air would create CARBON MONOXIDEin the cooler then the heat of the engine difference CARBON MONOXIDE can also become a problem if the Emissions controlBox filter, air filters or muffler filters is worn or damaged.