Sentences with phrase «replacing oil imports»

200 nuclear power plants would eliminate over 50 % of U.S. carbon emissions as well as produce enough hydrogen capacity to replace all oil imports and related automobile emissions.

We not only have to replace coal baseload to get the really big CO2 cuts but we also need to replace oil imports and power transport.

Not exact matches

The fiber and fuel derived from hemp would be carbon neutral and as such wouldn't contribute to global warming — and in fact could help mitigate rising temperatures by replacing chemical - intensive crops like cotton and imported fossil fuels like oil and gas.

The ultimate objective: «to replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025.»

And if hybrids become cheap enough «just replacing 1 percent of [U.S.] vehicle fleet translates into $ 4 billion in [consumer] savings, $ 80 billion in oil we don't import and 50 million tons of CO2 reduction.»

We've got a choice: Either we're going to continue importing efficient cars to help replace foreign oil, or we're going to employ our own people to make efficient cars and import neither the oil nor the car — which sounds like a better idea.

In just ten years, these steps will produce enough renewable energy to replace all the oil we import from the Middle East.

But even much higher supplies of wind power would improve security only marginally, because the U.K. would still have to import just as much oil (wind replaces mostly coal, rarely oil) and much of its gas, leaving it dependent on Russia.

As recently as 1980, imported oil supplied over 90 percent of the heat for these systems, but by 2005 it had been largely replaced by wood chips, urban waste, and lignite.

This would open the market to ethanol that could be produced from the «420 million tons of biomass easily harvestable in the U.S.» Sharp also said that the ethanol generated from that biomass could replace at least half — about 45 billion gallons — of the oil the U.S. imports annually.

«We're making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that's actually made from a plant - like substance — algae... we could replace up to 17 percent of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in America.»

Bakken's light, sweet crude oil replaces imports, fuels our vehicles, powers our economy, and provides raw materials for many essential products.

For the USA it is critical to replace the millions of barrels of expensive imported crude oil used primarily for transportation with local alternates, i, e, more US oil, shale oil or gas, biofuels (NOT corn!)

In the longer - term, investment in oil and gas remain essential to meet demand and replace declining production, but the growth in renewables and energy efficiency lessens the call on oil and gas imports in many countries.

As recently as 1980, imported oil supplied over 90 percent of the heat for these systems, but by 2007 oil had been largely replaced by wood chips and urban waste.

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After seven years of trying, the idea that we can simply replace a significant (or even a measurable) amount of imported oil with agrofuels at prices equal to or below the price of oil has proven to be a pipe dream.

A postscript to our post explaining that the crude oil the Keystone XL pipeline would deliver is comparable to other heavy crudes already being refined in the U.S.: Oil sands crude would replace other heavy oils — most significantly, crude currently imported from Venezueoil the Keystone XL pipeline would deliver is comparable to other heavy crudes already being refined in the U.S.: Oil sands crude would replace other heavy oils — most significantly, crude currently imported from VenezueOil sands crude would replace other heavy oils — most significantly, crude currently imported from Venezuela.

A whole good idea would be to make a payroll - tax holiday the first step in an orderly transition to scrapping the payroll tax altogether and replacing the lost revenue with a package of levies on things that, unlike jobs, we want less rather than more of — things like pollution, carbon emissions, oil imports, inefficient use of energy and natural resources, and excessive consumption.

With more electric vehicles in our state, we import less oil — and replacing that energy source with locally produced electricity is thus a net benefit to Washington's economy.