Sentences with phrase «when fuel crisis»

The diminutive size was born out of necessity in the late 1950s when a fuel crisis in Europe created a demand for a small, economical, yet practical car.

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EMISSIONS - Because diesel fuel is heavier and oilier than gasoline it can be more polluting, earning a reputation for sootiness when it came into wider U.S. automotive use during the 1970's oil crisis.

A typical example is the fuel subsidy crisis last January, when the government wanted to remove the subsidy on fuel and re-channel the savings to develop other sectors of the economy.

The result has been that the «resolution» of each of these financial crises created massive amounts of high - grade excess liquidity that was not withdrawn when market order was restored and provided the fuel that would produce the next credit boom and bust.

[126][130][131] During a 2008 House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the financial crisis, including in relation to the Community Reinvestment Act, when asked if the CRA provided the «fuel» for increasing subprime loans, former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines said it might have been a catalyst encouraging bad behavior, but it was difficult to know.

During the financial crisis when airlines weren't doing well, they introduced additional fees on award redemptions called fuel surcharges.

If we do what humanity has always done in the past, we're likely to burn all the fossil fuels, and then have a hard landing at a time of high population, with an unbearable climate posing existential risks, at just the time when we're facing the crisis fossil fuels running out.

There's no doubt this is an unsustainable business — I wonder what the fossil fuel industry will come up next when the NG crisis comes, which no doubt it will, sooner or later.

Any other solution that doesn't really talks about keeping fossil fuels in the ground is a false solution and gives us this fake sense that we are tackling the crisis when we are actually exacerbating it.

When fossil fuels are the number one source of human - caused GHG emissions, creating a planetary crisis of global warming that is already causing devastating extreme weather disturbances, we can't ignore it.»

When students at UCL in London escalate actions on campus highlighting the conflict between the university's research and its investments, and exposing the close connections of university council members to fossil fuel companies; when pressure from scientists, climate activists and museum employees force oil mogul David Koch to step down from the board of New York's American Museum of Natural History; when the City of Cape Town comes under pressure to divest from the companies at the root of the city's water crisis; when Nobel Prize winners urge the prestigious Nobel Foundation to cut their financial ties to fossil fuel companies, we have exactly the kind of impact we aim for with the Fossil Free campaWhen students at UCL in London escalate actions on campus highlighting the conflict between the university's research and its investments, and exposing the close connections of university council members to fossil fuel companies; when pressure from scientists, climate activists and museum employees force oil mogul David Koch to step down from the board of New York's American Museum of Natural History; when the City of Cape Town comes under pressure to divest from the companies at the root of the city's water crisis; when Nobel Prize winners urge the prestigious Nobel Foundation to cut their financial ties to fossil fuel companies, we have exactly the kind of impact we aim for with the Fossil Free campawhen pressure from scientists, climate activists and museum employees force oil mogul David Koch to step down from the board of New York's American Museum of Natural History; when the City of Cape Town comes under pressure to divest from the companies at the root of the city's water crisis; when Nobel Prize winners urge the prestigious Nobel Foundation to cut their financial ties to fossil fuel companies, we have exactly the kind of impact we aim for with the Fossil Free campawhen the City of Cape Town comes under pressure to divest from the companies at the root of the city's water crisis; when Nobel Prize winners urge the prestigious Nobel Foundation to cut their financial ties to fossil fuel companies, we have exactly the kind of impact we aim for with the Fossil Free campawhen Nobel Prize winners urge the prestigious Nobel Foundation to cut their financial ties to fossil fuel companies, we have exactly the kind of impact we aim for with the Fossil Free campaign.

Fact: «This perception that boys are in crisis is being fueled by psychotherapists and by the few horrifying cases... it is normal for people to think that some well - publicized behavior is common when it is in fact rare.

«At a time when more and families are uninsured and under economic assault, President Bush is fueling the health care crisis by denying women access to quality, affordable care,» said Reina Schiffrin, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic.