Sentences with phrase «after the oil crisis»

The country doubled down on its nuclear bet after the oil crisis in 1973, convinced of the acute need for energy security built on a domestic source.

Japan says its focus will be promotion of energy efficiency «at the same level as the significant energy efficiency improvement after the oil crisis», as well as «maximum introduction of renewable energy, promotion of high efficiency in thermal power generation, and utilization of nuclear power generations whose safety is approved».

The country doubled down on its nuclear bet after the oil crisis in 1973, convinced of the acute need for energy security built on a domestic source.

Not exact matches

Still, many analysts say efforts after the oil shock to insulate the economy from future crises may have paid off.

At issue is whether Lehman's crisis was merely a temporary «liquidity problem,» that time would have cleaned up much like BP's oil spill in the Gulf; or, did the firm suffer a more deep - seated «balance sheet problem» (negative equity), as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke claims — a junk balance sheet, composed of assets that not only had no buyers at the time, but had no visible likelihood of recovering their market price even after the $ 13 trillion the Treasury and Federal Reserve have spent to bail out Wall Street.

This unpleasant picture is presented after a third quarter in which Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, traded at about $ 50 a barrel on average, the lowest sustained levels since the financial crisis.

Right after the 1973 oil crisis the number of vehicles manufactured in Brazil was one order of magnitude smaller (~ 750k units) than the US (7M +), despite having half the population (Brazil 108.4 million / U.S. 216 million).

But it wasn't until 1989, 16 years after that first line of GT - Rs was killed off by the 1973 oil crisis, that the hi - tech ethos synonymous with the badge today would first be established.

After the Arab oil embargo of 1973 and the 1979 fuel crises, a majority of American FR vehicles (station wagons, luxury sedans) were phased out for the FF layout — this trend would spawn the SUV / van conversion market.

In this issue, we address the economic costs of deflation, the evolution of investment after the financial crisis, the role of debt in the recent drop in oil prices, how financial inclusion affects central bank policy, and market liquidity.

There are successful plants harvesting heat from deep hot rock in Australia, Europe and Japan, the report noted, adding that studies of the technology largely stopped in the United States after a brief burst of research during the oil crises of the 1970s.

But for a lot of energy - dependent industries, there is little way to reduce energy use, as most measures were taken a long time ago (after the first oil crisis), and alternatives (still) are too expensive...

The American public will wake up to the current global oil and environmental crisis only after it's too late.

That paper was a central source for my 2006 article describing the country's longstanding, and bipartisan, abandonment of energy research and development after the last pulse of the oil crisis of the 1970s.

We have already seen the beginnings of this financial shaking in the 2008/9 economic crisis that was directly caused by the «plateauing» of crude oil production in 2005 after rising by 1 million barrels / day for twenty years in a row (from Non-OPEC peaking and OPEC cutting back production).

As an expert at the Tehran Oil Refinery, Mohammad Ali Hosseinpour changed how he thought about the environment after attending the Climate Reality Leadership Corps training in Istanbul in 2013, where he learned what the climate crisis meant for him and how he could inspire CEOs and business leaders to implement solutions.

Yes the switch away from oil and increased production after the first OPEC oil crisis did drive prices back down to < $ 10 / bbl.

However, the passive house standard which we know today was initially informed by these early solar houses, depended more on the developments after the first oil crisis.

Investor after investor, and nation after nation, have discovered this one more time (something similar happened after the 1970s oil crisis).

After the 1970s - era oil crises, Japan established the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) as a semi-governmental organization to research new energy technologies.

And we saw that for example with the BP British Petroleum oil crisis, where BP realized that after the oil spill everybody was talking about them on Twitter, everybody, and there was even a fake Twitter account parodying BP's response (@BPGlobalPR — still active with 182,033 followers).