Sentences with phrase «become more fuel»

«m all about reducing greenhouse gasses and the like, but yet we keep drilling for oil and not mandating our public transportation to become more fuel efficient!
As cars become more fuel - efficient, less heat is wasted in the exhaust, which makes it harder to clean up the pollutants that are emitted.
Milwaukee County's vehicle fleet is becoming more fuel - efficient, thanks to an infusion of Ford Fusion Hybrid vehicles unveiled Monday at Milwaukee County's Fleet Maintenance facility.

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The world added more energy from renewable sources than from fossil fuels in 2015 and 2016 — because they finally became cost effective.
The end result for business owners who use Amazon to fuel a revenue stream is that their business becomes more valuable, more defensible and more sustainable.
It reflects the type of commercial venture that's become more common over the past decade, fueled by decreases in launch costs and an influx of venture capital.
Nitrogen is also derived from natural gas, a fossil fuel that will likely become more expensive, putting fertilizer out of reach for farmers in the developing world who can barely afford it today.
Fuel theft is fast becoming one of Mexico's most pressing economic and security dilemmas, sapping more than $ 1 billion in annual revenue from state coffers, terrorizing workers and deterring private investment in aging refineries that the government, following a 2014 energy reform, hoped instead would be thriving with foreign capital.
Clean energy development has in recent years become much cheaper and more competitive with fossil fuel power, particularly large wind and solar panel farms.
Then I noticed the Sunoco fuel used by NASCAR teams is an E-15 blend... and long story short, in my effort to become more socially responsible, I have become an ethanol proponent.
«Biotech is becoming more important than ever to Big Pharma and becoming the fuel source for their drug pipelines,» says Nicholson, who once scouted for such acquisitions at Merck.
Rive argues that it should stay underground, that the oil majors look at the world through petroleum - coated lenses, and that the benefits of solar are so obvious that once the price becomes more competitive, fossil - fuel use will plunge.
As an example, if oil is high, $ KORN will rise as ethanol becomes more desired as an alternative source of fuel.
Major banks and brokerage firms became insolvent, adding more fuel to the stock market crash.
As such, the survey suggests that deflationary forces have abated, fuelling confidence that reflationary pressures are becoming more engrained in the economy.»
At the same time, the U.S.'s thirst for petroleum fuels has stalled as vehicles become more efficient.
That pricing power seems to be becoming even stronger during the downturn as pipelines consolidate and expansion of alternatives for moving fossil fuels become more difficult due to capital constraints.
Over the past several years, high - end hybrids and futuristic electric cars have slowly become more prominent on American roads as consumers realize the impact of fossil fuel consumption on the...
But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.
But as we become more conscious of these matters as part of caring for creation, we can recognize the need so to build as to free our congregations from dependence on fossil fuels for heating and cooling.
Unfortunately, having done so on more than a few occasions, it becomes apparent that it only serves as more» fuel» for the atheists fire.
Although the small, labor - intensive factories here envisioned are far more efficient than individual producers, they can become still more efficient when they employ fossil fuel energy and enlarge their production.
Their acclamation fueled his sense of indispensability, and he allowed himself to become more and more identified with their concerns and increasingly alienated from the Weld administration, which resulted in his eventual failure as an appointee.
A major national effort to become more efficient in the use of fuels will slow down the Greenhouse effect.
Now that energy is becoming the factor that is scarce and labor is plentiful, it would make more sense to replace fossil fuels by labor, especially at those points where that could also restore interest and dignity to work.
But it wasn't until 2007, when he had a monumental, eye - opening meal of lamb leg à la ficelle at the legendary Chez Panisse, that food became more than entertainment and cheap fuel.
With gas prices on the rise and global warming becoming more and more of a threat, many are turning to fuel efficient hybrids.
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Since then, the black - red icons have become symbols of violent street thuggery and vandalism, often fueled more by criminal lust, rather than actual goals to achieve by violence.
«Does he recognise that while other countries have spent the last decade diversifying their supplies of energy, Britain has become even more dependent on imported fossil fuels - threatening our energy security, our economic competitiveness, and our climate change objectives?»
RM: It is becoming quite politically impossible for a chancellor to raise fuel duty, given the annual pressure against any more rises from Tory backbenchers and the rightwing press.
Clark said the budget process has become a little more difficult for legislators because of the rising deficit, which this year, fueled by the economic recession, totaled $ 9.6 billion.
«The science is really becoming quite clear into the effects of fossil fuel extraction and consumption, and so renewable energy development is important to make our state more resilient in the face of climate change and these challenges.
The use of a cover like this one boosts your fuel mileage by 10 % at least, because your truck becomes more aerodynamic.
Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.
Though high - volume hydraulic fracturing in Michigan is limited today, the U-M study takes into account the possibility that it could become more widespread due to a desire for job creation, economic growth, energy independence and lower - carbon fuels.
As fuel economy and carbon emissions become more important to car buyers, manufacturers have identified cutting air resistance as a cost - effective way to improve these figures and so boost their product's appeal.
What we see is that if we continue in our current trends in burning fossil fuels, the ocean will become more acidic than it has been at any time in the past 65 million years.
More worrisome, blooms of cyanobacteria are becoming increasingly common, fueling fears that their toxic by - product may be quietly fomenting an upsurge in ALS — and possibly other neurological disorders like Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's as well.
As Zika becomes more widespread, the risk grows that an American traveler could bring it back to the U.S. and fuel a local outbreak or even — although much less likely — that infected mosquitoes may make their way overland to the U.S.. For his part, the infected tourist likens his experience with Zika to a «tough flu that kicks your ass, makes your muscles sore and Advil barely made a dent.»
At the same time, the aviation industry has become far more fuel efficient in the face of soaring prices.
As more fuels are burned, the problem may become more obvious.
In the first stage of this process, the more massive star of the pair begins to run out of fuel, transferring its outer layers to its less massive companion — which is destined to become the magnetar — causing it to rotate more and more quickly.
You know when you go down that road of clean tech, you not only have cleaner air, you not only have a new industry — an export industry that can't be outsourced so easily in global demand — you not only become more economically stable, because you're not shipping all those dollars abroad; you are not only able to become more secure because your source of fuel isn't dependent on the whims of some petro - dictator.
Achieving fusion — nuclear reactions that have the potential to produce copious, clean energy — requires heating hydrogen fuel to more than 100 million degrees Celsius, causing it to become an ionized gas or plasma.
This is according to the government's ambitious energy policy goals, which are driven by various well - known reasons: fossil fuels such as oil and gas are running out, becoming more and more expensive and are bad for the environment.
Some scientists have argued that thorium, a more abundant element that can be bombarded with neutrons to produce the fissile fuel isotope uranium233, could become the nuclear fuel of the future.
Energy from fossil fuels would become more expensive, as it must, yet the rebates would help offset the extra costs to consumers.
In some regions, the climate will become more arid, resulting in less vegetation in forests, with the end result being less fuel.
After all, if the nanoparticles can boost photosynthesis in those simple cellular organisms, then fuel, food and other products derived from algae might become more viable.
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