Sentences with phrase «big oil alternative»

Biofuel investment should amount to 0.3 billion dollars up to 2035, Birol adds — so the big oil alternative would receive just 3 percent as much * money as continued investment in the fossil fuel it is one day supposed to replace.

Not exact matches

High oil = dead economy, jack up the price, watch sales nose dive, watch alternative energy research sky rocket, watch big oils continued fall.

On the plus, side, high oil drives electric cars and alternative energy development which helps to punish big oil and quicker their irrelevance.

Corporate Knights said this analysis could explain «why some of the biggest oil sands players are gobbling up low - carbon patents and quietly running the numbers on different scenarios, such as when they should exit the oil sands or make the shift to becoming predominately alternative fuel and green energy firms.»

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And in a world swimming in oil, few companies and governments bother to spend big on alternative fuel technologies.

From a strategic standpoint, which is the bigger competitor for biofuels: incumbent coal, oil and gas technologies or other alternative energy technologies?

From a strategic standpoint, which is the bigger competitor for nuclear: incumbent coal, oil and gas technologies or other alternative energy technologies?

From a strategic standpoint, which is the bigger competitor to biofuels: incumbent coal, oil and gas technologies or other alternative energy technologies?

With oil - rich countries tightening control, Big Oil seeks tech fixes and alternative energy souroil - rich countries tightening control, Big Oil seeks tech fixes and alternative energy sourOil seeks tech fixes and alternative energy sources

I'm wondering if you think this mixture would be good / safe for cleaning breast pump parts... I am looking for an alternative to the name brand wipes and am a BIG fan of thieves oil.

In the 1980s, CSPI actually spearheaded a highly successful campaign against the use of healthy saturated fats, touting trans fats as a healthier alternative, so take their official stance against coconut oil with a (big) grain of salt.

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For too long a time our administration has either a) had its head buried in the sand or b) been too allied to big oil and big business to promote clean energy alternatives.

To stop paying OPEC would entail changing the mindset of this administration and its donors and supporters in big business, prominently including oil companies and associated war - profiteering companies like Hallburton, so I wonder about the depth of your commitment to alternative (renewable) energy sources; please correct me if I am wrong.

As alternatives to Big Oil and Big Coal emerge, it would be a mistake for executives to rely on loyalty or love from the public.

We will always need some level of hydrocarbon in our energy mix, but until we find alternatives to Oil we will be hostages to the big producers with the result of unstable geo - politics, conflicts, authoritarian regiemes and human suffering.

Alternative fuels have big advantages over gasoline, and electric - car purchases are rising, but more needs to be done to become less dependent on foreign oil.

Yes, alternatives are technically possible, but not at all likely on the scale and timeframes needed if global oil production declines soon (as is happening for Greater Burgan, the world's second biggest oilfield).

The question remains: Is Big Oil's investment in algae biofuels based on confidence in a credible alternative to fossil fuels, or is it nothing more than a public relations stunt?

Same old canard that Big Oil does not like alternative energy.

«It emerged at the international level, through the combination of, among others: (1) the conservationist interests of big environmental NGOs in the North, (2) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the North seeking low - cost alternatives to supposedly «offset» their continued and excessive emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases, (3) the interests of national and sub-national governments in the South seeking to obtain financial resources for the «protection» of forests in their countries, (4) the interests of corporations that could profit from market - tradable «offset» credits, including through speculation on secondary (derivatives) markets, which would allow them to continue destroying the forests for the extraction of timber, minerals or oil, the establishment of monoculture plantations, etc., thus expanding their business opportunities, and (5) the interests of consultants and other actors involved in financial capital markets who want to turn «unexploited» forests into a new market for this type of capital, through the commercialization of «environmental services» such as carbon sequestration, among others.»

Making big investments to get off oil, making clean energy alternatives widely available and cheap, and creating millions of new jobs in clean energy industries is a winner with American voters and can carry the whole suite of policies that we need to address global warming.

Mitchell Energy, rightly credited for pioneering shale gas fracking, was a medium - size firm in the oil and gas industry: big enough to invest substantial funds into R&D, but small enough as to have few alternatives other than to bet on shale.

WASHINGTON — Two of the world's leading oil producers have almost overnight joined some of the biggest players in wind power in the United States, accelerating a trend of large corporations investing in the rapidly growing alternative - energy field.

Besides, oil companies have given more money to fund research on alternative energy than they have to deniers, so why give big money to deniers and hand alarmists a major PR coup?

We need a carbon tax, collected and returned to US citizens, to force the big fossil fuel producers to get serious about alternative energy sources and move away from coal, oil and gas as quickly as possible.

As President Obama calls for greater investments in alternatives, the biggest energy companies are doubling down on riskier, more destructive oil sources

It has long been suspected that Big Oil and the major automakers have spent millions on strategic suppression and misinformation campaigns regarding alternatives to oil and the internal combustion engiOil and the major automakers have spent millions on strategic suppression and misinformation campaigns regarding alternatives to oil and the internal combustion engioil and the internal combustion engine.

With oil cheap and its supply apparently limitless, we over-consumed, created massive suburban vistas accessible only by car, and built great big gas guzzlers to ride around in, giving little thought to alternative energy sources.