Sentences with phrase «consumers billions of dollars every year»

At an energy hearing earlier this month, state officials, including energy czar Richard Kauffman and Public Service Commission Chairwoman Audrey Zibelman, said R.E.V. initiatives would save consumers billions of dollars every year by making the entire energy grid more efficient.

«We worry today's proposal would upend competitive markets that save consumers billions of dollars a year,» said Amy Farrell, a senior vice president for American Wind Energy Association.

Systemic and organized fraud costs U.S. businesses and consumers billions of dollars each year.

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com, which has been permanently branded into consumers» minds through billions of dollars» worth of corporate ad spending over the years.»

Gasoline prices have dropped an average of 67 cents per gallon since the start of the year, saving consumers tens of billions of dollars at the pump.

We have already seen this model become a huge success in China with a billion dollar player emerging within a year of starting up... players like Pickingo will enable reliable and efficient movement of goods from the merchant to the consumer, vice versa and eventually even between consumers.»

Said Barbara Roper, director of investor protection of the Consumer Federation of America: «By closing loopholes in the current regulations and subjecting all retirement investment advice to a fiduciary duty to act solely in the best interests of the client, a well - crafted DOL rule has the potential to save millions of Americans billions of dollars each year.

Roper and other consumer advocates argue that conflicted advice is deeply engrained in the brokerage business model, echoing the concerns outlined in a recent leaked White House policy memo in which officials concluded that «the current regulatory environment creates perverse incentives that ultimately cost investors billions of dollars a year» in the form of unnecessary rollovers of 401 (k) plans into costly IRAs, and «excessive churning (repeated buying and selling) of retirement assets.»

Twitter's successful debut is likely to stoke interest in other up - and - coming consumer Internet companies such as ride service Uber, scrapbooking site Pinterest, accommodation service Airbnb and the payment start - up Square, all of which boast private - market valuations well north of a billion dollars and could go public in the coming years.

Lower dairy prices represented a mixed blessing, reducing ingredient costs for consumer products but also weighing heavily on the company's farmer - shareholders whose collective incomes have been slashed by billions of dollars in the last two years.

While more and more consumers are embracing supplements (to the tune of more than 25 billion dollars in sales per year)-- and more physicians are learning about them, Dr. Kulick says — some doctors are still skeptical about them.

Therefore, consumers are dumping hundreds of billions of dollars every year on bottled water.

The numbers indicate that consumer preference has shifted towards niche brands, which has added nearly a quarter of a billion dollars to the market in the past three years, according to NPD.

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D - MA) is one of its most vocal detractors, claiming consumers are «tricked out of billions of dollars every year on car loans.»

With many of its brands dating back over 50 years (e.g. SPAM and Dinty Moore were introduced in the 1930s) and supported by billions of advertising dollars over the years, consumers know and trust many of Hormel's products.

With an operating history dating back over 100 years and billions of advertising dollars cumulatively spent, Brown - Forman has created a loyal following of consumers who have developed a preference for the taste of its whiskeys.

Credit card companies make billions of dollars each year off consumers and consumer transactions.

Navient is currently embroiled in legal fight with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which earlier in the year filed a lawsuit contending the student loan servicer cheated borrowers out of billions of dollars by creating obstacles to paying back loans.

7) Car Repairs Consumers lose billions of dollars each year on unneeded or poorly done car repairs.

As consumers, we spend billions of dollars each year on goods and services, both online and in traditional stores.

And that's why we've proposed new programs to help Americans upgrade their homes and businesses and plants with new, energy - efficient building materials — new lighting, new windows, new heating and cooling systems --- investments that will save consumers and business owners tens of billions of dollars a year, and free up money for investment and hiring and creating new jobs and hiring more workers and putting contractors to work as well.

A hundred - plus years ago, wind energy was recognized as an antiquated, unreliable and expensive source of energy — and now, after hundreds of billions of wasted tax and consumer dollars, we find that (surprise!)

In recent years, the state of Minnesota has pursued a series of increasingly aggressive renewable energy and «clean energy» policies that cost electricity consumers billions of dollars, without achieving its ambitious environmental protection goals.

Like all of Obama's green expenditures (billions of dollars over past three years) this was another failure that reveals why governments should not be wasting tax - payer dollars subsidizing Al Gore and wealthy consumers.

Additionally, the value of food loss and waste is estimated at $ 161.6 billion dollars in the United States, meaning the average consumer spends $ 370 per year on food they never eat.

Today's announcement of backtracking on vehicle standards for model years 2022 - 2025 puts at risk tens of billions of dollars of fuel savings for consumers and big reductions in tailpipe emissions.

That distinction belongs to the insurance trade itself, which spends billions of dollars a year on direct advertising to consumers.

Lost or stolen data costs companies billions of dollars every year, and consumers are potentially responsible for those billions.

«We are finding that despite billions of dollars being spent on advertising each year, the percentage of consumers shopping for auto insurance has been dropping for approximately the last two years,» said Mark McElroy, executive vice president of TransUnion's insurance business unit at the release of the study.

Every year manufacturers blanket U.S. consumers with approximately 470 billion dollars worth of grocery coupons; only 3.7 billion dollars worth are redeemed.

Meanwhile, the sales revenue of HUAWEI Consumer Business Group (BG) in 2014 was 12.1 billion US dollars, breaking the US$ 10 billion mark for the first time, with year - on - year growth of 32.6 %.

Consumers finally have a chance to get the edge on ransomware gangs that have amassed billions of dollars in the past few years.

Over the course of seven years, the indictment alleges, the site grew to more than 10,000 members across the world and caused more than half a billion dollars in losses to consumers, businesses, and financial institutions.