Sentences with phrase «effects on fuel prices»

Keep reading to learn more about who's making it, corn and other feedstocks, and ethanol's effects on fuel prices.

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«The largest upward effect in April came from transport, in particular, fuel prices,» the ONS said.

«Although fuel prices fell between March 2017 and April 2017, they were 11.5 % higher than they were in April 2016, thereby having an upward effect on the inflation rate.»

Changes in currency, net of lower fuel prices and derivatives, is expected to have a $ 0.03 — a $ 0.03 negative effect on Q3's earnings.

That means making sure prices cover not only the direct costs of supplying energy but also the environmental externalities associated with production and use of fossil fuels — the waste water (which increases a variety of risks), and the broader side effects from vehicle use — congested roads, traffic deaths, and so on.

The negative effects of lower oil prices hit the economy right away, and the various positives - more exports because of a stronger U.S. economy and a lower dollar, and more consumption spending as households spend less on fuel - will arrive only gradually, and are of uncertain size.

Important near - term influences on prices will be the significant increases in production costs that have occurred recently, arising from higher fuel prices, increases in a range of other commodity prices and the effect of the lower exchange rate on prices of imported inputs.

Experimental central bank monetary policy across the globe has fueled global stock price appreciation, but a dangerous dependency on stimulus to generate ever - higher market returns is a possible side effect.

John Leahmann has an item in the Sunday Telegraph about the effect of the Coles / Woolworths shopper - docket undertakings on fuel prices: see John Lehmann, «Motorists hit with record petrol prices after ACCC attack on shopper dockets backfires» (The Daily Telegraph, 15 March 2014)

But Alhassan Tampuli speaking on the increase said apart from the effect of the hurricanes, the international price at which fuel currently sells also has had an impact on the price build - up as well as the cedi - dollar rate.

It has been suggested in many quarters that VED should be abolished, and fuel duties increased accordingly, insofar as the price of fuel has a greater incentive effect on reducing emissions.

As attorney general, Pruitt in 2013 filed a friend of the court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in which he argued the EPA ignored the risks that gasoline with more than 10 percent ethanol can pose to cars» fuel systems as well as the RFS requirement's possible effect on food prices.

The Federal government's Bureau of Transport and Communication Economics has worked out the effect of price changes on petrol use, and the Federal Office of Road Safety has shown there is a link between fuel use and fatal accidents.

(The decoy effect works on humans, too: When buying a used car, for example, consumers who value a lower price over fuel efficiency may choose car B over car A, which costs more but has superior efficiency.

«The methodology can not be used to infer anything about the direct impacts of specific policies, such as power plant emissions limits or renewable portfolio standards, or the effect that changes in relative prices may have on fuel choice, such as the impact of the change in supply or price of natural gas or renewables may have had on the competitiveness of coal.

The effects on certificate prices and fuel demand are calculated with respect to the individual reaction functions of households and carriers.

The changes will go into effect in June, but through the end of the year current award prices (with current fuel surcharges) can continue to be booked on request by phone.

Now is the time to cut fossil fuel subsidies and implement a carbon tax, it argues, as the low oil price reduces the policies» effect on consumers.

Generally speaking, environmentalists support the idea of putting a price on carbon because it would help account for the harmful effects of carbon emissions on the climate and encourage the economy to shift away from fossil fuels.

Using corn for fuel rather than food caused a worldwide spike in food prices with grievous effects on the world's poorest.

It is impossible to reach the President's highly ambitious goals within the relatively short timeframes he desires unless the US Government puts a stiff price on carbon and unless it takes a series of coordinated actions which have the effect of directly or indirectly limiting the supply, availability, and consumption of all carbon fuels.

«Excessive prices for oil and food» to a certain extent the result of policy restrictions on the use of hydrocarbons, the effect of extrusion from the structure of arable food crops through improved crop plants from which ethanol is produced to replace hydrocarbons as fuel.

My colleague Matt Hourihan wrote a great review of the effect price has on technology change and found that price — especially the small to moderate carbon pricing and fuel taxes talked about within policy circles — will do nothing but drive incremental technology change.

I know many on this site beleive peak oil is a bigger threat than global warming, but I can't help but think the 20 - 100 year time lag between CO2 release and maximum effect is a far less addressable than issues of increasing fossil fuel prices.

If there's one thing everybody knows about carbon pricing, it's that there's not much effect on consumption of transportation fuels.

«The methodology can not be used to infer anything about the direct impacts of specific policies, such as power plant emissions limits or renewable portfolio standards, or the effect that changes in relative prices may have on fuel choice, such as the impact of the change in supply or price of natural gas or renewables may have had on the competitiveness of coal.

On Friday (Dec 5), the NDRC announced further proposals for energy price reform in the petroleum sector that would come into effect January 1 by indirectly linking domestic fuel prices to international crude oil prices as well as substantially increasing fuel taxes.

So if fossil fuel combustion produces byproducts that cause negative health effects on third parties as well as changes in the temperature of the atmosphere, the obvious lesson from economics is to increase fossil fuel prices enough through taxation to account for these effects.

Tragically, the net effect on the global atmospheric commons will be negligible, because if enough consumers respond to non-price incentives to reduce their consumption, the direct price of fossil fuels will decline, making it economic for others to increase their consumption.

Which I consider unlikley, both from the effect on consumption of rising fossil fuel prices (eg, US c02 emissions are back to 1990 levels, down 17 % from 2007 peak) AND development of new technology during the next two generations.

I do worry a bit about the effect cheap gas prices have on the development of electrification, but with fuel economy standards become ever - stringent, it's probably not that big a deal.

Dire predictions like that do more than grab the attention of the media; they can shake consumer confidence and help make such predictions self - fulfilling as home buyers stay on the sidelines, pressuring sellers to lower prices — in effect fueling a downward spiral.

«Ongoing job growth continues to fuel demand for housing, while wage growth is helping to offset the effects of rising mortgage rates and keep home prices affordable,» said Robert Dietz, chief economist at the NAHB, in a statement on the Index.