Sentences with phrase «existing fuel duty»

Allow Cornwall to create a Better Roads Fund funded by the localisation of 2p in every litre from existing fuel duty — will generate approximately # 7.5 million a year that would be used to maintain our rural roads.

The LGA wants the Government to give councils two pence per litre of existing fuel duty to spend on local roads maintenance.

To reverse the trend the LGA is calling for the Government to invest 2p per litre of existing fuel duty in road maintenance.

«Reallocating a few pence from existing fuel duty might prove an equitable way of turning the tide, as could previous calls for Vehicle Excise Duty to be redirected to local roads from 2021.»

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Essentially, in this time period, every existing building will either be retrofit to higher efficiency standards or replaced, 60 percent of light - duty vehicles will use electricity, so that the average fuel economy will be roughly 70 miles per gallon.

According to the authors, the U.S.'s spare nighttime electricity capacity could power a large fleet of PHEVs; since they require about 10 hours of nightly charging, Joe Sullivan of the Argonne National Laboratory, one of the authors, nighttime electricity could allow PHEVs to replace up to 34 % of today's light - duty fleet - and only consume 13 % of the fuel used nationally for electricity generation in the process.Michael Kintner - Meyer of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - in a separate study - found that 43 % of the fleet could be replaced by PHEVs with existing nighttime capacity.