Sentences with phrase «expensive oil imports»

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Its ancient electric grid was in disrepair, requiring expensive shipments of imported oil to operate.

It's become a synonym for lazy, expensive policies that don't cut oil imports or reduce climate change.

Toss in scale economies, and the result will be lower costs, greater energy security and an increased state economic multiplier effect as less money drains offshore to pay for expensive and dirty imported coal and oil.

For the USA it is critical to replace the millions of barrels of expensive imported crude oil used primarily for transportation with local alternates, i, e, more US oil, shale oil or gas, biofuels (NOT corn!)

Beyond being adequate to meet Japan's current electricity needs many times over, geothermal and wind energy could also displace much of the expensive imported oil now used in transportation.

Mike Mason, Chairman, Tropical Power says, «Through the Gorge Farm Energy Park we aim to displace expensive and imported generation fuels — like diesel and heavy fuel oil — from Kenya's distributed power mix.

Not only are nuclear plants much more expensive than anticipated, but their primary competitor is no longer dirty coal or imported oil but instead clean, inexpensive domestic natural gas.

You say, «At the same time, we can use energy much more efficiently than we do, reducing the need to rely on expensive imported oil...»

The paper also proposes a strategy to raise the necessary revenue through increases in specific sources of revenues, including a fee on imported oil, elimination of antiquated and expensive oil tax breaks, and modest increases to a limited number of infrastructure user fees.