Sentences with phrase «foreign fuels»

With the largest and fastest - growing auto market in the world, the nation's dependence on foreign fuels can only get worse.

Given this promise — in addition to a February 2012 Department of Energy announcement of a $ 30 million competition aimed at finding ways «to harness our abundant supplies of domestic natural gas for vehicles» — Duoba and his colleague have been ramping up vehicle systems analysis and engine research and testing around CNG as a way to wean ourselves off of foreign fuel sources.

Half of the UK will be opened up to drilling to accomplish for the U.K. what shale oil and shale gas are doing for the U.S. — drastically lowering energy costs while eliminating the country's dependence on foreign fuels.

A boom in oil and gas production, coupled with the sliding cost of renewable energy, offers the United States a chance to curb reliance on foreign fuels and boost economic growth.