Sentences with phrase «foreign oil supplies»

One of them, commissioned by the Brookings Institute, suggests that adoption of this insurance model across the country could reduce driving by up to 8 % — more than a $ 1 - a-gallon gasoline tax, which would go a long way toward reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil supplies.

Sure, tax cuts, grants and loans are fairly easy to account for, but what about military deployments to secure foreign oil supplies, or infrastructure costs like roads and transmission lines, or the seemingly endless stream of external costs linked to carbon emissions, toxic air and water pollutants, higher health care costs and missed work days?

Nine years ago, U.S. President George W. Bush passed the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) with the goal of lessening America's dependence on foreign oil supplies and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Although these natural resources offer a clean, renewable alternative to fossil fuels and promise decreased dependency on foreign oil supplies, they are not without their own drawbacks.

That translates into billions more dollars invested in creating jobs in America instead of paying foreign oil suppliers — including Canada.

Every day, we just hand over a billion dollars to foreign oil suppliers.

Not exact matches

Negative supply shocks to the economy, such as a foreign oil embargo, will reduce the production or supply of real goods and services.

The arrests, by national intelligence agents, marked the first at a Western oil firm in Venezuela and represent a dramatic escalation of growing tensions between PDVSA and foreign companies over control of supply contracts.

The arrests, by national intelligence agents, marked the first at a Western oil firm in Venezuela and represent a dramatic escalation of growing tensions between PDVSA and foreign companies over control of supply contracts, the sources told Reuters.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

Canada is the biggest U.S. supplier of foreign oil, and it buys some U.S. crude and sells it gasoline, natural gas and electricity.

Canada is now the 6th largest oil producer in the world and the largest foreign supplier of oil to the USA.

When you add in refined products and other petroleum liquids, Canadian exports soared past 4.1 million barrels a day, a total that is higher than the next seven U.S. suppliers combined, and nearly four times more than Saudi Arabia, the U.S.'s second largest source of foreign oil.

Among the factors that could cause actual results and outcomes to differ materially from those contained in such forward - looking statements are the following: macro-economic conditions (including fluctuations in housing prices, oil markets, jobless rates and other indicators), credit market changes and constraints, foreign currency fluctuation, the company's ability to manage its property portfolio, the impact of labor markets, failure to effectively manage costs or achieve anticipated expense and cost reductions, and disruptions in our supply chain or information technology systems.

better yet — he's the type of guy to extort money from a congregation that doesn't understand global economics, fiat currency, OPEC, oil production, the supply chain, the exploration of oil reserves or how foreign / state run companies keep supply low to drive up demand which they then use the proceeds to seed their Islamic theocracies which in turn oppress woman and preach anti-American propaganda.

Italy is the seventh - largest foreign supplier to the United States and was the country's first international supplier of wine, extra virgin olive oil, cheese, pasta and mineral water.

Vanguard exclusively gathered that the blacklisting of Nigerian oil marketers by the foreign suppliers followed the challenges faced by marketers to access foreign exchange due to stringent rules by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, on foreign exchange transactions.

Marketers disclosed that they owe their foreign suppliers in excess of $ 1.29 billion, even as the marketers were paid only N413 billion in December 2015 for oil subsidies.

Even the Nigerian government had to postpone its $ 1billion Eurobond which was slated for 2016 to 2017 when a better investment environment had begun to emerge with rising oil prices, larger foreign reserves, a new economic policy document and CBN policy refinements which have significantly increased the supply of foreign currency and narrowed the gap between the various exchange rates.»

A new report from the Council on Foreign Relations says no, but also that they won't wean the U.S. off of other oil supplies

RE # 37, GW actions have many many other immediate & future benefits: they prevent / reduce many other environmental harms (local air pollution, acid rain, ground & water pollution, etc.), they are good for the health (e.g., cycling & walking), they reduce crime (cycling, walking), they reduce our implication in foreign conflicts & tax money to protect oil supplies, they save money without lowering productivity (even increasing it), they save businesses from folding & households from going into hock.

Andy, I still feel the same way, but my rationale for allowing drilling wasn't (isn't) the same as McCain and others, who support it to increase oil supplies and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

The U.S. must transition within the next 20 years to a situation wherein it no longer buys foreign oil and does not come into conflict over international supplies.

Many major, international oil companyies have $ 100 billion plans in place to triple this exported amount of tar sands to the U. S. in a decade to fuel the U. S. appetite for a more secure supply of foreign oil, than from elsewhere in this troubled world.

But that link doesn't touch on the indirect subsidies known as the Gulf War I and II, the securing of the seas for oil transport, and the state department which spends a lot of its time placating foreign governments to insure a reliable supply of oil flows in our direction.

More Americans also mention crude oil prices, the shortage of oil supplies, and U.S. dependency on foreign oil» [10].

«We don't have much worry about Japan's oil supplies,» Tanaka said after a meeting with Norway's foreign minister.

It is significant that, more than twenty years later: — all but one of these strategic recommendations have been successfully implemented, and — Canada is now the 6th largest oil producer in the world, and the largest foreign supplier of oil to the USA.

Contrary to what most people «perceive», OPEC (not Canada) is the largest supplier of foreign oil to the U.S..

Bunker fuels: Fuel supplied to ships and aircraft, both domestic and foreign, consisting primarily of residual and distillate fuel oil for ships and kerosene - based jet fuel for aircraft.

Supply, cost, environmental consequences - these are among the central features of debate over energy policy in the U.S. Those who want to open up more areas to drilling - on land and offshore - and expand the use of fracking to extract natural gas from deep underground argue that we must reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

The United States will thus be dependent on foreign suppliers for renewable energy, just as we rely on foreign countries for oil and uranium.

About foreign interests, The Northern Gateway pipeline is being designed to supply «ethical» crude oil to china at a bargain price which Canada will buy back as finished product for top dollar.

The idea is, if we allow oil and gas corporations to exploit our land and water to extract fossil fuels, it will benefit the average citizen by lowering energy prices and reducing dependence of «foreign» energy supplies.

Foreign suppliers contribute 98 percent of oil used, 90 percent of gas, and 90 percent of hard coal.

Nuclear power offered the potential for an almost infinite fuel supply with no pollution or dependence on foreign oil.

Reliance on foreign oil imports increasingly puts the state's fuel supply at risk, not only because of security and reliability concerns, but also because the marine ports are not expanding to meet expected growth in demand.

Increases in ethanol production since 2007 have made little, or no, contribution to U.S. energy supplies, or dependence on foreign crude oil.

If you're at all informed about the historical interaction of US foreign policy it's no doubt occurred to you that at least one of the factors at play in the inconsistent national response to the various uprisings and full fledged revolutions continuing in the the Middle East and North Africa is oil, which nation's have it, which don't, and continuing to secure ample supplies of it.