Mr Miliband said he wanted to remove the winter
fuel allowance for richer pensioners and would make millions in saving «in local government, in police and elsewhere», but Mr Farage retorted that this would only amount to «peanuts».
Where the DUP has helped to encourage an amendment to May's recent election manifesto is that means testing of the winter
fuel allowance for the elderly has been dropped, and the triple lock on pension rises retained.
Ed Balls told the party conference in Manchester about plans including cutting the winter
fuel allowance for wealthier pensioners, keeping the the benefit cap, child benefit rising by 1 %, bringing back a 50p tax rate, and introducing a mansion tax.
Not exact matches
The charge reflects the direct operating cost of the aircraft, including
fuel, additives and lubricants, an allocable
allowance for airframe, engine and APU maintenance and restoration, crew travel expenses, on board catering, and trip - related landing / hangar / ramp fees and parking costs.
We believe the winter
fuel allowance provides vital support
for pensioners on middle and low incomes to combat
fuel poverty.
Well - off pensioners should face cuts to their winter
fuel allowance to help pay
for «catastrophic» care costs, a former Liberal Democrat minister has said.
You can offer them universal childcare or universal winter
fuel allowance or universal education, but it doesn't mean they will be more willing to subsidise unemployment benefits
for example.
While he slashed stamp duty
for almost every first - time buyer (outside London) he conspicuously avoided provoking older voters; pension tax reliefs remain sacrosanct, as does the winter
fuel allowance and the «triple lock» on pension increases...
«Of course we welcome the extra money
for winter
fuel allowances and the help
for those on pre-paid meters but he could have gone further,» said Mr. Woodley.
It's understood that May agreed to drop plans to undo the pensions triple lock and means test winter
fuel allowance payments in return
for DUP support.
«To encourage
fuel efficient fleets, we will extend the 100 per cent first year capital
allowance for low emission business cars, reduce the CO2 threshold
for the main capital
allowance rates; and increase the percentage list price of company cars subject to tax.
She said the level
for means - testing pensioners» winter
fuel allowance would be decided after consultation, she refused to be drawn on r new social care cap, she did not answer when asked where the money
for the extra # 8bn
for the NHS would come from.
In recent days, Greene has taken aim at Meek
for using a portion of his Congressional
allowance to pay
for a $ 977 - a-month lease on a «flexible -
fuel» GMC Yukon.
That raises the spectre of the winter
fuel allowance, free TV licences and bus passes
for the elderly all being targeted.
And it is now close to inconceivable that May's plans to means test the winter
fuel allowance, to end the triple lock on pension rises and to force all older people to pay
for their social care will now go ahead.
You can now hear
for yourself the arrogant and outrageous way that Harriet Harman continued to peddle scare stories about the Tories scrapping the winter
fuel allowance and Sure Start Centres, when challenged by Ben Gummer on Thursday.
He urged the President to pay more attention to the ailing economy of the country instead of junketing around the world, wasting $ 1 million per foreign trip, saying; «President Buhari has travelled to 24 countries in eight months, and will be spending 16 out of the 29 days in February outside the country, with over $ 500,000 being spent on estacode while the Presidential Air Fleet, which includes
fueling of the planes and
allowances for crew members is said to be in the range of $ 500,000.
For both Mr Cameron and Mr Miliband, it has always been a risk too far to start talking about taking
fuel allowances and bus passes away from free - voting older people.
The media coverage of George Osborne's second budget as Chancellor has largely, and understandably, been focused on the 1p cut in
fuel duty to help motorists, the raising of the personal
allowance for Income Tax, and the creation of 21 new Enterprise Zones to boost jobs.
«What the government can do, in the short term, is some of the things we have been doing - like cutting income tax
for 25 million taxpayers by increasing the tax free personal
allowances, keeping mortgage rates low and keeping
fuel prices down by taking 20p a litre off (of) what Labour were planning.»
Bakewell was the tsar
for the elderly in the last Labour government and will now become a working peer, even though her support
for a means - tested winter
fuel allowance is at odds with Miliband's stated commitment to universalism.
At a time when public spending is to be cut, how vital is it to retain universal welfare benefits, such as child benefit, winter
fuel allowances and free bus passes
for the over 60s?
The conclusions are based on a model accounting
for fuel prices, GHG
allowances and the payback period of technologies such as combined heat and power and carbon capture and storage.
Whether it's physical shipments of the fossil
fuel or the buying and selling of the permits
for the pollution that burning it causes — Evolution's first trade was a sulfur dioxide
allowance between Enron and Dynegy in February of 2000 — the brokerage makes its living on coal.
--
For a covered entity described in section 700 (13)(C), 1 emission allowance for each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent of fossil fuel - based carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, or any other fluorinated gas that is a greenhouse gas (except for nitrogen trifluoride), or any combination thereof, produced or imported by such covered entity during the previous calendar year for sale or distribution in interstate commer
For a covered entity described in section 700 (13)(C), 1 emission
allowance for each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent of fossil fuel - based carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, or any other fluorinated gas that is a greenhouse gas (except for nitrogen trifluoride), or any combination thereof, produced or imported by such covered entity during the previous calendar year for sale or distribution in interstate commer
for each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent of fossil
fuel - based carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, or any other fluorinated gas that is a greenhouse gas (except
for nitrogen trifluoride), or any combination thereof, produced or imported by such covered entity during the previous calendar year for sale or distribution in interstate commer
for nitrogen trifluoride), or any combination thereof, produced or imported by such covered entity during the previous calendar year
for sale or distribution in interstate commer
for sale or distribution in interstate commerce.
$ 8 billion) over first ten years
for deficit reductionObeys PAYGO; Starting in 2026, 25 % of auction revenues
for deficit reductionFuels and TransportationIncrease biofuels to 60 million gallons by 2030, low - carbon
fuel standard of 10 % by 2010, 1 million plug» in hybrid cars by 2025, raise
fuel economy standards, smart growth funding, end oil subsidies, promote natural gas drilling, enhanced oil recoverySmart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, raise
fuel economy standards $ 7 billion a year
for smart growth funding, plug - in hybrids, natural gas vehicles, raise
fuel economy standards; offshore drilling with revenue sharing and oil spill veto, natural gas fracking disclosureCost ContainmentInternational offsetsOffset pool, banking and borrowing flexibility, soft price collar using permit reserve auction at $ 28 per ton going to 60 % above three - year - average market price» Hard» price collar between $ 12 and $ 25 per ton, floor increases at 3 % + CPI, ceiling at 5 % + CPI, plus permit reserve auction, offsets like W - MClean Air Act And StatesNot discussedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade suspended until 2017, EPA to set stationary source performance standards in 2016, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedOnly polluters above 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year, regional cap and trade pre-empted, establishes coal - fired plant performance standards, some Clean Air Act provisions excludedInternational CompetitivenessTax incentives
for domestic auto industryFree
allowances for trade - exposed industries, 2020 carbon tariff on importsCarbon tariff on importsReferences: Barack Obama, 2007; Barack Obama, 8/3/08; Pew Center, 6/26/09; leaked drafts of American Power Act, 5/11/10.
«(B) the nonemissive use, in 2012 or later, of petroleum - based or coal - based liquid or gaseous
fuel, petroleum coke, natural gas liquid, or natural gas as a feedstock, if
allowances or offset credits were retired
for the greenhouse gases that would have been emitted from their combustion; and
-- In directing the provision of emission
allowances under this subsection during the years 2012 through 2017, the Secretary shall give preference to applications
for projects that save the maximum number of gallons of
fuel.
-- Where carbon dioxide (or another greenhouse gas) generated by a covered entity is used as an input in the production of algae - based
fuels, the Administrator shall ensure that emission
allowances are required to be held either
for the carbon dioxide generated by a covered entity that is used to grow the algae or
for the portion of the carbon dioxide emitted from combustion of the
fuel produced from such algae that is attributable to carbon dioxide generated by a covered entity, but not
for both.
Argonne took account of this growth, made
allowance for it, and determined to what size the metal
fuel would expand to.
The Clarity
Fuel Cell is competitively lease priced at $ 369 per month for 36 months with $ 2,868 due at signingi with California customers eligible for a $ 5,000 rebate.iiThe lease terms include an attractive mileage allowance of 20,000 miles per year, up to $ 15,000 of hydrogen fuel, up to 21 days of access to a luxury vehicle from Avis while in California, iii 24/7 roadside assistance, and eligibility for Californias Clean Air Vehicle Stickers, allowing single occupant HOV access.2 In addition, the Clarity Fuel Cell has the highest EPA driving range rating of any zero - emission light - duty vehicle in America, including fuel cell and battery electric vehicles, with a 366 - mile range rating and fuel economy rating of 68 combined MPGe (miles per gallon of gasoline - equivale
Fuel Cell is competitively lease priced at $ 369 per month
for 36 months with $ 2,868 due at signingi with California customers eligible
for a $ 5,000 rebate.iiThe lease terms include an attractive mileage
allowance of 20,000 miles per year, up to $ 15,000 of hydrogen
fuel, up to 21 days of access to a luxury vehicle from Avis while in California, iii 24/7 roadside assistance, and eligibility for Californias Clean Air Vehicle Stickers, allowing single occupant HOV access.2 In addition, the Clarity Fuel Cell has the highest EPA driving range rating of any zero - emission light - duty vehicle in America, including fuel cell and battery electric vehicles, with a 366 - mile range rating and fuel economy rating of 68 combined MPGe (miles per gallon of gasoline - equivale
fuel, up to 21 days of access to a luxury vehicle from Avis while in California, iii 24/7 roadside assistance, and eligibility
for Californias Clean Air Vehicle Stickers, allowing single occupant HOV access.2 In addition, the Clarity
Fuel Cell has the highest EPA driving range rating of any zero - emission light - duty vehicle in America, including fuel cell and battery electric vehicles, with a 366 - mile range rating and fuel economy rating of 68 combined MPGe (miles per gallon of gasoline - equivale
Fuel Cell has the highest EPA driving range rating of any zero - emission light - duty vehicle in America, including
fuel cell and battery electric vehicles, with a 366 - mile range rating and fuel economy rating of 68 combined MPGe (miles per gallon of gasoline - equivale
fuel cell and battery electric vehicles, with a 366 - mile range rating and
fuel economy rating of 68 combined MPGe (miles per gallon of gasoline - equivale
fuel economy rating of 68 combined MPGe (miles per gallon of gasoline - equivalent).
The lease terms include an attractive mileage
allowance of 20,000 miles per year, up to $ 15,000 of hydrogen
fuel, up to 21 days of an Avis Luxury Rental in California, 24/7 roadside assistance, and eligibility
for California «White Sticker» single occupant HOV access.
This certified vehicle also provides Roadside Assistance * which includes reimbursement s of $ 100 towing, $ 75 Destination
allowance, $ 500 breakdown travel expense and $ 30 / day rental car
for up to 5days in addition to complimentary 24hr / 7day toll free call center
for battery jump starts, flat tire changes, lockouts or
fuel delivery.
Those looking
for a high - mileage vehicle
for work or getting the kids to school will find Neon allows you to stretch the weekly
fuel allowance.
This certified vehicle also provides Roadside Assistance through AAA * which includes reimbursement of $ 100 towing, $ 75 destination
allowance, $ 500 breakdown travel expense and $ 45 / day rental car
for up to 5 days in addition to complimentary 24hr / 7day toll free call center
for battery jump starts, flat tire changes, lockouts or
fuel delivery.
This Certified vehicle also provides Roadside Assistance through AAA * which includes reimbursement of $ 100 towing, $ 75 destination
allowance, $ 500 breakdown travel expense and $ 45 / day rental car
for up to 5 days in addition to Complimentary 24hr / 7day toll free call center
for battery jump starts, flat tire changes, lockouts or
fuel delivery.
Excluded: Flight tickets, Travel and repatriation insurance, Airport taxes, Port and park fees (between USD 90 and 300 depending on destination), Dive rental equipment (full set USD 30 per day), Nitrox (USD 8 per fill or USD 12 per day), Dive courses and certification such as Nitrox and Advanced, Alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, spirits and cocktails, Use of satellite telephone, Internet connection
for browsing & data
allowance, Massages,
Fuel surcharges, Souvenirs on board, Tips
Excluded: Flight tickets / Travel, dive and repatriation insurance / Visas and fees / Airport taxes and extra baggage fees / Airport to hotel transfers / Port, Ranger and Marine Park fees (Raja Ampat: $ 180 p.p per trip, Komodo $ 150 p.p per trip, Wakatobi: $ 30 p.p.p.d) / Rangers fees (on - land activity) / Dive rental equipment / Nitrox - prices USD per person $ 25 per day (up to 4 tanks) payable onboard
for all charters / Dive courses and certification, (price on application) / Alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, spirits / Soft Drinks and package snacks /
Fuel surcharges ** (may fluctuate with markets, you may be asked to pay an extra fuel allowance up to 60 days prior to departure, of no more than $ 100 USD per person) / Gratuities (preferred in local currency) / La Galigo Merchan
Fuel surcharges ** (may fluctuate with markets, you may be asked to pay an extra
fuel allowance up to 60 days prior to departure, of no more than $ 100 USD per person) / Gratuities (preferred in local currency) / La Galigo Merchan
fuel allowance up to 60 days prior to departure, of no more than $ 100 USD per person) / Gratuities (preferred in local currency) / La Galigo Merchandise
The price of
allowances is determined by supply and demand and reflects fundamental factors like economic growth,
fuel prices, rainfall and wind (availability of renewable energy) and temperature (demand
for heating and cooling) etc..
Each spreadsheet lists the model estimates of capacity additions (what electric generating capacity the model and what the states tell the model to include because of regulations); generation (how much the existing and projected units will produce); prices (including firm power prices, energy prices, capacity prices,
allowance prices, natural gas prices, and renewable energy credit prices); total CO2 emissions;
fuel consumption
for different
fuel types; and transmission flows into and out of the RGGI power grids.
And you've made no
allowance for learning rates and the potential
for nuclear power to reduce costs (e.g. from a factor of 100 improvement in
fuel efficiency).
Operators of fossil
fuel plants with at least 25 megawatts in capacity hold «carbon
allowances»
for every ton of CO2 emissions their plants give off.
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, 12 California, 7, 68, 102, 128, 169 - 170, 187, 196, 232 - 234, 245 California Energy Commission, 232 Cambridge Media Environment Programme (CMEP), 167 - 168 Cambridge University, 102 Cameron, David, 11, 24, 218 Cameroon, 25 Campbell, Philip, 165 Canada, 22, 32, 64, 111, 115, 130, 134, 137, 156 - 157, 166, 169, 177, 211, 222, 224 - 226, 230, 236, 243 Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS), 15 Cap - and - trade, 20, 28, 40 - 41, 44, 170, 175
allowances (permits), 41 - 42, 176, 243 Capitalism, 34 - 35, 45 Capps, Lois, 135 Car (see vehicle) Carbon, 98, 130 Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), 192 Carbon Capture and Storage Association, 164 Carbon credits (offsets), 28 - 29, 42 - 43, 45 Carbon Cycle, 80 - 82 Carbon dioxide (CO2), 9, 18, 23, 49 - 51, 53, 55, 66 - 67, 72 - 89, 91, 98 - 99, 110, 112, 115, 118, 128 - 132, 137, 139, 141 - 144, 152, 240 emissions, 12, 18 - 25, 28 - 30, 32 - 33, 36 - 38, 41 - 44, 47, 49, 53, 55, 71 - 72, 74, 77 - 78, 81 - 82, 108 - 109, 115, 132, 139, 169, 186, 199 - 201, 203 - 204, 209 - 211, 214, 217, 219, 224, 230 - 231, 238, 241, 243 - 244 Carbon Dioxide Analysis Center, 19 Carbon Expo, 42 Carbon, footprint, 3, 13, 29, 35, 41, 45, 110, 132 tax, 20, 44, 170 trading, 13, 20, 40, 43, 44, 176, 182 Carbon monoxide (CO), 120 Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC), 44 Carlin, George, 17 Carter, Bob, 63 Carter, Jimmy, 186, 188 Cato Institute, 179 CBS, 141, 146 Center
for Disease Control, 174 Center
for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, 62, 139 Centre
for Policy Studies, 219 CERN (European Organization
for Nuclear Research), 96 Chavez, Hugo, 34 Chicago Tribune, 146 China, 29, 32 - 33, 60 - 62, 120, 169, 176, 187 - 188, 211, 216, 225 - 226, 242 - 243 China's National Population and Planning Commission, 33 Chinese Academy of Sciences, 60 Chirac, Jacques, 36 Chlorofluorocarbons, 42 - 43, 50 Choi, Yong - Sang, 88 Christy, John, 105 Churchill, Winston, 214, 220 Chu, Steven, 187 Citibank (Citigroup), 40, 176 Clean Air Act, 85, 128 - 129 Clean Development Mechanism, 42 Climate Action Partnership, 14 Climate alarm, 4, 13, 21, 32, 35, 38, 56, 102 - 103, 115 - 117, 120, 137, 156, 168, 173, 182 Climate Audit, 66 Climate change, adaptation, 39, 110, 112 mitigation, 16, 39, 110 Climate Change and the Failure of Democracy, 34 Climate Change: Picturing the Science, 121 Climate Change Reconsidered, 242 Climate conference, 38 Cancun, 18, 29, 36 - 37, 124 - 125, 242 Copenhagen, 33, 36, 109, 125, 156, 158, 175, 241 - 242 Durban, 13, 36 - 37, 166, 242 - 243 Climategate, 2, 67, 152, 158 - 170, 180, 182, 242 Climate Protection Agreement, 12 Climate Research Unit (CRU), 48, 67, 120, 147, 152 - 153, 158 - 160, 162 - 163, 165 - 167, 169 Climate Science Register, 142 Climatism, definition, 2, 7 Clinton, Bill, 176, 178 Clinton Global Initiative, 176 CLOUD project, 96 Club of Rome, 21, 186 CO2Science, 59, 61 - 62, 66, 131 Coal, 19 - 20, 39 - 41, 80, 126, 128 - 129, 175, 185 - 186, 188 - 190, 192 - 196, 199 - 201, 209, 214, 217, 219, 222, 229 Coase, Ronald, 145 Coca - Cola, 138 Cogley, Graham, 156 Cohen, David, 220 Colorado State University, 117, 181 Columbia University, 7 Columbus, Christopher, 58 Computer models, 16, 51 - 53, 56, 67, 72, 74,77 - 79, 82, 87, 89 - 91, 94, 105, 110 - 111, 120, 124, 138 - 140, 168, 171,173, 181, 238, 240, 246 Conference on the Changing Atmosphere, 15 Consensus, scientific, 12 Copenhagen Business School, 134 Coral, 53 Corporate Average
Fuel Economy, 22 - 23 Cosmic Rays, 72, 93 - 99, 180 Credit Suisse, 176 Crow, Cheryl, 30 Crowley, Tom, 167 Cuadrilla Resources, 224 - 225 Curry, Judith, 164, 167 Cycles, natural, 3, 16, 57, 62 - 63, 66 - 69, 72, 80, 99, 103, 138, 238, 240 Milankovich, 62, 67, 80 Cyprus, 134 Czech Republic, 12, 37
-- Where carbon dioxide (or another greenhouse gas) generated by a covered entity is used as an input in the production of algae - based
fuels, the Administrator shall ensure that emission
allowances are required to be held either
for the carbon dioxide generated by a covered entity that is used to grow the algae or
for the portion of the carbon dioxide emitted from combustion of the
fuel produced from such algae that is attributable to carbon dioxide generated by a covered entity, but not
for both.
The evolving Kerry - Graham - Lieberman legislation has a cap - and - trade system at its heart
for the electricity - generation sector, with other sectors to be phased in later (and it employs another market - based approach, a series of
fuel taxes
for the transportation sector linked to the market price
for allowances).
The cost / benefit analysis of actions taken to limit CO2 levels depends on the discount rate used and
allowances made, if any,
for the positive future positive economic effects of CO2 production on agriculture and of fossil
fuel based energy production.
Going beyond what is seen as feasible through
fuel switching and a smooth integration of new renewable capacity is another matter, especially if it means taking away a big part of the revenue windfall the utilities have mentally already booked
for those free
allowances (since many less would be available to them).
* Only # 115
fuel costs
for 12,000 miles driving (# 0.96 pence
for a full charge) * Low servicing costs and downtime - only approximately 4 working parts compared to over 300 in a typical internal combustion engine * Exempt from road tax (saving approx # 300 per annum) * First year capital
allowances for fleet vehicles * Zero benefit - in - kind company car tax * Lower rate of VAT
for domestic electricity * Exempt from congestion charge (saving up to # 2,000 per annum) * Free parking in many London boroughs and cities such as Milton Keynes * Expected high residual values due to high demand outstripping supply
for several years to come
For the largest investor - and state - owned producers allowable extraction varies dependent on the approach to calculate burnable fossil
fuel allowance.
This is especially true of the fossil
fuel industry, whose subsidies include such things as a depletion
allowance for oil pumping in the United States.