Sentences with phrase «fuel companies going»

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Costa Rica recently made headlines when its state - run utility company said it had gone a full 76 days without using fossil fuels, beating their own record of 75 days last March.

But, to maintain its position, the company is going to have to look farther afield to fuel growth.

If you're examining a freight company, the cost of fuel is going to matter.

Shopify's IPO marks a significant stage in the growth of the business and hopefully fuels the aspirations of other promising private tech companies: to go beyond launching and selling their companies early on in the development process, and rather lead with the vision to build big and for the long term.

But as the company's fleet and revenues grew, it went on a debt - fueled buying binge around the globe.

The remaining funds went towards two companies aimed at reducing humanity's dependence on fossil fuels and so counteracting the problem of climate change: Tesla Motors ($ 70m), a luxury electric car manufacturer that has since expanded to provide energy to homes and businesses through battery technology; and SolarCity ($ 10m) which seeks to offer a cleaner and more affordable energy solution.

Investors want a better explanation about how the company is going to plug the earnings gap from losing its long - term fuel alliance with Woolworths.

So multi million dollar e-hailing companies had to let go of that, and start using an IRGC backed navigation app, which fails to work stably and their drivers end up using more fuel and time and energy doing their work.

Tony Woodley, Unite the union joint general secretary, said the Chancellor had gone some way to tackling the issues of fuel poverty but he had missed an opportunity to levy a windfall tax on the excess energy company profits.

«One of the myths that the the fossil fuel companies like to promulgate is this is going to be a disaster for our economy,» Nixon said.

Unlike Governor Cuomo, they have both gone out of their way to take positive steps on climate change; A.G. Schneiderman by issuing a report detailing the need to address climate change at the state level, Comptroller DiNapoli by effectively pressing the world's largest fossil fuel companies to disclose how their business plans fare in a low - carbon future.»

«We're not going to be intimidated by people who take a lot of money from fossil fuel companies and then do their bidding,» Schneiderman said.

During the Cold War, private companies such as Tronox's former parent company, Kerr - McGee Corp., operated uranium mines under U.S. government contracts, removing four million tons of ore that went into making nuclear weapons and fuel.

The six - day fuel loading operation began last week after the company received permission to go ahead from the government's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate.

In addition to offering vehicles powered by a number of alternatives (fuel, battery or both), car companies are going to win customers in the future based on the networked services they offer drivers and passengers and how well these services are delivered, says Nancy Gioia, Ford Motor Co.'s director of Sustainable Mobility Technologies and Hybrid Vehicle Programs.

The other way of levelling the playing field would be to remove tax from train company fuel, and that's not going to happen.

Recapturing carbon from the atmosphere is one thing, but a Canadian company wants to go one step further by turning that carbon into fuel.

Clearly, with the Jewish matchmaker dating sites being so important to Spark Network's profit margin, the company is going to concentrate on these sites to help fuel its recovery.

And I was alao thinking If I choose to go into IT I can own my own company then fuel my passion for cars and racing.

But when the company is shooting for the middle of the market, where the sheeple graze from brand to brand based on price, fuel economy, or the latest quality scores, it's going to hurt that Volkswagen can't lay claim to any of that frivolity.

MPG and running costs > Typically for a car aimed at company car buyers, MPG and CO2 ratings are very good, with the most frugal 2.0 TDi ultra only producing 106g / km, but the faster you want to go, the bigger the tax and fuel bills.

The 4 Series Convertible is not a cheap car — and if you go for one of the petrol versions, you're going to pay a particularly high price in fuel and company car tax costs.

The company claims that power boost is not going to affect its fuel - friendly nature.

But unlike the company's purely fossil fueled performance cars — M4, M5 et al — which could speed well past 156 miles per hour were they not electronically limited, the i8 would struggle to go faster even if the safety nanny was removed.

Tightening fuel economy standards will put electricity in most car companies» tool boxes going forward, but it also has to come with a great driving experience if customers are going to get on board.

The company is going to give it a purposeful appearance with its unique hood, black tail lamp guards, rock rails, bumpers and fuel filler door.

We already knew that the Veloster Turbo is going to be fitted with a 1.6 - litre unit featuring a twin - scroll turbocharger and a direct fuel injection system, due to the fact that the South Korean company has published some details on this matter a while ago.

However, much of that growth was fueled by getting the dividend up to speed, as the company was going from no dividend to paying out a large chunk of its profit via that dividend.

Won't the fuel delivery company go bankrupt if they have to sell the oil so «cheap».

The current focus of the war on fossil fuels is the fight to stop the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline being developed by Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics in the mid-western U.S. Protesters have gathered across the country to make their voices heard, and they're hitting the companies behind the pipeline where it hurts — in the pocketbook — by going after the 38 banks providing the financing.

Big retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy, and GameStop have listed it as out of stock for months, which fueled speculation that the company was going to discontinue it.

Of course, this was all done as a way of audiovisual documentation, as this entire situation is going to be the bias of an upcoming documentary, which is is to be a partnership between Fuel Industries, a Canadian based motion picture company, Lightbox, and Microsoft via their Xbox Entertainment Studios, which is the division that is slated to bring original television - like content to both the Xbox One and Xbox 360 platforms.

In it, he called for international intervention before the Tokyo Electric Power Company began to move fuel rods from the spent fuel pool for reactor unit 4 and urged the four climate scientists who recently called for a big push to advance safer nuclear power plant designs to go to the site.

Although the dominant type of energy storage in today's electric cars is lithium - ion batteries, not every car company is going in that direction, as Toyota demonstrates with its continued push for a different technology — hydrogen fuel cells.

When asked about the decision to build two new models at a plant about to close, a spokesperson for the company responded thusly: «Why not build them there, if we've got these large vehicles and they're going to get better fuel economy by adding a hybrid?»

In response to escalating fuel costs, many companies are now considering going to a four - day work week.

Very good piece — but when dealing with the kind of massive public relations campaign being run by the last holdouts (fossil fuel investors, coal companies, and fossil fuel - dependent nation - states), it really is unwise to go along with their «list of questions.»

Mark Campanale, Carbon Tracker Founder and Executive Director, said: «These disclosure principles go to the very core of the energy transition that is underway — they show investors and markets the extent to which individual fossil fuel companies may be at risk, as well as management's plans for addressing the looming issue.

So, with friends like that and an unmistakably pro-global warming position, why on Earth would Avi Garbow go to work for one of the sworn enemies of enviro - activists, a planet - wrecking fossil fuel company?

McGinnes, though he profited from ownership of both the power company and one of the trucking companies that transported fuel to the island, finally agreed that the diesel generators had to go.

C. Technically, it is still possible to solve the climate problem, but there are two essential requirements: (1) a simple across - the - board (all fossil fuels) rising carbon fee [2] collected from fossil fuel companies at the domestic source (mine or port of entry), not a carbon price «scheme,» and the money must go to the public, not to government coffers, otherwise the public will not allow the fee to rise as needed for phase - over to clean energy, (2) honest government support for, rather than strangulation of, RD&D (research, development and demonstration) of clean energy technologies, including advanced generation, safe nuclear power.

There's a big PR campaign going on here, though — mining & fossil fuel companies and some conservative business groups are running ads in all the major papers alleging it'll destroy the economy, drive up the cost of everything, and not make any difference globally.

The basic facts of climate change are grim: 80 % of fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground for us to stay below 2 °C * of warming and fossil fuel companies aren't going to do that without a fight.

Going a step further, New York City launched a lawsuit against the top fossil fuel companies.

The European energy company developing a wind farm 10 miles off Atlantic City is exiting the fossil - fuels business and going all - in on sustainable energy.

All those who make use of goods and services that involve the use of fossil fuels are helping to keep the fossil fuel companies in business Without their money the fossil fuel companies would go out of business.

Or going further to full divestment from the most polluting fossil fuel extraction companies.

As a result, «fuel poverty» has become a big problem for low income families; the government has to subsidize German industry so that it does not move abroad; and German companies now invest much more abroad than in Germany, - The German government is struggling with these problems, the country is going downhill very fast, but Angela Merkel continues to try and cure the country with more aspirins.

These companies will not go quietly; already they are maneuvering to lock customers into fossil fuels.

We have an agreement between every country in the world to have a dramatic shift away from the use of fossil fuels, and yet still fossil fuel companies dominate our stock exchanges, and on the basis that they're going to utilise all of the assets, all of those oil and gas reserves, which we absolutely can't burn.