Sentences with phrase «fuel companies see»

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Industries that rely heavily on fuel, such as shipping companies, airlines, vehicle fleet operators and other transportation companies, are seeing rising costs, which eventually will be passed on to consumers.

Cherny says the Redwood fund, which lets investors avoid fossil fuel and firearm companies, has seen a 468 percent increase in customers since the election.

Over a year which has seen large banks halt funding for fossil fuel projects, major institutions divest from oil, gas and coal holdings, and oil companies snap up power and renewables companies in a bid to diversify their asset base, research published today by the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) and the Climate Change Collaboration suggests nervousness over climate risk has shot up in financial circles.

This is a powerful effect and can fuel SaaS companies to huge success, as we saw in New Relic's S - 1.

Ultimately, Modica says he is most proud of seeing the company's growth, and the success of the people who have fueled it.

Flannery sees global warming as a stark morality tale, with fossil - fuel companies as the forces of darkness, engaged in «digging up the dead.»

In the meantime, if you want to see full - size hydrogen - powered vehicles in action, take a trip to Reykjavík or Stuttgart: In 2001 the European Union ordered fuel cells for 30 bus engines from the Canadian company Ballard Power Systems.

I see fossil fuel companies that are investing some of their profits into renewable energy R&D and efficiency.

In what has apparently become something of a tradition on the Croisette, this evening saw a select group of journalists forgo tempting Official Selection screenings to attend instead the starry, champagne - fuelled preview of The Weinstein Company's forthcoming slate.

The importance of the technology is already being seen at a number of large companies such as GE who have made enormous strides in industrial 3D printing by opening a facility to produce the 3D printed fuel nozzles for its advanced LEAP jet engines, and Rolls - Royce announcing they will flight - test what it claims to be the largest 3D printed aerospace component to ever power an aircraft.

The company sees much tougher fuel - efficiency regulations as inevitable.

Though the company has not yet announced further applications of the new 1.4 T engine in its U.S. lineup, we wouldn't be surprised to see this engine make its way into future versions of the Golf in an effort to improve fuel economy and lower costs.

JK: Do you see the oil companies taking over the manufacture and distribution of hydrogen fuel?

It's possible the concept car could be the long - awaited revival of the Volkswagen Microbus (see concepts pictured below), which reports in April suggested could debut on the company's MQB flexible architecture (used for the Golf and Audi A3) with an alternate - fuel powertrain.

Perhaps more interesting than its fuel economy, Honda has also stated that the new motor can be coupled to the company's second generation dual - clutch transmission, the first generation of which can be seen on the Honda VFR1200F.

However, due to a recalculation of how the company calculates fuel economy, the Genesis Coupe sees its EPA city / highway ratings fall by 2 to 3 mpg, leaving some rather dismal fuel - economy figures especially when compared to rivals like the Ford Mustang and Dodge Challenger.

The company plans to put them in its Lincoln MKS, Ford Flex crossover and Taurus and claims that drivers may see up to a 20 - percent increase in fuel efficiency [source: Ford].

The company sees it as a way to fuel growth and attract a younger, different demographic to the three - pointed star.

It's amusing to see the company try to appeal to the practical - minded shopper with touts of fuel efficiency, safety, and rear - seat DVD entertainment systems when, in the end, they're really just a bunch of hooligans.

I just saw a TV ad stating that Nissan is the most fuel efficient full line car company in America.

Kobo saw strong momentum with a 10X increase in new customers from the company's pre-holiday period, and hundreds of thousands of devices were activated each day since Christmas Eve, fuelling the highest eBook download rate in Kobo history — with eBooks being sold to Kobo customers every second of the day.

The worst valuation I saw was Affiliated Managers: This is an acquisition fueled (and over-valued) growth story, like too many US companies.

As a result, the companies that are seeing the most success in engaging today's consumers are lifestyle brands — businesses that are fueled by a passion for a particular lifestyle or identity, allowing them to create authentic, high - quality products for their consumer niche.

This has fuelled digital sales growth among all three companies with EA now seeing 51 % of total revenue generated from digital sales over the past 12 months.

Finally, as I've mentioned in another thread, according to news reports (but the reports I've seen don't seem to put two and two together), just as the auto companies here complain that higher fuel efficiency standards would make them less competitive, the European manufacturers also complain in Europe that higher fuel efficiency standards there would make THEM less competitive.

Let's see if the next President (likely to be Obama) is willing to reduce the estimated $ 37 billion in tax subsidies enjoyed by the fossil fuel companies.

Updated, Oct. 15, 9:29 p.m. The student effort to get universities and colleges to sell off their investments in companies hawking fossil fuels continues, as can be seen in the Twitter item and photo above from Bard College.

Fossil fuel companies have already seen their future markets come under attack from the success of renewable energy and electric vehicle technologies.

Contributions like this from fossil fuel companies to members of Congress are often seen as a political barrier to pursuing clean energy.

Unlike other CSP developers who leverage the heat of the sun as the «fuel» for a power block that then generates electricity to the grid; GlassPoint's enclosed troughs are simply employed in the direct production of steam, focusing on what the company sees as an ignored market for heat.

As the refining of bitumen from tar sands mines creates particularly dirty fuel, Valero and the other oil companies crawling around northern Alberta aren't happy to see California's Global Warming Solutions Act survive Proposition 23.

There have been several studies of this strategy, and the ones I've seen show the world blowing well past 2 - or 3 - degree - C temperature increases, unless the major energy companies leave most of their currently known fossil fuel reserves in the ground along with any new discoveries.

«We so often see that these land conflicts that are fueling threats to the environmentalists are being driven by foreign investors and foreign companies that are frankly taking advantage of weak judicial systems,» says Gordon.

They can see that investing in companies that rely solely or heavily on constantly replenishing reserves of fossil fuels is becoming a very risky decision.

We saw it with smoking and the tobacco companies, it's still there with evolution and some religious sects, and we're seeing it now with climate change and the fossil fuel industry.

We see that Cuccinelli is taking the money from the fossil fuel companies in exchange for persecuting Dr. Michael Mann.

Although solar power is seen as a key way to avoid the use of climate - changing fossil fuels, US solar companies are cutting investments and laying off workers.

On the bright side, you've probably given your new company a boost, so at least you'll profit from from those in the fossil fuel industry who might now be more inclined to use your services, seeing as you are an ally.

On May 29, 2015, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, attended a Big Green - funded League of Conservation Voters event where he called for using RICO against climate skeptics and fossil fuel companies (see the YouTube here), then in a Washington Post op - ed, «The fossil - fuel industry's campaign to mislead the American people,» prompting a backlash asserting that the charge was false, and defending the right to dissent.

«Ken Lay, the head of Enron, a large Texas - based national gas supplier with annual sales of $ 20 billion that is fast becoming a worldwide energy firm, sees his company, and more broadly the natural gas industry, playing a central role in the conversion from a fossil - fuel - based energy economy to a solar / hydrogen energy economy.»

Some of the difference between the oil company scenarios and those from green NGO's and academics is due to fossil fuel lobby assumptions about demand and the role of gas (including shale gas), with CCS also seen as coming on line in a big way.

Matt Pawa's name is unavoidable to miss among the defendant attorneys in the Green Mountain case right above Bookbinder's in this page's court case names collection (the same Pawa seen recently alongside Passacantando in recent plans to persecute fossil fuel companies, but that's another story).

(You may never see a more perfect example of hypocrisy than the climate - change movement's ironclad belief that their vast funding is one hundred percent pure and noble — even when, as Curry notes, it comes from those eeeeeevil fossil fuel companies, who donate enormous sums of money to universities and environmental groups.)

Another consideration, as Rita Sipe, manager of Duke Energy's Nuclear Fleet Communications, in February told POWER, is that used fuel pools and dry cask storage sites, which Duke has located at five of the company's six operating nuclear plants, require operations and maintenance (see sidebar, «The Dry Cask Boom»).

Mark Campanale commented: «Investors no longer want to see regulatory filings from fossil fuel companies that fail to discuss how the low carbon transition might impact their business models.

Back in the 1950's Greens wanted to get rid of the energy companies because they burnt fossil fuels without smokestack filters and powered cars without pollution control which did cause lethal smog and any idiot could see that had to change.

The liberal msm, smelling a good story complete with a convenient villain, evil oil companies and fossil fuels in general, saw an opportunity to increase revenue by helping to promote the oncoming doom lest we give up our evil ways.

Now, if we could only see more of this type of longer - term thinking in more cities and countries worldwide, with partnerships between electric car companies, solar installers, and utility companies that would make it much simpler (and cheaper up - front) to buy and fuel a solar - charged electric vehicle.

Frito - Lay is adding over 1,200 fuel efficient vehicles to their fleet so store deliveries will have a lower carbon footprint.It'd be great to see the company using radically better vehicles - like all electric, or even electric hybrid - but we're still giving them some snaps for the choice to go with Sprinter vehicles, which give them a 50 % better fuel efficiency rate over what they're currently using, as well as a 28 % reduction of CO2 emissions per vehicle.

Call me cynical, but after more than a decade of research and writing into the role big fossil fuel companies have played in sponsoring coordinated attacks on climate science with public relations spin, I remain unconvinced we won't see a resurgence in climate denial.