Sentences with phrase «fuel costs already»

We return to the questions posed earlier: with fuel costs already their single largest expense, why should fuel price increases spur changes in shipping and aviation designs, equipment and practices?

Moreover, shipping fuel costs already comprise about half of operating costs, and efficiency standards for new large ships took effect last year.

Not exact matches

As jet fuel costs rise in accordance with oil prices — and already fuel has overtaken labour as airlines» biggest expense — air travel could risk becoming unaffordable for the average person.

Fuelled by a low peso and cheap labour costs, Mexico's booming manufacturing industry has already overtaken Canada's in terms of the dollar value of exports to the U.S. Indeed, Canada is contending with more than just low oil prices.

Transportation fuel costs have already fallen sharply in concert with the drop in crude prices: prices for jet fuel, for instance, which represents 26 percent of airlines» costs, fell by 52 percent between August 2014 and mid-January 2015.

Cheap natural gas has been an important source of fuel for the oilsands, but most of Canada already had abundant hydro - electrical endowments to power homes and businesses at relatively low cost, so shale hasn't been much of a revolution over here (pdf).

With the first close of the $ 30 - million goal already secured solely from private investors, the Fund is pleased to announce its first two investments: GreenMantra, which has developed a proprietary technology platform to convert plastics into chemicals and other fuels; and Smart Energy Instruments (SEI), which is on track to create low - cost energy sensors that form the backbone of a smarter grid by providing real - time, highly granular data measurements.

Food is to double in cost by the end of this year and fuel oil is already more than a burden that most of us take until the end of summer to pay off to only start again.

We are already experiencing problems because of a practice called «slow steaming» where the container ships slow down to save on fuel costs.

Ms Cooper said: «HIPs and EPCs are already helping consumers to save hundreds of pounds off their fuel bills and are cutting search costs too.

Solar is already competitive with conventional energy in many parts of Germany and will keep getting cheaper, while conventional fossil fuels are more likely to increase in production costs, Channell said.

But it's hard to get excited about biofuels when they already have such a bad rep.. The use of corn and sugar in fuels has driven up the cost of food by a whopping 75 percent worldwide, according to a recent report by the World Bank.

The auto industry has already brought the cost of fuel - cell technology down dramatically over the last two decades.

It is likely to increase the already hefty cost of building reactors and increase the complaints of regulators and nearby communities that are already upset at the storage of spent fuel rods, Mariotte said.

There have already been several instances in which the Navy has spent more than an extra $ 1 billion in unexpected fuel costs.

But so is the cost of any method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough to make a similar difference — whether it's doubling the fuel efficiency of every single car and truck on the road (which would cost a few trillion dollars and take at least 15 years) or building scores of new wind turbines for each turbine already turning today or erecting hundreds of new solar cell arrays for every array in use today.

«If you look at cost per kilowatt - hour, renewables, in some parts of the country, are already cheaper [than fossil fuels].»

Today's final rulemaking builds on the fuel efficiency and GHG emissions standards already in place for model years 2014 - 2018, which alone will result in CO2 emissions reductions of 270 million metric tons and save vehicle owners more than $ 50 billion in fuel costs.

The Eco is a high - mileage version of the Cruze whose modifications improve upon the car's already respectable fuel economy without adding as much cost as a hybrid system would.

If you're financing your car through Peugeot, it offers a popular programme called «Just Add Fuel» — a single monthly payment that covers all motoring costs such as routine servicing (but not wear parts), VED tax, breakdown cover and even comprehensive insurance (provided you're over a certain age, have had a licence for at two years and already have two years» no claims discount).

If you're financing your car through Peugeot, it offers a popular programme called «Just Add Fuel», which is a single monthly payment that covers all motoring costs such as routine servicing (but not wear parts, like brakes and tyres), road tax, breakdown cover and even comprehensive insurance (provided you're over a certain age, have held a licence for at least two years and already have two years» no claims discount).

Trees - EVs already out perform ICEs on a number of measures - fuel cost, repair and maintenance costs, safety, noise, lower center of gravity, interior space, ability to charge at home, ability to run home off car in emergency - basically when batteries improve from 265WH / Kg to 350Wh / Kg and from $ 180 per KWh to $ 100 per KWh the ICE car will be over for all but nostalgia buffs.

Mild - hybrid engines are set to replace diesels as a low - cost alternative for fuel efficient units, with plug - in hybrids already available across much of the Volvo range.

A hybrid drivetrain for an already fuel - conscious smaller car just hasn't been worth the extra cost until now.

My wife is already saving more than 2 1/2 times her weekly fuel costs from when she owned a 2000 Ford Explorer Sport.

Fuel prices continue skyward, groceries are already through the roof, and education costs — forget about it.

Furthermore, their refineries are already setup to manufacture one type of fuel, and the costs to change the refinery would most likely be prohibitive.

The fuel costs are already included.

This means that even if a cost increase is imposed upon us by a supplier - for example due to an increase in fuel costs - and we need to increase the holiday price for all new bookings, we guarantee that a price rise will not affect you, if you have already booked your holiday.

That represents a 25 - 33 % increase in costs for what were already the most expensive awards, and British Airways is STILL collecting fuel surcharges on these tickets.

The other point I wanted to make with respect to a cost / benefit analysis of reduction and eventual near elimination of fossil fuel as an energy source is that this is already an unavoidable future.

Then let's take the pile of money already wasted on coal - liquefication and coal - gasification while ignoring the energy and environmental costs and use it for making direct solar energy the fuel for transportation, also all over the planet.

Their critics say their stance, however well intentioned, will produce the real delays, given how much can be done now simply by cutting energy waste with tools already on the shelf — ranging from strengthening efficiency standards to eliminating billions of dollars in persistent fossil - fuel subsidies that continue to make coal and oil much cheaper than they really are when all their hidden costs are revealed.

We interviewed tourism officials who expressed caution about clamping down too much on development, given the lack of growth in other economic sectors, and fisherman concerned that no - fishing zones could end fishing altogether — saying local fisherman aren't the main problem and are already facing high fuel costs and competition from cheaper seafood imports.

The two scientists have already reported on the increasing costs of delay in phasing out fossil fuel sources of energy.

The cost of solar energy, however, has plummeted in recent years and is already cost competitive with fossil fuel - based grid power in 10 U.S. states.

There are some options available for increased efficiency but because fuel costs are a major cost driver most of the big impact efficiency possibilities have already been implemented.

In fact, when all costs are taken into consideration, fossil fuels are already more expensive than many renewable energy sources.

Already, supporters have drawn on the research from the study to call for forcing fossil fuel companies to pay for the costs of «climate damages,» including damage due to hurricanes and flooding.

They might very well become cost - competitive with fossil fuels without subsidies (and they already are in some locations.)

Technology policy can make clean energy cheaper, but not necessarily cheaper than fossil fuel alternatives, particularly existing coal power plants whose capital costs are already sunk.

«Drillers fear that federal protections for more threatened and endangered animals could drive up their costs at a time when the industry is already battered by low oil prices, growing competition from renewable energy, and increasing attention from investors and regulators over the climate - altering impacts of fossil fuels,» DeSmog's Sharon Kelly wrote.

In this view, energy efficiency pays for itself, solar and wind power are already nearly cost competitive with fossil fuels, and both can quickly and cheaply reduce emissions.

The only reason those alternatives are not already the status quo are because they have not been able to externalise any of their costs unlike the fosil fuel industry.

Global greenhouse gas emissions per region / Global CO2 emissions per region from fossil - fuel use and cement production The Report includes a new systematic assessment of how various economic sectors can reduce their climate - warming emissions, focusing on the potential eductions from the wide application of already - known and cost - effective technologies.

The report, The Human Cost of Weather - Related Disasters 1995 - 2015, is intended to focus attention during the UN climate change conference — which opens in Paris on Monday − on the damage already inflicted by global warming as a consequence of rising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, in turn as a consequence of the human combustion of fossil fuels and the destruction of the planet's forests.

Fossil fuel consumption already has «fetters»: restrictions on air and water pollution, transportation costs, taxes.

«American families are already paying the costs of the extreme weather and health risks fueled by the climate crisis,» he said.

Already on this thread, I showed that claims about the «prohibitive» cost of Indian nuclear power had little basis and the levies on nuclear power generation in the US for decommissioning and spent fuel management to be small fraction of the renewables levy in Germany

LONDON / NEW YORK, September 14 — Renewable power generation costs are already lower on average worldwide than those of fossil fuels and clean energy plants will become even more cost - competitive by 2020, a new sensitivity analysis published by the Carbon Tracker Initiative finds.