Sentences with phrase «fuel costs continue»

Today's increased fuel costs continue to drive up the price of supermarket goods.

However, airfares and fuel costs continue to be volatile so some rises in brochure prices may be anticipated and therefore early booking is recommended.

On the other hand, its fuel economy is slightly better than the more potent V8, a point that may become more relevant as fuel costs continue to rise.

Not exact matches

Newton, who doesn't own the stock but has his eye on it, says investors have to believe that the U.S. will continue its push for energy independence and that natural gas prices will remain low enough to keep it a more cost - effective way to fuel up.

The clean energy industry's continued ability to cut costs and reduce the demand for fossil fuels is pivotal to its success in the coming years.

We believe the country's lower labor costs, and rising global fuel prices, will continue to lure international manufacturers to the Latin American nation.

However, rising fuel and energy costs as well as environmental insurance and security costs continue to escalate beyond our normal operating costs.

In addition to a weaker euro, which helps fuel its export - oriented economy, the cost of financing its sovereign debt relative to its existing debt continues to fall while the smaller countries struggle with rising financing costs.

Continuing with the GPS navigation example, newer digital technologies and applications are now able to route logistics and delivery transporters to maximum delivery effectiveness while lowering fuel costs.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

He predicts continued fuel cost savings and CO2 reduction as Deli Express / E.

Commenting on the figures, Construction Products Association senior economist, Kelly Forrest said: «It is encouraging that sales rose in the first quarter, but manufacturers also highlighted the key factors that threaten growth throughout 2012 and into 2013, these factors include the continuing uncertainty within the euro zone, and significant concern regarding rising costs, especially fuel costs.

Exelon Corp., owner of Nine Mile Point, estimated it would cost about $ 125 million to resupply FitzPatrick with uranium fuel rods next fall, which would allow the plant to continue operating two years beyond when plant owner Entergy Corp. plans to shut it down, the administration official said.

«I continue to strive toward a clean energy future for the State of New York, including: the addition of more renewable energy generation, greater energy efficiency, reliability for all consumers, improved transmission infrastructure, fuel source diversity, and innovative environmental stewardship, all at a reasonable cost to ratepayers,» said Sen. Joe Griffo.

He pointed to fuel, health care and retirement costs as key areas where expenses will continue to rise in 2014.

But researchers continue to hunt for materials that can store methane at low pressure, which would save energy and the cost of condensing the fuel.

The announcements reflect a continuing trend of lenders and Wall Street institutions stepping away from fossil fuel projects, in particular coal and cost - intensive oil projects, such as offshore and Arctic drilling.

Because the world's uranium supply is finite and the continued growth in the numbers of thermal reactors could exhaust the available low - cost uranium reserves in a few decades, it makes little sense to discard this spent fuel or the «tailings» left over from the enrichment process.

But the prospect of global warming, together with the recent jolt in fuel costs, is bringing industry round to the idea that «we can not continue current levels of dependence on fossil fuels.»

As energy - efficient technologies continue to attract funding from government and private research agencies, Miller said he hopes that by 2016, solar cell technology will reach cost parity with other fuels and be used in many homes across the country.

The overall mission costs $ 671 million, and if it reaches orbit successfully, it may have enough fuel to continue for almost a decade, said Jakosky.

The most important point is that fossil fuel costs will continue to grow in the years to come, with or without climate change legislation.

The point of this graphic detail is to make clear the magnitude of the cleanup task and potential costs, if fossil fuel emissions continue unabated.

Our school has always tried very hard to make it possible for my daughter to attend, but with a modest income and growing basic family expenses (such as housing, heating, transportation and fuel costs) continuing at a private school has been increasing difficult and stressful.

Mike Petitdemange, principal engineer for the Sustainable Property Team at the council, said: «We can demonstrate that our annual energy costs would have amounted to # 4.6 million more if we had continued to consume fuel at the same rate that we were 30 years ago.

The FuelEd Homebound Education Program is a cost - effective alternative that enables students to continue to receive the highest quality education, engage with other students, and progress at a rate that keeps them on pace for an easy transition back into their regular classroom.

Consumers have been slow to gravitate toward electric vehicles (EVs) as a result of their high cost and fears about driving range, but automakers continue to develop technology because it is seen as a primary driver in meeting rising fuel - efficiency requirements globally.

TMC, believing that eco-cars only contribute to society through widespread use, said it will will continue to refine conventional engine fuel efficiency while placing hybrid technology as key to further improving the performance of eco-cars, reducing their cost and improving the overall TMC product lineup.

While other compact SUV models cost less, and others offer more interior space or better fuel economy, the 2016 Escape continues to cover all the bases.

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

That's some serious momentum, and although low fuel costs certainly help, so does Chevrolet's continued attention to a truck that just launched as an all - new model for the 2014 model year.

It has, unfortunately, come to the point that even our best personal sacrifices are not enough in the face of rising fuel costs, skyrocketting pharmaceutical costs, increasing licensing and permit fees in each community of county or city which we serve, and we are having to increase our fees a bit in order to continue our mission.

The cost of high - quality, human - grade ingredients has continued to rise along with increased shipping costs and fuel surcharges.

Airlines have, on the whole, been terrible at making an effort to continue the pretence that fuel surcharges and the cost of...

Tar Sands Environmental Destruction Not Worth It At the risk of sounding flippant, sounds like too little too late: I'll stand by the WWF's assessment that the economic and environmental costs of continuing to develop tar sands and oil shales — in energy speak «unconventional fuels» — are simply unthinkable.

It can easily replace diesel and teh oils used in manufacturing of plastics and can also be refined into jet fuel and other petroleum products... MIT has a bioreactor that is carbon negative (I believe)... I'm not a scientist (obviously), but it seems to me that this, along with wind, solar and tidal would go a long long way to solving some of these issues, at a fraction of the cost of continuing to drill and extract.

Point # 1 is that WHATEVER the effects on our curent population, steep continuing rise in cost of fossil fuels is WONDERFUL.

Cost of these alternative sources are cheaper than continuing to use irreplaceable fossil fuels or dangerous (both materially and policically) radioactive materials.

Globalization will still continue for goods where the savings still exceed the transportation cost, and also for services — there's no fuel cost for an overseas call center, for example.

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.

with fewer costs for external inputs, this will be a massive profit center for them, in addition to their continued, unregulated, sales of fossil fuels.

This will happen simply as a result of market forces, as fossil fuels inevitably become scarcer and more difficult and costly to obtain, while the cost of ever more powerful technologies for harvesting abundant, free energy from sunlight and wind continues to plummet.

The reality of reaching peak global production of cheap, conventional light, sweet crude oil supplies will continue to force strong upper pressure on the cost of crude oil, gasoline, diesel and airplane liquid fuels.

But this wouldn't preclude the inevitable fight over the costs and benefits of continued reliance on fossil fuels.

The «moral hazard» argument against CDR goes something like this: CDR could be a «Trojan horse» that fossil fuel interests will use to delay rapid decarbonization of the economy, as these fossil interests could use the prospect of cost - effective, proven, scaleable CDR technologies as an excuse for continuing to burn fossil fuels today (on the grounds that at some point in the future we'll have the CDR techniques to remove these present - day emissions).

As PV costs drop, as concerns about climate change grow, and as countries look to replace finite fossil fuels with energy sources that can never run out, the growth in solar power should continue.

Were cost - effective CDR solutions available at large scale, however, developing countries could continue to rely on fossil fuel energy sources until the business case for renewable energy improved, so long as CDR were deployed to offset fossil emissions associated with this transition.

Providing a mechanism for continued extraction of low - cost fossil fuels — even if some CO2 is sequestered in the process — is the main drawback of EOR.

The state's Public Utilities Commission is expected to review the net metering rules in 2018, and it is almost certain that the utilities will continue to push for policies that will increase costs and reduce benefits for solar providers, while improving the bottom line for dirty and climate change inducing fossil fuel facilities.

The study analyses the potential for continued cost reductions in solar photovoltaics (PV) and electric vehicle (EV) technologies to displace demand for currently dominant fossil fuels and mitigate CO2 emissions.