Sentences with phrase «fuel extraction costs»

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Air and water pollution from fossil fuel extraction and use have high costs in human health, food production, and natural ecosystems, killing more than 1,000,000 people per year and affecting the health of billions of people [232], [234], with costs borne by the public.

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.

Well, if and when fossil fuels become so depleted that their extraction cost starts to rival the next - best alternatives, their prices will rise and people will switch.

The high cost of carbon extraction naturally raises the question of responsibility for excess fossil fuel CO2 in the air.

R&D for renewable energy, de-funding the EPA Energy Star program, ignoring the Social Cost of Carbon, renewing leasing / sale of coal on Federal lands without regard to whether the coal companies are paying a reasonable price, threatening to open more Federal lands to fossil fuel extraction... the list goes on.

Also many factors involved in the cost of fuel: mining, extraction & purification, enrichment, and fuel fabrication.