Sentences with phrase «fuel imports from»

Finally, taking a more worldly view, they estimated replacing coal - fired power plants in Japan with liquid - natural - gas plants that burn fuel imported from the United States would also be a net - plus for the environment, with a 15 percent emissions savings.

Yes, but the suicidal Low Carbon Fuel Standards (LCFS) policy in California will contribute to the demise of the State Economy and require fuel import from «states» less friendly than Canada as the supply from alternative sources fail to meet unrealistic expectations.

But almost all of the revenue earned from selling electricity is spent on fuel imported from India to run the nation's existing vehicles, which number some 36,000 vehicles in Thimphu alone.

Not exact matches

The surplus was still down 47 percent from a year earlier, with the trade balance remained in deficit as the yen's decline has pushed up costs of imported fuels immediately while its impact on exports will take some time to be fully seen.

Today the company works with a bio - and fossil - fuel blend, which Shepherd insists is still kinder to the environment than importing salt from overseas.

But that hasn't dissuaded the kingdom from shifting its long - term energy strategy away from fossil fuel imports in favor of domestically produced renewable energy.

Important near - term influences on prices will be the significant increases in production costs that have occurred recently, arising from higher fuel prices, increases in a range of other commodity prices and the effect of the lower exchange rate on prices of imported inputs.

Singapore, one of the sunniest cities in the world, generates almost all its power from imported natural gas, with solar fuelling less than 1 percent.

Fuel imports, primarily from the US, are rising; our exports (primarily destined to the US) are declining.

But excluding both fuels and food, import prices ticked up 0.1 % last month from January, their first increase since May 2014.

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Fuel - starved Nepal has signed an agreement with China to import gasoline, diesel and cooking gas, effectively ending a monopoly on supply from India, which has restricted fuel convoys as a result of political protests in the Himalayan natFuel - starved Nepal has signed an agreement with China to import gasoline, diesel and cooking gas, effectively ending a monopoly on supply from India, which has restricted fuel convoys as a result of political protests in the Himalayan natfuel convoys as a result of political protests in the Himalayan nation.

Last year, the company imported 5.4 million litres of wine, a stunning jump from 2015's 1.7 million litres, thanks to its aggressive overseas winery acquisitions in France, Spain and most recently in Chile, fuelled by domestic consumers» demand for imported wines.

(Repeating story from earlier Monday) * Prices of lean beef trimmings soar * Meat processors race to find LFTB replacement * Loss of «pink slime» fuels imports of lean beef trimmings By Michael Hirtzer and P.J. Huffstutter WESTERN SPRINGS, Illinois, May 14 (Reuters)- Behind the glass meat counter at Casey's Market in a Chicago suburb, the butchers pick up their blades and carry on a generations - old tradition.

Yet, in the last one year in this administration, the same private operators who have not imported their own fuel were taking this fuel as control price from the government purchase.

One could frame the debate in the advantages of using less fossil fuel, which range from lower costs to people (an all electric car has operating costs about 1/4 that of a gasoline vehicle), to balance of payments (less capital flowing out of the country, especially relevant to countries who import most of their oil), to terrorism (not funding it, and western influence leaving the ME, which is the basis of most ME terrorist organizations) to conflict in general (most of the major conflicts in the last 30 years have involved ME oil), to finite supply (when we run out, we'll be facing a global economic meltdown).

The fiber and fuel derived from hemp would be carbon neutral and as such wouldn't contribute to global warming — and in fact could help mitigate rising temperatures by replacing chemical - intensive crops like cotton and imported fossil fuels like oil and gas.

Nikolai Yegorov, Russia's deputy minister for atomic power, told deputies of the Russian parliament that the country imports between 300 and 400 tonnes a year of uranium reclaimed from reprocessed French fuel.

Hydrogen, being an extremely light element, makes up only about 5 % of the weight of a rocket fuel mixture, and can thus be imported from Earth; heavy insulation and some gelling of the mixture with methane (as the hydrogen will not be fed directly into an engine) will reduce in - space boil - off to negligible levels.

Electricity is generated entirely from thermal plants using imported fossil fuels.

China's shift toward alternative fuels in order to cut its reliance on imported oil is creating large opportunities, notably in natural gas vehicles (NGVs) and in the conversion of coal to ethanol, according to a new report from Lux Research.

The U.S. Export - Import Bank (USEXIM) is the third - largest supporter of fossil fuels among all G20 countries, according to a new report out today from Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth U.S., and WWF's European Policy Office.

Consumer spending helped fuel the faster pace, but import purchases subtracted from growth.

Because it is produced from crops, it is a renewable fuel and reduces dependence on imported oil

Like most full - size import pickups, the Titan suffers from less than impressive fuel economy numbers.

When the light turned green, the tachs turned red; our import companion quickly removed himself from the equation as two American motoring icons reared back on their live axles and tore after the fast - approaching merge zone in a shameless display of society - shattering, testosterone - fueled misbehavior.

There is no other V - 6 powered full - size car from Ford, Chrysler or the imports that can match the Bonneville's highway fuel economy rating.

While puppy mills have been a problem for decades, consumer interest in buying miniature animals such as so - called «teacup» dogs is fueling an increase in imports from South Korea, according to Kahn.

American submarines cut off oil imports to Japan as the War in the Pacific progressed, and Japan was reduced to manufacturing jet fuel from pine trees; the Germans from coal liquifaction.

This country did not agree on how to value or price its concerns about oil imports (others taxed oil), whether or not one should move away from oil (others taxed all fuels), and more recently about CO2 (the brave Nordic countries have CO2 taxes).

And Brazil may likely keep these fuels to themselves whereas everyone thinks to import biofuels from them.

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.

In the New Mexico of 2020 includes a move away from fossil fuels, a perfected use of renewable power sources, zero - emissions buldings, fewer miles traveled, less imported power and fewer power lines, micorgrids that produce their own electricity for hundreds of communities, a reconfiguration of human organizations that aligns with better pricing and energy supply, green collar jobs, and supportive local governments.

[3] A recent report by the U.S. - based Natural Resources Defense Council shows that if Europe does not act, its imports of tar sands, one of the dirtiest fossil fuels, would likely skyrocket from about 4,000 barrels per day in 2012 to over 700,000 bpd in 2020.

«GDP goes up because the fee and dividend provides a boost to consumer spending, reducing demand for fossil fuels does not have a significant impact on American employment and reduces energy imports from abroad, and the border adjustment means American firms are on a level playing field when it comes to competing on the world market.»

Let's reword all this and say that we want to improve energy efficiency and reduce waste and real pollution wherever we can, we want to move away from ever scarcer and costlier fossil fuels, particularly those that have to be imported from a price - fixing cartel of nations that are generally hostile to us and we want to develop new domestic sources of energy, be that shale oil and gas, new biofuels (not silly corn - to - ethanol schemes) and other renewable energy sources, etc..

This is particularly critical for oil importing countries that will be cut off from oil exports at about twice the rate of the global decline in available transport fuels.

Palm oil from Indonesia and Malaysia is the biggest imported component of the biofuels in Europe's fuel tanks.

Like other analysts, BCG hasn't understood that within a decade, the choices for these nations with soaring vehicle populations will not be electricity from coal vs. imported gasoline but rather electricity from a evolving power grid vs. fuel made by liquefying domestic coal, with 2 - 3x the CO2 of coal - fueled plug - ins.)

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The myopic focus on anthropogenic climate change is diverting attention and resources from our critical challenge of developing and transitioning to alternative transport fuels fast enough to prevent massive economic harm especially to oil importing countries.

What's more, virtually all these fuels are imported from other states and foreign countries, transferring money out of the regional economy rather than keeping our valuable energy dollars here at home.

After providing almost $ 6 billion annually to fossil fuels from 2013 to 2015, the U.S. export credit agency — the U.S. Export - Import Bank (Ex-Im)-- has been unable to finance large fossil fuel projects for the past two years.

Whenever I buy grapes imported from Chile, fill my gas tank with fuel sourced in the Persian Gulf, or select underwear made in Thailand at a department store headquartered in Minneapolis, I can't help but wonder how much longer we can all go on like this.

Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Export - Import Bank (USEXIM) is the third largest supporter of fossil fuels among all G20 countries, according to a new report from Friends of the Earth U.S. and Oil Change International.

Setting strong standards that build on existing standards could cut fuel use by 1.4 million barrels per day - roughly equivalent to our oil imports from Venezuela and Iraq in 2011 combined.

These imports are not included in the import statistics until they are (1) withdrawn from storage free of duty for use as fuel for vessels and aircraft engaged in international trade; or (2) withdrawn from storage with duty paid for domestic use.

Participating countries are implementing import / export control regimes to prevent conflict diamonds from entering the legitimate diamond trade and fuelling conflicts and human rights abuses.

Inglis touts a carbon tax as a classic win - win - win because it makes the nation less reliant on oil imports from enemies, creates homegrown clean technology jobs and cleans up air sullied with pollutants from burning fossil fuels.

At the time, American natural gas production had plateaued, and overseas imports were expected to fill the gap with up to eight liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals proposed for the West Coast, bringing fuel in from as far away as Qatar.

Domestic emissions are only one part of Australia's contribution to climate change, which also includes emissions from the burning of fossil fuel exports (which dwarf domestic emissions) and emissions from the manufacture of imported products.