Sentences with phrase «fuel industry gets»

If the fossil fuel industry gets its way, there will be at least four major new fracked gas pipeline projects criss - crossing the Blue Ridge and Appalachian regions of Virginia and West Virginia — endangering our forests and farmlands, the communities living along their routes, and taking us backward in our fight to stop climate change.
The whole fossil fuel industry gets in the way.

Not exact matches

Now, what we have is an incredibly efficient, incredibly progressive industry that is very cost - sensitive, it improves dramatically, looks at scraps, reductions in fuel reductions in water usage, better yeast for the fermentation, better enzymes to convert the starch to sugar... every scrap of economic performance they can get
The company gets 70 % of its $ 10 billion in revenue from the aerospace industry, as airlines have ramped up demand for fuel - efficient jets.
He gets lambasted for supposed hypocrisy because he flies to places on planes — which use a lot of fossil fuel — to criticize the fossil fuel industry.
In a utopian world, Canadian auto workers would get huge raises, governments would lavish money on the industry, and cars would drive themselves as they met fuel efficiency and emissions standards effortlessly.
Canada's coming national price on carbon adds further fuel to the debate, as some will be looking for Canadian industries affected by the carbon price to get protections, maybe even in the form of a carbon tax applied at the border on goods coming from places in the U.S. where there is no such policy.
The answer is politics: Getting rid of government regulations plays well with voters as well as with big - donor fossil fuel industries.
That said, the nuclear industry's FLEX approach, would also include additional pumps and hoses to get water to the spent - fuel pools, as well as instruments to monitor their condition.
That's not nearly enough to fuel the entire global airline industry, but, as Morgan explains, «it's really an important step because it gets us out of the experimental phase and gets industries into large quantities at cost - competitive prices.»
And in the movie the fossil fuel industry and the nuclear people get together and kidnap this renewable energy guy to make sure the president can't choose that system.
What we have to do, which is of great importance, is to stop pandering to the fossil fuel industry and get onto clean, green energy.
«The message we expect this conference to send investors in the fossil fuel industry is «get out now».»
Wellness Beyond the Wellthy In a country where income and «wellbeing» inequalities helped fuel a populist backlash, a U.S. wellness industry too associated with the 1 % ($ 300 yoga pants and Reiki sessions) will change: wellness will get more democratized.
These attitude is fueling the decline in number of people getting married... and the future success and growth of the online personals industry.
Laguna Creek teacher Eric Johnson writes grant proposals and has a knack for getting community and industry support — an alternative fuel company donated a $ 17,000 gas chromatograph (used to check the purity of biofuels) to his school's GETA academy.
Giving you an insight into how they got started in the training industry, how they continue to be successful today, and how they use Administrate to help fuel that success, it's a great chance to get a sneak peek into the lives of these training providers.
Per Cari Crane, Senior Industry Analyst at TrueCar, hybrid vehicles typically get better fuel economy than gas - only powered vehicles.
The US auto industry offers very small options when it comes to competing with the Germans in the luxo sedan segment, and apart from the new Fusion hybrid, Japan's got us spanked in fuel efficiency.
beware of the advertised fuel mileage, although I am sure it is an industry wide problem of not getting what is advertised as far as gas mileage
The familiar 5.3 - liter and 6.2 - liter V - 8 get an industry - first fuel - saving technology Chevy calls Dynamic Fuel Managemfuel - saving technology Chevy calls Dynamic Fuel ManagemFuel Management.
With the industry focused on boosting fuel economy, the next Vette will likely loose some weight and get a new generation of the small - block V8 with direct injection to get more power from less displacement and better fuel economy.
With todayâ $ ™ s progressive technology, the auto industry is incorporating hybrid technology and lighter building materials into SUVs allowing them to get excellent fuel economy.
Gasoline engines get an industry - first variable cylinder cutoff system for a fuel economy gain of nearly 20 percent.
The auto industry is feeling the political shift in Washington, as future fuel economy standards are getting a second look.
For example, in the side - by - side comparison of the 2016 Toyota Prius vs. 2016 Ford C - Max hybrid, on the one hand you have a vehicle that has won a safety award and gets an industry - leading fuel economy in the 2016 Prius, and on the other you have a vehicle that will cost you more over the lifetime of the car, with its lower fuel economy.
Security is a multi-Billion dollar industry and the fear of your data being compromised or your device whether it's a phone or computer being ruined, is what fuels the industry and gets people to shell out money for things they might not necessarily need in the first place.
While the humanization trend and the empty nests of Baby Boomers often get the lion's share of credit for fueling the success that the pet care market has enjoyed in recent years, that success ultimately may not have been possible without the handful of product manufacturers that have long served as the bedrock upon which the retail pet industry was built.
There's a public relations strategy used in the late 1990s by the fossil fuel industry to get their talking points across (they were all bogus talking points, but it was a fairly effective strategy).
Get used to eating less cow, people, because that industry will not be sustainable as grain and fuel prices rise.
It really points to very serious widespread problems in the U.S. academic and journalistic professions — you can't do research on renewable energy in the U.S. academic system, because of fossil fuel influence, and you can't get honest coverage of renewable energy initiatives in the U.S. press, also because of undue influence by vested interests — and more often than not these days, those vested interests are in finance, not in industry.
With the degree to which the Obama administration has supported the gas industry as a transitional fuel to get away from coal, it is great to see Fox and Gasland II getting this attention and raising the issues related to this source of energy.
California could get roughly halfway to that goal in a perfect world — one without impediments such as higher costs, nimby fights and resistance from consumers and industries wedded to fossil fuels.
His conclusion, which I see as robustly supported by peer - reviewed work (including the new paper), is that California could get roughly halfway to that goal in a perfect world — one without impediments such as higher costs, nimby fights and resistance from consumers and industries wedded to fossil fuels.
In the long run, the auto industry's utter financial ruin might have been the best thing to happen to them, from a green perspective: they certainly weren't going to get fuel efficiency standards up any time soon without it, and now it's lead to potential tailpipe legislation passing — which will force them to clean up their acts.
heck you cant even get agreement on what consititutes a subsidy for the fossil fuel industry or how to end them.
The fossil fuel industry has gotten us into this climate mess, and listening to their advice is almost certainly going to lead to false solutions that do not result in the changes to society and emissions levels that are needed.
But let's get one thing straight, Oreskes is little more than yet another «cog in the wheel» when it comes to accusing skeptic climate scientists of being paid shills of the fossil fuel industry, enslaved just like all the other cogs to the same single source for the accusation, Ross Gelbspan.
It's hard to understand why (mainly conservative) state governments are opposing the RET when they could be divested themselves of outdated, polluting coal - fired generators while picking up taxes from renewable energy related industries and services — unless of course the same state governments are getting healthy and frequent «donations» from various fossil fuel companies.
These guys get tons of money from the fossil fuel industry, and then they lead their party off the deep end.
You can help — get involved with the Detroit Sierra Club and help the community stand up to the dirty fuel industry.
Man for thousands of years has tried to find ways of «roping the wind», and it wasn't until the 1970's that science and industry really got going, when the emergence of wind farms as a viable alternative to fossil fuel power began to gain momentum.
It's clear that to get where people, the planet and our climate need us to be, we need to do everything we can to smash the power of the fossil fuel industry while building our own, and this walkout led by movements and organisations who may be working together for the first time is part of that process.
Great, so we get to look forward to swapping one fossil fuel industry backed labor dinosaur for a fossil fuel industry backed liberal dinosaur.
And get this: molten salt reactors run at much higher temperatures than today's reactors, so heavy industry can use them as a clean source of industrial heat, replacing the fossil fuel furnaces they use today.
The point here is not that Gelbspan appears to have put out misinformation about his collective work back in 2004, it is that his words have huge influence right up to the present time, such as the only months - old «fossil fuel industry misinformation» research paper written by an impressionable young college student, or the days - old suggestion by one of his Facebook Friends that he should get a guest appearance on CNBC's Rachel Maddow show.
To get truly serious about addressing climate change, Washington must end the billions in subsidies going to the industry and move to keep fossil fuels in the ground by banning drilling offshore and ending the fossil fuel leasing program on public lands.
Hobby sites like «WattsUpWithThat» are a start to effective opposition, but to be honest it really is time that the fossil fuel industry who so many believers think are funding the sceptics, got off their backsides, put their hands in their pockets and did the decent thing to fund the professional science «opposition» which is needed to force the climategate forecasters to stop feeding this monster with their PR and start to try to justify the existence of their monster based on real science in the face of real decently financed opposition and not part - time unpaid people like us here.
Read this book (or see the movie) to learn how the fossil fuel industry plays the game, and get motivated to deny the deniers their day and win the most important battle for sound science in all of history.
If corporations in the fossil fuel industry and their supporters are guilty of the misdeeds that have been documented in books and journal articles, it is imperative that these misdeeds be stopped as soon as possible so that America and the world can get on with the critically important business of finding effective ways to restabilize the Earth's climate, before even more lasting damage is done.
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