Sentences with phrase «fuel mandates such»

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The Obama administration seems to agree, granting $ 786 million in 2009 for biofuels research and setting up the Biofuels Interagency Working Group to study how best to meet the renewable fuel standard mandated by Congress that will require increasing the amount of renewable fuels, such as ethanol, to 36 billion gallons by 2022.

«It takes 77 million years to make fossil fuels and 45 minutes to use as a coffee cup,» says Cereplast's Scheer, noting that his industry can use the residue of government - mandated production of biofuels, such as ethanol from corn.

The truck was modified prior to the race with racing body - mandated safety items such as a roll cage, a 44 - gallon racing fuel tank and racing seats with safety harnesses.

Entered in class 7300, which comprises stock production mid-sized pick - ups and SUVs, Hall Racing's modifications to their ZR2 include sanctioning body - mandated safety items such as a roll cage, a 44 - gallon racing fuel tank and racing seats with safety harnesses.

But credits for such things as environmentally friendly air conditioners and stop - start systems means that the actual fuel economy rating on the window sticker will be less than 54.5 mpg in nine years, and vehicles still will meet the government's mandates.

This might be a good way to help cut it down, along with other improvements such as mandated better engines and emission control equipment and low - sulfur fuels.

Market - based principles should guide policymakers away from top - down, government - mandated ventures such as the flawed Renewable Fuel Standard — which could force higher ethanol blend fuels into the national supply, potentially damaging vehicle engines and saddling consumers with repair costs.

Also of interest is the political reason why the ethanol mandate is so hard to get rid of: Rural Republican districts benefit hugely from the market distortion and some alt - fuel fanatics in D.C, such as Obama, love to stick it to the oil companies regardless of environmental impact.

Mandates and subsidies for fossil - fuel intensive biofuels such as corn - derived ethanol are so large that eliminating or reducing them would almost certainly do more than a carbon tax to curb these fuels» artificial price advantage.

When the fossil fuel sources of these environmental impacts are made to pay the true cost of the pollution created, through mandated updated technological fixes such as improved and more efficient pollution control, limited coal sources, and other mediation devices, the true cost of coal will make other energy sources more viable.

Direct government incentives or mandates have been established in the past to encourage the use of renewable fuels such as PEF.»

Secondly, focussing on delivering turnkey hybrid power solutions, which is of immense requirement in remote power installations such as island nations, most of which either can not afford the kind of diesel or fuel import costs that exist at this particular stage, or have mandates to move away from heavy carbon footprint in order to meet climate change goals.

As such, he was receptive to fuel switching as a way to meet his Climate Action Plan, a non-binding mandate to reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions 20 % below 2008 levels.

The result is that the two most positive provisions of the energy bill — a clean energy mandate and a tax package reining in handouts for fossil fuels and promoting clean energy — are being removed while detrimental provisions, such as a radical five-fold increase in unsustainable biofuel use, remain.

Federal law mandates that oil companies use 12 billion gallons of renewable fuels such as ethanol in this year, rising to 15 billion gallons by 2015.

The lawsuit challenges the DOE's failure to mandate the purchase reporting of alterative fuel vehicles by such fleets.

In a Friday memo, Perry asked his chief of staff to undertake a 60 day inquiry into «the extent to which continued regulatory burdens, as well as mandates and tax and subsidy policies, are responsible for forcing the premature retirement of baseload power plants,» such as those fueled by coal or nuclear energy, among other grid related questions.

In addition, government fleets are now mandated to switch from petroleum to a cleaner and preferably domestic alternative fuel, such as electricity.