Sentences with phrase «fuel prices soar»

As fuel prices soar, Hyundai plans to add a four - cylinder engine to its Santa Fe lineup when the crossover is redesigned in 2010.

The energy crisis gave way to an endless cycle of ups and downs, with sales bottoming out anytime fuel prices soared or the economy tanked.

But by 1974, with fuel prices soaring and development costs estimated at $ 2 billion to $ 3 billion, Boeing's partner in the project, International Husky, couldn't find enough customers for the 754, and the project was canceled.

Not exact matches

The airlines that survived the volatile decade following 9/11 have since consolidated themselves into a lucrative oligopoly, prompting questions about why smaller cities continue to lose service, why seats keep getting smaller, why fares have remained stubbornly high even as fuel prices dropped and profits soared, and why paying passengers are being quasi-defenestrated from overbooked flights.

For example, after Latvian property prices soared as Swedish bank branches fueled the real estate bubble, living standards plunged.

FedEx's second - quarter earnings soared 23 percent, but the package delivery company missed Wall Street forecasts due partially to a lower - than - expected benefit from falling fuel prices.

Global airline stocks are currently soaring as a result of low oil prices, increased seat capacity and more fuel - efficient aircraft.

(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.

Gordon Brown has written to the chairman of the G8 urging international action too avert fears of a growing crisis fuelled by soaring global food prices.

«Instead of investing in our future, millionaire ministers have put up VAT and are cutting jobs and pay and threatening to raid the pensions of hard - pressed public servants, and all the while food and fuel prices continue to soar.

This would increase fuel poverty for families and pensioners whilst, in contrast to Miliband's energy price - freeze, make a negligible difference on soaring bills.

At the same time, the aviation industry has become far more fuel efficient in the face of soaring prices.

Wasser says the soaring price for ivory — now worth as much as $ 850 per kilo wholesale — is fueling this round of killing, which he argues is worse than that of the 1980s.

A couple of years later, after the industry was turned upside down by soaring oil prices and economic turmoil, governments began mandating tough new limits on fuel economy and carbon - dioxide emissions.

GM will launch «at least» 20 new battery - electric or fuel - cell vehicles by 2023: While no one has figured out how to make money on BEVs or fuel cells yet, this announcement spurs on GM's already soaring share prices.

Fuel economy improved, as did consumer acceptance of the little car, which soared thanks to low prices and excellent versatility.

With its impressive fuel economy, this is a perfect option for daily driving if gasoline prices again soar.

When Maruti Suzuki was developing the Vitara Brezza, this segment was skewed towards diesel but with the reduction in price gap between the two popular fuels, demand for petrol cars has started to soar again.

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On today's show... Hyundai teases its next - gen hydrogen powered SUV... Sergio Marchionne predicts that EV prices are going to soar... and Honda intros a diesel with eye popping fuel economy.

More recently, most Tofas have been converted to use LPG fuel as gasoline prices soared and made the cars financially unfeasible in its unmodified state.

I saw your support for cellulosic ethanol, but no statement on the logic (or lack thereof) of the United States diverting some 40 percent of its corn crop to fuel while world grain prices soar.

Global Commodities Boom Fuels New Assault on Amazon (6/20/2008) With soaring prices for agricultural goods and new demand for biofuels, the clearing of the world's largest rain forest has accelerated dramatically.

We know there is evidence that the violence triggered by the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 were in part fuelled by protests over soaring food prices.

With oil prices soaring, biofuels from corn, palm oil, sugar cane and other agricultural products are increasingly seen as a cheap and cleaner alternative to fossil fuels.

The price of fossil fuels has soared over the past decade, making renewable energy more competitive.

When petrol prices soared to around $ 2 per litre in 2008, I expected a deluge of articles in favour of this turn of events, as the rise in oil prices was a good simulation of the precise type of policy response required to reduce emissions — that is, a large (and almost overnight) tax on fossil fuel use.

In effect, fueled by Bitcoin's impressive surge, Nvidia stock price continues to soar.

Higher development fees in many municipalities are also adding to costs, as are fuel surcharges increasingly being levied by gravel, lumber and concrete suppliers in the face of soaring diesel prices.»