Sentences with phrase «fueling large raises»

As a result, the fees from overdraft charges resulted in a larger and larger percentage of bank profits year after year, fueling large raises and bonuses for those at the top of the management chain.

Not exact matches

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced raising $ 32 million in funding in late 2011 — then a large sum for the company — to fuel its expansion across North America and into Europe and Asia.

By raising fuel duty by 1p above inflation every year it ensured tax became a large proportion of petrol pump prices, but since 2010 the proportion has fallen steeply.

In large part, that may be because California hopes its efforts will quickly be followed by other states so that it is not the only state raising the cost of burning fossil fuels.

The largest surviving bogs are in Ireland's central plain, where some 250 000 hectares of raised bog have been heavily cut, mostly for fuel.

The Miracle Whey uses digestive resistant maltodextrin which provides sweetness but does not at all raise insulin levels and also serves as a prebiotic fuel source for bacteria in your large intestine.

Added attractions include direct fuel injection, a larger bore, a shorter stroke, and a higher compression ratio (raised from 11.9 to 12.2:1).

The GT had already featured a radically styled body, but the GTR took this a little further with features such as a very large rear spoiler bolted directly to the chassis like a true race car, 18 inch hollow magnesium Speedline centerlock wheels, pneumatic air jacks for raising the car in the pit lane (like the SV - R, it was too low for a rolling jack), and an emergency fuel shutoff switch on the left front fender.

Fundamental news items such as strong earnings reports and raised guidance, FDA approvals, successful clinical trials, outside investments, partnerships / joint ventures with larger peer companies, successful court rulings, patent news and analyst upgrades can fuel a short squeeze.

The facility included Mission Revival houses, a heavy - lift boom for raising supply boats, 3 2000 gallon fuel tanks, a 30,000 square foot water catchment basin, and 2 large redwood water tanks housed in a building.

I am not yet in my 40's but was raised in a very alternative community of people in nyc in the 70's and 80's... amidst the depression of the city at that time, there were tons of free - thinking individuals, groups and companies leading the way presenting biofuel - concepts and ideas, or promoting industries based on recycling things rather than being a disposable society... there have always been large numbers of people in the pro-environment movement country and world - wide that cried out about how alternative thinking would lead to newer, more positive and less harmfully - impacting industries and tried to introduce inventions that could have spurred new economies... Had the auto industry not blocked things, we could have had more energy efficient cars decades ago... but they did not want the «expense» of helping foster this new industry... it is so damn sad it took a war to make people «wake up» about alternative fuels and how exciting the options are.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

The large majority of «environmental taxes» are raised from measures which either long pre-date concerns about emissions reduction, ie fuel duty, road tax, VAT or have nothing to do with reducing CO2 (landfill tax, aggregates levy).

But Romm never grapples with why cap and trade can not achieve large emissions reductions, which is that voters and policymakers will not raise the price of fossil fuels high enough to make clean energy cost competitive.

Burning fossil fuels to produce energy is the largest contributor to carbon emissions and the main culprit in raising the Earth's temperature in the past century.

North Carolina based minority - owned developer of renewable energy products and technologies, 510Nano, successfully raised capital investments to build the largest solar farm developed, owned and operated by a minority owned - firm in the U.S. 510Nano's achievements and ability to solidify strategic partnerships have propelled it to not only manage challenges and overcome barriers in the energy industry, but has fueled a pipeline of solar projects and innovative systems that will aid in energy system transformation.

For instance, the venerable International Energy Agency in 2011 concluded that a large - scale shift to gas would «muscle out» low - carbon fuels and still result in raising the globe's temperatures 3.5 degrees Celsius — 75 percent above the two - degree level that the world's governments have identified as the disaster line.

In a world in which the combustion of fossil fuels is raising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, to ramp up global warming and trigger climate change, the stability of the world's last and largest pristine body of ice is always in question.

That rebuttal nicely sums up a lot of the accepted facts of unwavering peakoilers, e.g. that it's been conclusively shown that oil price hikes are linked to recession (not really; e.g. wrong macro policy responses to oil - led inflation often tried to tackle it by raising interest rates, which just compounded the problem and possibly triggered recession by itself; uncertainty in price is often more important to investment decisions that which direction it's going in, given that fuel costs are actually not a large % of overall costs.)