Sentences with phrase «further fuels price increases»

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Energy prices, in particular, have risen sharply: Japan buys virtually all of its oil and gas abroad, and the post-Fukushima shutdown of the country's nuclear industry has further increased the need for fossil fuels.

Recently, increases in competition and price have begun to force prospective homeowners to find affordable real estate outside of the Greater Toronto Area, while others are opting to wait on the sidelines for price increases to slow — choosing to rent or renovate — further fuelling inventory shortages across the region.

For any website in a vertical with SEOs worth salt, these kinds of links don't stay uncovered for long — and all that happens is a return to middle ground, and / or an increase in price for the directory that further fuels the inversion of profits that actually creates a net - loss for the second link acquirer.

With this focus on electrified urban centres, allied to escalating costs of operating conventionally - fuelled cars are oil prices increase, rural areas may require some further action to resolve mounting personal transport challenges.

Sales of compact sedans are especially strong these days because they are more spacious, more luxuriously trimmed, dramatically safer, and far more fuel - efficient than ever before, even while pricing has hardly increased.

Despite a significant increase in efficiency and output (143 kW / 195 hp compared with 125 kW / 170 hp) and far lower fuel consumption (4.2 litres compared with 4.8 litres per 100 kilometres), the basic price of the E 220 d with automatic transmission, for example, is comparable with that of the previous E 220 BlueTEC ($ 50,485.75 compared with $ 50,158.50).

There was some bad news for Drax recently as the UK government decided that biomass subsidies would not keep climbing as the «carbon price floor» — levied on fossil fuel production (and due to rise further)-- on electricity consumption has caused a backlash from manufacturers, consumer groups and energy suppliers who are concerned that the «tax will push up prices, make the UK uncompetitive and force the premature closure of coal - fired power plants, increasing the risk of blackouts.»

I know many on this site beleive peak oil is a bigger threat than global warming, but I can't help but think the 20 - 100 year time lag between CO2 release and maximum effect is a far less addressable than issues of increasing fossil fuel prices.

«Accordingly, as we concluded in D.P.U. 10 - 54, at 229 - 230, the Cape Wind facility will produce far greater benefits in terms of its: (1) contribution to narrowing the projected gap between supply and demand of renewable resources; (2) contribution to compliance with GWSA emission reductions requirements; (3) contribution to fuel diversity; (4) price suppression effects; (5) ability to act as a hedge against future fuel price increases and volatility; (6) contribution to system reliability; and (7) ability to moderate system peak load.

Increasing the price of carbon - based fuels will further spur innovation, however, and create additional opportunities for energy entrepreneurs to offer their wares.

As alternatives are exploited — bringing economies of scale into play, to make them less expensive per unit — demand for carbon - based fuels, solvents and components of processes that end up in the atmosphere drops, resulting in lower prices for carbon products and eventually resulting in a point of diminishing returns to further price level increases in the carbon cycle fee..

However, when you think about specific sources of emission such as power generation and transport emissions there are far more effective ways of reducing these emissions that avoid the need for increasing the price of fuels and / or driving up the average price of electricity to the point where investment in clean electricity is justified.

On Friday (Dec 5), the NDRC announced further proposals for energy price reform in the petroleum sector that would come into effect January 1 by indirectly linking domestic fuel prices to international crude oil prices as well as substantially increasing fuel taxes.

As a report by China International Capital Corp. said, «After today's increase, there is still 60 percent room for China to further raise domestic fuel prices to move in line with the international levels...»

In addition, the massive tax cut and increases in government spending will also lead to more consumer spending and the need to hire more workers, further fueling price pressure.