Sentences with phrase «gas prices caused»

The plunge in natural gas prices caused a collapse in the price of natural gas - fueled electricity, which has slumped below the production costs of nuclear plants.

The low natural gas prices caused coal's share of the power grid to fall from 42 % in 2011 to 37 % in 2012.

The recession of 1973 - 1975 in the U.S. came about because of rocketing gas prices caused by OPEC's raising oil prices as well as embargoing oil exports to the U.S..

Poll: Gas prices causing people to cut visits to family, friends — More than half of Americans say they've cut down on visiting family and friends due to gas prices, a CreditCards.com poll reveals.

High Gas Prices Mean Fewer Traffic Fatalities High Gas Prices = Fewer Auto Deaths Americans Direct Scorn Over High Gas Prices Towards Washington Carrot 0, Stick 1: Gas Prices Cause Boom in Bikes, Transit High Gas Prices Changing Society More Motorists Running Out of Gas Public Transit Looking More Attractive in the Face of Record Gas Prices Auto Makers Demand Higher Gas Prices

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So we asked in our research: What would happen if current low natural gas prices or pollution control policies caused all US coal - burning power plants to be replaced by natural gas generators?

It's one of the country's largest oil and gas producers, but, says Cheng, price differentials between Canadian and world oil prices, low natural gas prices, cost inflation and project delays caused investors to get antsy.

And in 2007, with crude prices on the rise, voracious demand for new shares of PetroChina on the Shanghai Stock Exchange caused the Chinese oil and gas company's market value to briefly top $ 1 trillion.

Low oil prices are leaving many oil and gas companies with difficult debt loads, causing them to default at an extraordinary rate.

U.S. gasoline demand is at a record and even with a drop - in consumer confidence, in part caused by an uptick in gas prices, the outlook for demand is still increasing for this summer.

Gasoline prices, however, also reflect demand and follow national trends, such as the impact Hurricane Harvey had, causing gas prices to go up.

Crude oil prices have dropped more than 50 per cent since June to around US$ 50 per barrel, causing some analysts to predict doom and gloom for Canada's oil and gas industry and economy as a whole.

While the code had sustained the spike in transactions caused by the popular CryptoKitties app and the recent popularity of initial coin offerings, recently «something odd has been happening with the estimated gas price,» Johnson told CoinDesk.

A boom in natural gas drilling in the U.S. has caused prices of that commodity to fall precipitously in recent years.

Actually, it's not supply and demand that cause the gas prices to spike.

«Indications that gas prices are likely to rise significantly over the next few years are causing consternation among our members,» he said.

Meanwhile, Bayelsa Elders Council, which met in Yenagoa to review the recent spate of bombings and vandalisation of oil and gas pipelines, called on the perpetrators to desist forthwith in view of inevitable damage it may cause the economy of the states of the region and the nation, especially at a time the country was grappling with falling crude oil price.

Phil glad you raised the energy issue... hope you will recognize that while Faux News blamed Obama for causing high gas prices three years ago they are silent right now in terms of giving him credit for solutions.

The situation has also caused some residents to turn to alternatives such as firewood due to high price of cooking gas.

And that, according a just - issued report by the state comptroller, is because of the drop in gasoline prices, causing significantly less sales tax money to be collected at gas stations in Suffolk, as well as other areas of New York State.

The price of gas that trades on U.S. commodity exchanges has been famously volatile, and multiple spikes in the past decade have caused electricity prices to skyrocket.

Walker said he would emphasize that pipeline with Obama, as well as the state's need to extract natural gas resources and address financial challenges caused by low oil prices.

That summer, the California energy crisis erupted, causing natural gas prices to triple — along with electricity made with gas.

Heck anything from weather to gas prices can cause bad weeks.

It's a noble cause, though one they're probably also driven to pursue by the rising demand for fuel - efficient vehicles spurred by rising gas prices.

Competition from the Koreans and the increasing demand for small cars spurred by high gas prices have caused Honda, Toyota and Nissan to reconsider size.

What causes this large swing in gas prices?

Gas prices have caused plenty of drives grief and that likely won't be changing anytime soon.

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Starting in January, gas prices zoomed up by about 25 percent, causing consumers in some states to pay in excess of $ 4.50 for a gallon of gasoline.

The gas price bump caused by the hurricanes is easing, spokeswomen for AAA and GasBuddy.com say.

Gas prices have hit near $ 20 per gallon prices, causing widespread fear and chaos.

And it would be nice that even if the price of gas were lowered that it wouldn't cause a rush to big cars like it usually does.

The decline of that industry and related employment has been caused by technological changes in mining, and competition from low - priced natural gas for electricity generation, not by environmental regulations.

John Holdren is quoted in the same issue of NATURE (on page 819) as saying a $ 100 tax on carbon will cause the price of gas to rise by 30c.

In other news, reports on summer gas tell us to expect price to remain in the low $ 2 range, but the smaller vehicles that would have been able to take the best advantage of this, have been slammed by the IIHS as being twice as likely to cause death in an auto accident.

Ethanol makers experienced improved financial performance because of changes out of their control - as in the case of natural gas prices falling drastically in response to increased fracking for natural gas production - but lost money because of increased corn prices caused by escalating Chinese grain demand.

If it takes excessively high gas prices to reduce wasteful activities, and all the bad things they cause, so be it.

The nation is once again assessing how best to stimulate the deployment of advanced energy technologies in response to recent high energy prices — caused by the growing world demand for energy, wars in the Middle East, and last year's hurricanes — and concerns about the adverse environmental effects, particularly greenhouse gas emissions, of using conventional fossil energy.

Wholesale electric power prices in the US are starting 2017 by ticking upward, lifted by firmer natural gas prices, which overall has caused coal generation to take some of gas generation's share in the overall fuel mix.

You can replace with combined cycle gas, but that does not cut emissions as much as nuclear and the risk of gas price increases cause a high risk of increases in cost of electricity in the future.

Cheap shale gas flooded the market causing natural gas prices to dive 80 percent since 2008, pricing out coal in electricity supply

For starters, fracking has caused gas prices to drop dramatically.

Dominion proposed its Virginia wind farms back before fracking caused natural gas prices to nosedive, undercutting the economic case for wind.

Because utilities respond to price incentives, this caused fuel - switching of baseload electricity production from coal to natural gas, leading to a time in April 2012 when natural gas equaled coal as an energy source for the first time.

It's already causing hunger and even starvation in poorer countries (the ethanol program driving up grain prices) and deaths from freezing in Europe when people can't afford $ 100 / MMBtu ($ 10 / therm) natural gas and can't burn coal during some of the coldest winters on record.

The 1980s was a period in which the oil and gas industry was battered by extremely low oil prices, causing mass layoffs and an economic tailspin.

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The shortage of natural gas was clear earlier this year when a cold snap caused prices for natural gas to spike and the purchase of Russian LNG to supply the Everest LNG import terminal a few miles north of Boston.

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