Sentences with phrase «high energy costs»

Keep these tips in mind, and consider sending them to homeowners and clients who are concerned about the high energy costs of entertaining.

Doug Duncan, chief economist, Mortgage Bankers Association: «High energy costs are less of a concern on the residential side than on the commercial side, at least in the short term.

High energy costs make Mexico's close proximity to the United States more advantageous than shipping goods across the Pacific Ocean.

Two primary factors are contributing to Mexico's attractiveness: high energy costs and costlier Chinese labor.

• Decreased overhead costs by 60 % by determining high energy costs during summer months and suggesting use of alternative energy.

These powerful dedicated computers are expensive and complicated to operate (mainly due to high energy costs), making them an unrealistic tool for the average user.

High energy costs, not the drought gripping more than half the country, may take a bite out of Americans» grocery bills, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Sunday.

Unfortunately this is a catch 22, farmer can't get the returns they need to support these change until high energy costs increase the prices they get a market!

What appears as a reduction in cost of renewables may be simply an artefact of relocating production in the East — a phenomenon which is exacerbated by high energy costs in the UK / EU.

The research, cited by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, says that while rice is a staple food for more than half the world's population, growing it is becoming less profitable because of the costs of labour, shortage of water and high energy costs.

While Mexico doesn't subsidize solar, it has net - metering, and high energy costs in many regions where solar is competitive (in good part because the country gets so much sun).

Enemy (Big Business) + intention (self enrichment) → harm (high energy costs) to victims (vulnerable) 2.

Belgium has finally found the culprit in its high energy costs and CO2 emissions which translates directly into loss of money and global warming.

Brown coal also is cheap coal, increasing its appeal at a time when high energy costs are roiling Germany.

«EPA is excited to help the medical community reduce their high energy costs by highlighting for them more efficient refrigeration products and to recognize leading manufacturers eager to design their products with the latest efficient technologies,» said Ann Bailey, Branch Chief of the ENERGY STAR Products Program.

High energy costs «would take the legs out from any kind of economic recovery.»

The U.S. Congress begins a summer of important debates on the future of American energy policy — debates that the Group of Eight industrialized nations can help shape at their summit in Germany this week by focusing on the devastating impact high energy costs and climate change have on the world's most vulnerable populations.

State Senator Joseph Griffo, Chair of the Senate Energy Committee, said, «As many New Yorkers struggle to afford the high energy costs of their homes, this funding to build new energy - efficient housing will help lower - income families save money while protecting them from sporadic spikes in utility rates.»

The saddest result of policies based on bad science to achieve environmental dreams of a fossil fuel free world is the effects of high energy costs that inevitably follows on the poor and middle class families.

High energy costs reflect political failures not shortages.

And while it's certainly not good news, it's clear that climate impacts remain one of many elements in the mix driving tensions in poor places — ranging from bad governance to high food prices to, yes, high energy costs.

We're already seeing extremely high energy costs, food shortages around the globe (which can be tied, at least in part, to biofuel production) and droughts, floods, etc., from global warming.

These technologies however entail high energy costs, mainly in aeration and pumping, and an elevated economic cost in treating the sludge left over from the treatment process.

Driving demand, he says, are high energy costs and individuals «realizing that global warming is real.»

«Our once proud state has become a laughing stock around the country, with the highest taxes, the worst business climate, high energy costs, a failing transportation and infrastructure system, failing schools and rising unemployment in every region of the state, except New York City,» DeFrancisco said.

DeFrancisco said New York has been viewed negatively because of high taxes, failing schools, infrastructure, the transportation system and high energy costs.

2) New York's high energy costs have been discussed over and over and over again as a disincentive to business location in NYS.

The majority of renewable energy is built upstate and power is at a relatively low cost,» Christian said, referring to the high energy costs of New York City and Long Island.

This steady decline of the bitcoin price began to question the profitability of big mining operations due to high energy costs.

Given its multi-year recession, high unemployment, dwindling population, high energy costs (the list goes on), it seems clear to us that Puerto Rico is in no position to grow itself out of debt any time soon.

This also allowed the expansion of renewable energy that could compete only at high energy costs.

Higher energy costs are a weight on the economy that may lower currency values.

The rise in inflation in 2007 and into the early part of this year was not confined to food and energy, even though higher energy costs certainly were at work.

To at least a small extent that would mean higher heating costs for U.S. consumers and higher energy costs for U.S. producers.

A top issue was higher energy costs, which concerned about 53 percent of the business owners.

Much of this rise is due to higher energy costs, and underlying inflation remains around 1 1/4 per cent.

Consumer price inflation edged up to 2.3 per cent over the year to September, largely reflecting higher energy costs; the core measure has eased further to a year - ended rate of 1.2 per cent.

Glass producers are expected to gradually recoup higher energy costs through the priceadjustment formulas contained in many of their supply agreements with customers, S&P stated.

You're reckless, very reckless to think we can shut Indian Point and NOT replace any of its generating capacity without rolling blackouts and higher energy costs.

In Scotland, the longer heating season and consequent higher energy costs exacerbate the scale of fuel poverty and emphasise the need for additional support for households in Scotland in terms of both energy efficiency funding and support with fuel costs.

Keep paying your twenty first highest energy costs in the nation and quit complaining.

Has he seen where we are economically - the loss in jobs, the highest taxes, the highest regulatory burden, some of the highest energy costs in the nation?»

It would require utilities to purchase power from nuclear facilities, and those costs would then be passed along to customers, who now pay some of the highest energy costs in the nation.

ALBANY, NY (11/08/2010)(readMedia)-- Governor David A. Paterson today continued his campaign urging the Federal government to fully fund the Federal Low - Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) at last year's level of $ 5.1 billion to help families cope with cold winter temperatures and higher energy costs.

«The less efficient a reaction is, the higher the energy cost to recycle carbon dioxide, so having an efficient reaction is crucial,» Zapol said.

«To impose substantially higher energy costs at a time when we're having a difficult time keeping jobs is a recipe for shear economic disaster.

«After allowing for the higher energy costs faced by consumers, this action would raise global economic welfare by $ 1.8 trillion (2.2 percent of global GDP),» the analysis finds.

«This situation translates into some of the highest energy costs in the nation.»

The Beacon Hill Institute publishes a study (using discredited analysis) claiming that a state's renewable standards lead to higher energy costs, as it did in states like Maine and Ohio and Wisconsin and Arizona.

Likewise, weight - bearing impact will have a higher physiological demand, thus higher energy cost.