Sentences with phrase «high energy prices do»

Not hope that the recession or high energy prices do the job for us.

Unless a budget constraint is binding, higher energy prices do not influence energy consumption of individuals or companies with some slack.

Not exact matches

Experts say such dismal North American performances are a symptom of an industry trying to do too much with too little in the face of high energy prices and a teetering global economy.

The Fed did nod to a recent increase in inflation but said it was linked to higher energy prices, adding that inflation expectations have remained stable.

«If oil prices do weaken into next year, and... [the] supply - demand analysis we «ve done tells us that, these stocks should do relatively better than most of the smaller, higher - beta energy stocks,» he said.

So, if one does want to lower emissions, the choice is not between a carbon price and nothing, but between a carbon price and regulations, technology subsidies, higher - cost renewable energy, or the long list of other tools.

Which brings me to the deeper reason you will need not simply to address food prices but to make the reform of the entire food system one of the highest priorities of your administration: unless you do, you will not be able to make significant progress on the health care crisis, energy independence or climate change.

Those who are fighting clean energy focus on high prices, but at the same time they don't talk about the real costs for the people who live with those dirty industries.

High yield does represent a rare, income - producing bright spot and stabilizing energy prices are supporting the asset class.

I would also enroll in a DRIP for a REIT if I had one but they haven't been attractive enough for me to buy them yet... Stocks that I don't want to enroll in a DRIP for are stocks like energy companies (energy prices and to a lesser extent energy stock prices are too volatile and the stocks are also fairly high - yielding and I have too much of my portfolio in energy stocks already).

It was easy in 2006 to be angry that you didn't put all your money into energy stocks right before oil prices blew sky - high: «I knew it!»

Unlike high yield, the Energy sector is only 2 % of the index, the beginning of year drag of this index had more to do with the amount of issuance and the concern over the lack of covenant protections incorporated in the issuance than Energy prices.

I find that having to educate others on the concept comes with too high of a time and energy price and some are so resistent to the concept that it just doesn't pay to try to explain it to them.

Higher energy prices and higher taxes will doHigher energy prices and higher taxes will dohigher taxes will do that.

Don't forget, however, that even in this time of very high oil prices energy in all is still less than 12 % of national GNP or budgets (up perhaps fro 9 %).

In a world where the long - term trend is toward higher oil prices, how does a government and society avoid the «shock and trance» response to short - term wiggles in energy costs?

In the long run I don't think we will succeed in getting transportation of oil by trying to stop oil production on a site - by - site basis, we are going to have to put a high price on transportation fuels that have high carbon emissions and get much more serious about driving energy innovation they can get the transportation system off carbon.

Clearly, the EU and China are doing far better than the U.S. Note that I am not a big believer in the likelihood of carbon taxes or a cap and trade system bringing enough renewables online quickly enough to save the climate just due to investors reactions to higher energy prices.

But, drops in temperatures outside don't have to translate into higher energy prices.

After all, the critics say, lower - income households spend a higher percentage of their budgets on energy than rich ones do, and the price of energy produced from carbon - intensive fuels is likely to rise.

In so doing, Mann and his colleagues promoted laws, treaties and regulatory schemes that imposed higher prices and greater government / activist control over energy use, economic growth, and virtually everything modern societies eat, drive, make, ship and do.

Because ethanol has one - third less energy than gasoline and does not make up the difference in price, the higher the ethanol blend, the more money you spend on each mile driven.

How do we reduce carbon emissions in the absence of high carbon prices and what strategies can accommodate developing countries» overriding need for inexpensive energy?

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL FIRST TO STATE THE OBVIOUS: with all the grandstanding about what to do about high prices at the pump, in today's NY Times Lead Editorial «Energy Follies» August 4, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/­2008/­08/­04/­opinion/­04mon1.html here's something we haven't seen said ANYWHERE: «plug - in hybrid cars that over time could actually make a difference in fuel prices.»

While OPEC countries have done their best to keep oil prices high by cutting back on production, America's energy wealth and free markets have frustrated these efforts.

As to the perpetual boogeyman of higher electricity prices, the one study that's been done (by consultancy Flink Energy) found that Oregon's legislation is likely to slightly reduce rates.

Germany is paying extremely high prices for energy today because they are trying to just go renewable, and they didn't turn to nuclear, so they are having a challenge finding a reliable source for base - load power.

Societies do sometimes opt to pay slightly higher energy prices for cleaner air, domestic energy production, or other «intangible» goals.

Democratic governments do not have the influence needed to force consumers to pay for much higher priced wind and solar energy against this competition any more than they could prohibit alcohol production and use by humans.

Solar can't produce electricity at night, but as we've seen in Germany and Australia it doesn't take a lot of solar capacity to start pushing down electricty prices during the day and that is very bad for the economics of nuclear power as it's a high capital cost, low fuel cost source of energy and reducing output during periods of low demand doesn't do much to reduce costs.

While natural gas is just over 5 per cent lower than wind costs, wind energy doesn't face the commodity price and carbon risks that will nudge natural gas costs higher in the future.

Often, the debate is presented as if the only question is how high, and how fast does the carbon price need to climb in order to substitute existing fossil fuel technologies with clean energy technologies, whilst also maintaining economic growth.

As a result, without effective mitigation, total energy - related carbon dioxide emissions (including transformations, own use and losses) will rise from 26.1 GtCO2 (7.2 GtC) in 2004 to around 37 — 40 GtCO2 (11.1 GtC) in 2030 (IEA, 2006b; Price and de la Rue du Can, 2006), possibly even higher (Fisher, 2006), assuming modest energy - efficiency improvements are made to technologies currently in use.

Energy poverty is spread across the developing world, but it is particularly severe in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 620 million people live without access to electricity and for those who do have access to modern energy, very high prices, insufficiency and unreliability is a constant pEnergy poverty is spread across the developing world, but it is particularly severe in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 620 million people live without access to electricity and for those who do have access to modern energy, very high prices, insufficiency and unreliability is a constant penergy, very high prices, insufficiency and unreliability is a constant plague.

While DECC predict that climate change and energy policies will cause gas prices to go up by 18 % and electricity prices by 33 % by 2020, they estimate (as of July 2010) that because of reductions in energy use «compared to the counterfactual scenario in which climate change and energy policies do not have an impact on energy bills, on average, domestic energy bills will be 1 % higher in 2020.»

The higher price for energy does mean that more expensive methods of extraction may become viable, but that is not a diseconomy of scale in any sense.

For instance, many renewable portfolio standards (RPS policies) includes one or more «cost containment» provisions limiting the ultimate cost of compliance to ensure they do not expend the limited public tolerance for higher energy prices.

It is because so little energy is being used, and because alternatives are ruled out ab initio (the model contains no nuclear power, and no technology for storing away carbon emissions from fossil fuels; natural gas prices rise strongly and coal plants are retired well before they are clapped out) that the model ends up with such a high percentage of renewables; indeed given the premise it's slightly surprising it doesn't end up with even more.

We do not know how these energy - using technologies will be transformed over the next 40 years, how rapidly these transformative changes will occur and be disseminated, and how patterns of energy - using behaviour will change in response to considerably higher prices.

This occurs because higher prices encourage all possible avenues of reducing energy consumption — which efficiency standards do not.

Energy companies don't want to take the blame for high energy pEnergy companies don't want to take the blame for high energy penergy prices.

However, I do think that the rise at the end of this series could have something to do with a response by producers to high energy prices.