Sentences with phrase «how high the gas»

I do mostly city driving and only average about 310 per fill up, and its an 18 gallon tank so I was paying between 45 - 65 a fill up, depending on how high the gas prices were.

We all know how fast and how high gas prices have risen.

Not exact matches

For its part, the oil and gas industry, by pouring investment into the oilsands with little concern for how it's going to get the oil out to markets, «is playing a high - stakes game of chicken,» Cann adds.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

But the month also brought high gasoline prices, raising questions about how the industry's recovery could be affected if Middle East turmoil keeps gas prices high.

The economy is bad, gas prices are high, food prices are rising and many green families may be wondering how they can afford organics, costlier natural items, and some of those green gadgets that cost more now and end up helping you save later.

How about doing us all a favor an approve some natural gas pipelines so our heating bills aren't so high?

Nor will anything be said about how The Netherlands has very effectively managed to incentivise the exploitation of small natural gas fields while maintaining an ETR as high as Norway's (58 per cent in 2012), or about how Denmark re-structured and part - nationalised the Danish Sole Concession in 2003 (the latter measure effective in full upon expiry of the original term in 2012).

Rochester, NY — With the possibility of heavy rain and flooding as Tropical Storm Lee bears down on the Northeast, NYSEG encourages customers in flood - prone areas — and even customers who experience persistent basement flooding — to consider how their electricity and natural gas services could be affected by high water.

New congestion tolling, higher sales and gas taxes, and increased licensing fees are among a list of ideas presented Friday on how to help fund Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's proposed $ 100 billion overhaul of Connecticut's aging transportation infrastructure.

Spills from oil and gas operations can contaminate local water and soil with high levels of toxic chemicals, salts and radioactivity, but in many cases there is insufficient information to determine how long ago the spill occurred and identify its source.

If they can figure out how to make large quantities of the stuff, the material could spark the development of high - capacity gas tanks and propel wider adoption of natural gas — powered vehicles.

«The pollution question in China is huge so they will shift more towards gas for transportation and in power, no matter how high the price is,» Ian Taylor, chief executive of Swiss trading house Vitol, told Reuters.

Logically, say Howarth and other researchers interested in how much methane leaks to the atmosphere, a higher lost and unaccounted for percentage would mean more gas is escaping the system and warming the planet.

«Gut reaction: Smart pill smells out the body's fiber factor: First trials of smart gas sensing pills reveal how low and high - fiber diets affect gut.»

Scientists figured out more than a decade ago how to make this specialized form of light through a process known as «high harmonic generation,» or HHG, which shifts laser light to much shorter wavelengths and shorter pulses by shining it through a cloud of gas.

He says it's very hard to predict how the gas will behave at higher temperatures.

How this cold gas — the raw material for star formation in galaxies — can be accelerated to such high speeds had remained a mystery.

The most contentious issue this year was whether to highlight economic groupings of nations, such as high or low income, and illustrations showing how each group was contributing to the growth of greenhouse gas emissions were particularly controversial.

The new calculations incorporate a better understanding of the meteor's angle of impact, the composition of the rocks and how much gas would make it high enough into the atmosphere to influence climate.

While gas is launched out of the quasar at very high temperatures, there is enough time for some of it to cool through radiative cooling — similar to how the Earth cools down on a cloudless night

The amount of oxygen in a galaxy is determined primarily by three factors: how much oxygen comes from large stars that end their lives violently in supernova explosions — a ubiquitous phenomenon in the early Universe, when the rate of stellar births was dramatically higher than the rate in the Universe today; how much of that oxygen gets ejected from the galaxy by so - called «super winds,» which propel oxygen and other interstellar gases out of galaxies at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour; and how much pristine gas enters the galaxy from the intergalactic medium, which doesn't contain much oxygen.

This study examines how substituting biofuels for gasoline may increase greenhouse gas emissions as farmers worldwide respond to higher prices and convert forest and grassland to new cropland to replace the grain or cropland diverted to biofuels.

As the top of its class for on road and off road, the highest rating for snow plowing, best - in - class gas tow rating, and the highest 5th wheel towing capacity of 30,000 pounds, there's no question how for the last 30 years the RAM has been the most common pickup still on the road.

It's obviously dependent on how much I charge in the remainder of the year, what I charge on (the card has higher rates on gas, grocery, and drugstore purchases), and the like.

Much less challenging, and high profile, is the need, in a world heading toward nine billion people, to figure out how to make everything that's been learned about drought, floods, and other climate - related risks useful to the majority of the human population — people in Niger and Bangladesh who face such risks every day right now, with or without whatever climate destabilization is coming from the ongoing buildup of greenhouse gases.

The news comes a week after DEC Commissioner Joseph Martens announced that the agency will turn part of the review over to the Department of Health Commissioner Nirav Shah to address persistent questions about how shale gas development and high volume hydraulic fracturing will affect public health in communities where it is allowed.

Unlike other calculators, this tool calculates the net present value cost of ownership for any car, discounting future gas savings, and determines how long one must own a high efficiency vehicle for it to make economic sense via fuel savings.

«This bill will pave the way for a House - Senate conference to discuss both reforming how taxpayer dollars are spent on federal infrastructure programs, and also meaningful solutions that would address high gas prices and create jobs by permanently removing government barriers to American energy production.»

Of course after that you won't get any free oil — no matter how high the investments prices at the gas station will keep rising over decades to come.

Judith's point about the warm phase of the PDO from 1976 - 1998 is a good one, and the question quite germain to trying to understand how much of that period was anthropogenic versus PDO, but the more important point is actually how much is the PDO (and by extension, the nature of the ENSO cycle) being influenced by the highest GH gas concentrations in millions of years.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

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.

Beatrice Bedeschi discusses how high rates of renewable generation drove electricity prices on the Italian power exchange to zero in June while the gas market faces low storage levels compared to previous years.

The pattern of warming that we have observed, in which warming has occurred in the lower portions of the atmosphere (the troposphere) and cooling has occurred at higher levels (the stratosphere), is consistent with how greenhouse gases work — and inconsistent with other factors that can affect the global temperature over many decades, like changes in the sun's energy.

I look forward to your explanation of how Maxwell's Equations are modified in vertical gravitational fields, so that we can not actually see things like the sun because all those photons must experience the exact same gravitational thermal lapse that a column of adiabatic gas 150 million kilometers high would.

Once you've figured out how to explain how a gas that — you admit — can have a higher entropy than the state you claim is maximum entropy.

So explain how the silver wire has precisely the same conductivity to the gas at low pressure at the top of the tube as it does to the gas at high pressure at the base of the tube.

Surely the hurdle for cosmic rays should, if anything, be higher as the science behind how greenhouse gases is well understood but the mechanism (apart from same vague theories about cloud seeding) for GCR is not?

Its hard for me to imagine how someone is going to suck out an equivalent 4 inch thick layer across the North Slope and capture the gas before the hydrate starts outgassing like crazy when it gets exposed to higher temperatures.

Todd Woody's best - in - show coverage of the clean energy scene (which now appears at his Fortune - based blog Green Wombat, Grist, and The New York Times) continues today with an intriguing story reporting how California has begun installing high tech greenhouse gas detection meters across the state.

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In particular, depending mainly on (i) exactly how much abatement might be required over 2019 - 23, (ii) the amount and availability of combined - cycle gas - turbine (CCGT) generation capacity with the required efficiency levels, and (iii) the evolution of commodity prices between now and 2021, the carbon price required to plug the supply gap could be lower or higher than the levels we have imputed from our modelling of the supply - demand dynamics in the EU - ETS over 2019 - 23, and the fuel - switching price levels implied by current forward curves.

Notice how the high oil and gas scenario (CPPHOGR), which assumes enhanced domestic fossil fuel production, compares to the one where CPP goals are extended to 2040 (CPPEXT).

He is the lead or coauthor of several Breakthrough publications, including Coal Killer: How Natural Gas Fuels the Clean Energy Revolution, Beyond Boom and Bust: Putting Clean Tech on a Path to Subsidy Independence and Our High - Energy Planet He is also co-director of Breakthrough Generation, the Breakthrough Institute's annual summer policy fellowship, which brings together some of the brightest young thinkers in the world to work together researching policy, politics, and technology.

So they can not understand heat transfer in our atmosphere unless they understand how real gases expand and condense and move in the fluid medium that these are under gravity, becoming lighter and heavier than air when heated or cooled forming areas of low and high pressure.

Then there is the off - the - shelf case that uses currently available technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as rapidly as possible along a continuum between the current level and up to 560 parts per million (ppm), twice the preindustrial level, that produces average temperatures between 3 and 4 degrees higher than preindustrial levels depending on how rapidly the greenhouse levels can be brought down.

Then it becomes a matter of «well how do you know the magic gas isn't making it hotter, although the thermometer only goes half as high, because if you average that, it really does make it warmer?»

The basic physics of greenhouse gases are simply not one of those things that are not well - enough understood and if you don't understand how greenhouse gases work you can't possibly move on to any reasonable debate about other phenomena which can and do (IMO) largely negate the effects of increasing greenhouse gases and leave us in a situation where the modest increase in carbon dioxide has vast beneficial effect by warming the planet at high latitudes where warming is welcome, not warming it at low latitudes where it is already warm enough, increasing the growth rate of green plants, and decreasing the water needs of green plants at the same time.

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