Sentences with phrase «imported oil it burned»

The electric company, PREPA, relied on selling bonds to pay for the imported oil it burned at its power plants.

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Meanwhile we keep burning oil while the world develops new energy technologies, china beats us in supercompuing, europe beats us in particle science, we are number 15 in internet access in developed nations, we have to import indians to do our tech jobs in silicon valley....

There are diesel models offered in Europe but after accounting for less one in 20 sales in this country, Audi Australia made the decision not to import any oil - burning A5 Cabs here.

No oil is imported and no fossil fuels are burned when you go whale watching with us.

One reason is the high cost of electricity in Hawaii, where 93 percent of electricity is generated by burning imported oil.

When we burn all that imported oil, we release nearly 2 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, heating up the planet.

Inglis touts a carbon tax as a classic win - win - win because it makes the nation less reliant on oil imports from enemies, creates homegrown clean technology jobs and cleans up air sullied with pollutants from burning fossil fuels.

Same thing for imported oil that's shipped thousands of miles from foreign countries, burning dirty bunker fuel and diesel fuel, a major cause of black carbon soot.

There are other issues that are important to a lot of people and their numbers are increasing as they learn about the other issues: health for humans and animals, job creation, protection of the environment, balance of trade deficit due to imports of oil, preservation of natural resources that have better uses than just being burned, energy independence, global warming, the prestige that early adopters enjoy and the good feeling some people get from knowing that they have made a decision that is good in some way.

Beginning in 1965, electric power companies began building generating plants burning high - sulfur heavy fuel oil made from imported crude.

Supporters of domestic ethanol call it a cleaner - burning fuel than gasoline that offsets oil imports from autocratic regimes abroad and creates American jobs.