Sentences with phrase «in fuel shortages»

In all but four cases, the scenarios resulted in fuel shortages that required rolling blackouts to address — a potential argument for keeping Millstone operational.

Just like you're forced to burn some important parts of your home in a fuel shortage... these stress hormones force your body to break down its healthy organ and muscle tissue to use as fuel and to keep you alive.

Not exact matches

Actual operational and financial results of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines and ExpressJet will likely also vary, and may vary materially, from those anticipated, estimated, projected or expected for a number of other reasons, including, in addition to those identified above: the challenges and costs of integrating operations and realizing anticipated synergies and other benefits from the acquisition of ExpressJet; the challenges of competing successfully in a highly competitive and rapidly changing industry; developments associated with fluctuations in the economy and the demand for air travel; the financial stability of SkyWest's major partners and any potential impact of their financial condition on the operations of SkyWest, SkyWest Airlines, or ExpressJet; fluctuations in flight schedules, which are determined by the major partners for whom SkyWest's operating airlines conduct flight operations; variations in market and economic conditions; significant aircraft lease and debt commitments; residual aircraft values and related impairment charges; labor relations and costs; the impact of global instability; rapidly fluctuating fuel costs, and potential fuel shortages; the impact of weather - related or other natural disasters on air travel and airline costs; aircraft deliveries; the ability to attract and retain qualified pilots and other unanticipated factors.

The now - repealed U.S. oil export ban dated back to an era of feared fuel shortages after Arab members of OPEC imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for U.S. support of the Israeli military.

Scott urged gas stations in evacuation zones to stay open as long as possible, and said that millions of gallons of fuel have been delivered by tanker trucks to areas with shortages.

Another set of numbers fueling the immigration debate, say experts, is the shortage of workers in the United States.

Jerry Jana, Director of Economic Affairs for Malawi's new ruling party (following former President Bingu wa Mutharika's unexpected death in April) has said that long - term projects like the Nsanje port would be shelved while the government dealt with more pressing issues, like the country's fuel shortages and foreign exchange, according to Nyasa Times.

The spill on Sept. 9 led to long lines at the pump and a shortage of fuel in southeastern states like Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama.

If refineries take too long to come back on line, there could be shortages of fuel oils in some markets.

Due to the blackout, many residents are relying on small gas - fed generators, and fuel is running out (though authorities in Puerto Rico insist that it's a distribution problem, not a shortage).

Recently, increases in competition and price have begun to force prospective homeowners to find affordable real estate outside of the Greater Toronto Area, while others are opting to wait on the sidelines for price increases to slow — choosing to rent or renovate — further fuelling inventory shortages across the region.

The fuel and gas shortages that rapidly grew last year are exacerbating the financial crisis in the country.

The lack of fire damage in the crash is leading authorities to think the issue may have been fuel shortage.

Recently generators at seven health centres in the besieged Gaza Strip stopped working due to a fuel shortage and Gaza's largest hospital cancelled all medical procedures because hospital cleaning staff went on strike.

«There has been political turmoil for the past one - and - a-half years that has resulted in electricity supply shortage, resulting in an increase in fuel prices,» Joy Singhal, Oxfam's deputy director in Yemen, said on Wednesday.

The shortage, exacerbated by the big LNG export plants off Gladstone in Queensland that have been set up during the past few years, has fuelled plans for two rival LNG import projects for the eastern seaboard of Australia, by AGL Energy in Victoria and the Andrew Forrest - backed Australian Industrial Energy in NSW.

For example, a disruption in the major transport routes into Sydney from a bushfire or fuel shortages could leave Sydney with only days worth of fresh produce.

On the other hand, the state official said, «This will actually avoid the sticker shock that ratepayers experience every time there is a fuel shortage, a power plant goes offline or there is a spike in energy costs.»

New York has nearly 8,600 fewer active educators than it did five years ago, and the number of SUNY students majoring in education has dropped 50 percent since 2007, fueling fears of a looming teacher shortage across the state.

This will go a long way in ensuring crude oil get to the refineries for refining and subsequent supply to Nigerians to ameliorate the current fuel shortage.

This sparked a brief Conservative lead in the opinion polls — the first time in eight years — but once the protests and consequent fuel shortages ended, Labour led the opinion polls once more.

The Senior Staff of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST) are predicting a shortage in fuel following what they say is the continuous interference by a cartel in the company's activities.

Considering what is possible and what is desirable in our energy future, Smil argues that human dependence on fossil fuels must be reduced not because of impending resource shortages but because of the environmental, economic, and political problems caused by our current consumption.

These include the ability to bring new, innovative products to the market; progress in oncology, such as the approval of Genentech's drug Avastin for breast cancer and advances in the use of gene therapy, despite some setbacks; continuing progress in research on stem cells; the emergence of treatments for previously untreated diseases; and solutions for food and fuel shortages, such as biocrops and biofuels.

So not only could the production of corn - based fuels lead to food shortages, experts say, but the process is too inefficient to make a significant dent in our energy needs anyway.

dangers from particulates, dangers from poisons in food and water, dangers from fuel shortages, dangers from war, all of these would ease as we shifted away from this hydrocarbon economy.

This is a process that occurs when the body has a shortage of glucose in the body that it needs to burn for fuel.

For example, in a vitamin K shortage, the body will allocate what little it has to fuel critical metabolism in the liver at the expense of the vitamin's bonebuilding function.

I left off in part 1 emphasizing that the energy shortage in the brain is specific to glucose, and proposing that it would be possible to nourish these starving cells if there were some type of alternative fuel they could use.

If carbohydrate levels are low in the blood, the body will tap into the fat stores for energy, BUT you may actually burn less energy (calories) overall because your body will slower the metabolism in order to adapt to the perceived fuel shortage.

Shortages in many fields and locations across the state have been provoked by a steep decline in candidates preparing to teach, coupled with an increase in demand fueled largely by teacher attrition and schools» reinstatement of previously cut staff positions.

Ofsted's Chief Inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw comments on the growing «brain drain» of classroom talent overseas fuelling teacher shortages in England.

Ford downsized the Mustang to an all new 1974 Ford Mustang II subcompact based on the Pinto that was designed for an era of high gas prices and fuel shortages resulting in 385,993 units produced for the model year.

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The KPGC110 GT - R is also the rarest Skyline produced as Nissan only made 197 cars due to the 1970s fuel shortage that hit all types of sportscar really hard in terms of sales and popularity.

When Charles F. «Boss» Kettering developed fuels that would allow higher compression engines to operate without knocking, it was to maximize fuel efficiency in the face of a gasoline shortage, not to herald the beginning of the muscle car era.

If we make it past SC24 and 25 without reducing CO2 emissions, when AGW takes over again in 20 years, we're royally screwed on two fronts — AGW returning with a vengeance and serious shortages in fuel stocks to make the technological changes without dramatic reductions in lifestyle.

China had seen slowdowns in the growth in electricity supplies recently, often because of shortages of coal or the ability to get the fuel where it was needed.

Which is a good job, given the shortage of high - grade uranium ore, the huge unmanageable risks associated with nuclear plants and nuclear proliferation, the large amounts of embedded carbon in uranium refining and processing (and other GHG emissions from the nuclear industry), and the insanity of developing a huge strategic fuel dependence on countries such as Russia.

Simply look to the post fuel - shortage years (when $ 2 gas nearly crippled the country and gas lines were the norm), we did not slap a tax on fuel during that period to force people to cut back, yet we had a 35 % increase in efficency overall for home heating systems, airlines and transportation industry.

There has been no shortage of public support for unfreezing Ohio's clean energy standards, but behind the scenes, fossil fuel and utility interests have been using money to influence the debate in Columbus.

In this coming century, both economic driven famines from fuel shortages, and from «climate change» (natural and / or anthropogenic) could cause greater famines.

With gasoline prices approaching $ 4 / gallon, fossil fuel shortages, unrest in oil producing regions around the globe and mainstream consumer adoption and adoption of the hybrid electric car (more than 140,000 Prius» sold this year), this story couldn't be more relevant or important.

In a Scientific American article in 2000, two geologists posit that, because humanity has already used about half of the available fossil fuels in the ground, there will soon be a fuel shortagIn a Scientific American article in 2000, two geologists posit that, because humanity has already used about half of the available fossil fuels in the ground, there will soon be a fuel shortagin 2000, two geologists posit that, because humanity has already used about half of the available fossil fuels in the ground, there will soon be a fuel shortagin the ground, there will soon be a fuel shortage.

What's missing from this logic is, we will be spending trillions of dollars on new infrastructure throughout the world in coming decades — the question to ask is whether that spending locks us into current patterns of fossil fuel dependance, inevitable shortages, pollution, war and climate catastrophe.

The fact is that if we can't greatly reduce fossil fuel use by the 2030 - 2040 range, by 2075 be will see a global average temperature rise of 3.5 to 4.0 degrees Celsius, which is also just about the time frame for world phosphate supplies to enter critical shortages that will eventually cut crop yields in half and require twice as much land and water to grow the same yield as previously.

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), the world's largest supply of emergency crude oil, was designed to protect the country from fuel shortages in the event of an emergency.

This summer there were no reports of power failures due to gas shortages despite considerably more gas - powered generation being in the fuel mix reported by NEMWatch on heatwave days.