Sentences with phrase «in oil dependency»

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The kingdom has vowed to implement widespread economic reforms in a bid to reduce its huge dependency on oil, which accounts for as much as 90 % of government revenues.

Saudi Arabia has plans to sell about 5 % of Saudi Aramco, the state - owned oil company, through an IPO in 2018 and expects to generate up to $ 100 billion for the country's Vision 2030 program, designed to shift the Saudi economy away from oil dependency towards tech and entertainment services.

India should replace its dependence on Iranian oil through cooperation with America in nuclear - power production and cease its dependency on Russian airframe technology by buying advanced American military aircraft.

In the early 1970s, declining domestic production and America's ever increasing thirst for oil made dependency on imports a necessity, whilst the OPEC Revolution and the 1973 Arab oil embargo seemed to also make dependency a serious threat to national security.

Despite the international shale oil boom extracting natural gas with hydrofracking technologies, which most electric utilities, including the local ones, supply to customers as a major part of their power supply, the shift away from petroleum dependency has made remarkable progress in recent years through strategic incentives like the one which prompted this vote in Olive.

He added that Buhari had succeeded in repositioning the economy from dependency on oil and focusing on other sources of revenue such as agriculture.

«Our dependency on oil is dangerous and short - sighted,» US energy secretary Stephen Chu wrote in Newsweek in April.

Imagine a future in which human beings have become immune to all viruses, in which bacteria can custom - produce everyday items, like a drinking cup, or generate enough electricity to end oil dependency.

Indeed, the feature is set in the same post-apocalyptic world of the latter short in which oil dependency and food supplies plummeting create a cut - throat world that is nearly impossible to survive in.

In addition to savings at the pump, hybrid vehicles can help reduce air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and dependency on oil.

In his weekly internet and radio address on Saturday, President Obama focused on the ideal of utilizing fuel efficient technology as a means to lower the cost of energy, as well as decrease the dependency the US has on foreign sources of oil.

In his latest project entitled Western Flag, Irish conceptual artist John Gerrard created a simulated flag of black smoke as a critical homage to the United States» oil dependency.

President Bush, while being Texas Governor, approved and allowed development of new alternative energy solutions such as Wind Turbines in areas, producing much of cheap needed energy and detaching from foreign oil dependency.

This is one dollar for every man, woman and child in the U.S. — a small price to pay for helping to break the back of our oil dependency — and curb the dangerous effects of global climate change.

And so even if we reduce our oil dependency, and we're producing all these great electric cars, we're going to have to have a plan to change the way we generate electricity in America so that it's cleaner and safer and healthier.

Loosely relevant, but the UK government has been reported to be giving higher priority to get the UK off oil dependency for its energy needs as a matter of national urgency, not provoked by climate change but by ongoing events in the Middle East.

I can't see any negatives in investing in infrastructure that could reduce dependency on foreign oil and reduce greenhouse emissions at the expense of a little convenience.

Climate and energy policies are well connected — reducing oil depletion and dependency should be achieved through deploying renewable sources and in effect will bring reducing of carbon dioxide — thus what climate policies were (yet) not able to bring, peak oil and high oil prices (however with more negative impacts, like social unrest and geo - political instability) certainly will.

Western and industrialized nations have, in addition to a dependency on massive quantities of oil, an ever - growing need for more and more electricity.

Other fracking advocates in the U.S. argue that the industry will reduce the nation's dependency on foreign oil.

They have understood that all these measures taken to reduce coal and oil dependency are very much in vain, and, not only that but they provide lots of new opportunities for oil companies.

The embargo highlighted national dependencies of imported fuels, the importance of oil reserves, economic exposure and made the consumer suddenly realise the cost of heating in their uninsulated buildings.

In doing so, it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve the economics of the electricity industry, and reduce the U.S. dependency on foreign oil.

There are these mythical house batteries that are supposed to be coming, but in the mean time I'm tired of reading about removing dependency on oil, coal and natural gas.

Energy Department Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Renewable Energy Seminar Amman - Jordan 27 - 28 March 2012 Current Energy Challenges Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Current Energy Challenges Jordan is facing a real challenge in securing its energy supply due to: Almost no indigenous energy resources High dependency on imported energy (97 % imports in 2011) Oil prices up (energy / Biofuels production).

And they warn that investing billions of dollars in oil transportation will lock the U.S. into continued dependency on an increasingly heavy type of imported crude that will drive up emissions both from the foreign producer and the domestic refiner.

First up would be incentives for things like low - emission cars, which help reduce oil - dependency, reduces health problems in cities, etc..

Renergie looks forward to working closely with the Obama - Biden administration to: (a) reduce U.S. dependency on imported oil; (b) repeal the ethanol import tariff; (c) maximize the environmental benefits of ethanol - blended transportation fuels; and (d) create jobs in rural areas of the United States by growing ethanol demand, specifically hydrous ethanol demand, beyond the 10 % blend market.

For the U.S., the pipeline is a strategic way to reduce its petroleum dependency on the Persian Gulf by tapping oil reserves in former Soviet states while bypassing Iran and Russia.

Even if one buys into the premise that the government should be forcing businesses and consumers to alter their behavior in the name of fighting climate change (or «oil dependency»), it is still an unavoidable conclusion that CAFE standards are absurd.

Officially a protest event — against oil dependency, and our vulnerability to motorists among other issues — and a public show of support for immodesty, the riders were also there in celebration of a city smitten with cycling.

The report highlights how Ontario can save billions on oil and create jobs by investing in urban infill, transit, vehicle efficiency and low carbon fuels, and avoid dependency on tar sands oil.

Just a decade ago, the main topic of US energy policy discussion was the apparently unstoppable growth in oil and gas imports, and what it meant for energy dependency.

Reid calls for investing in «job - creating clean energy projects... rather that increasing out dependency on unsustainable supplies of dirty and polluting oil.»

His critical thinking has driven people around the globe — from world leaders to the average Joe — to think differently about energy and its role in some of our biggest problems: climate change, oil dependency, national security, economic health, and depletion of natural resources.

PGR RI hopes to help prepare for and welcome 10,000 plug - in EVs to the state by 2015 in order to reduce Rhode Island's carbon emissions, lessen its dependency on oil and alleviate the range anxiety of driving an EV.

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The most recent energy sector development strategies until 2030 do foresee maintaining the dependency on oil shale use in power production.

Martin Luther King paved the way for Barack Obama, the modern Elvis, Beatlemania, Barack Obama, whose message of hope and change, to beat back climate change, to end our dependency on «the tyranny of oil», to end the war in Iraq led to his victory in Iowa last night, and has him poised to be the next President of the United States.

The Crown Prince's renewed interest in the tech sector comes as part of his effort to reduce Saudi dependency on the oil industry, as part of the kingdom's Vision 2030 plan.