Sentences with phrase «into fuel cut»

However, the firmware in the ECU might just as well be written such that it decides to go into fuel cut just to be safe.

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The banks says the long - oversupplied oil market is tightening up more quickly than expected as global economic growth fuels demand and output cuts by OPEC, Russia and several other producers eat into the world's crude stockpiles.

Despite attempts to cut costs, the Hong Kong carrier is still locked into costly fuel hedging contracts and faces tough competition.

The pilot of the helicopter that plunged into the East River told cops he believes that a loose tether on one of his passengers» harnesses cut off the fuel switch, law - enforcement sources said, but one expert questioned that scenario, calling it «highly implausible.»

A leakage of gas from one of two gas fuel stations in the enclave around the Atomic Junction reportedly triggered fire, which extended to an adjoining Total Filling Station causing two explosions that sent fireballs into the skies.Hundreds of passengers, traders and residents in and around the Atomic Junction area fled their homes and workplaces for safety as the explosions lit the skies and caused severe heat waves.Electricity supply to most part of the area was cut off as some transformers were affected.

Mr Osborne announced an increase in the threshold before workers start paying income tax to # 8,105, financial support for first - time home buyers, a two per cent cut to corporation tax this year, a tax on private jets, a clampdown on non-doms, the introduction of # 140 flat - rate state pension, a review into a merger of national insurance and income tax and a fair fuel stabiliser, including a 1p cut on fuel duty.

Kerry Kennedy last night apologized for the dangerous, allegedly Ambien - fueled Westchester highway ride in which she swerved across lanes and cut off several cars before slamming her Lexus into a tractor - trailer and fleeing the scene.

She also said that citizens should realize that whether they are cutting down trees or burning fossil fuels, they are putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than plants can remove.

His team is exploring aircraft that blend wings and body into a single, unbroken structure that reduces aerodynamic drag, cutting fuel costs and emissions.

A push for oil sands oversight and new climate targets Harper has been a target of environmentalists for most of his tenure — they say he turned Canada into an international pariah by not regulating greenhouse gases from oil and gas, cutting clean energy and climate science programs, withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, «muzzling» scientists, pressing aggressively on Keystone XL and fossil fuels, and allowing the country's emissions trajectory to spiral away from targets under the Copenhagen Accord.

«Turning homes into power stations could cut household fuel bills by more than 60 percent.»

This would send more solar electricity into the grid — which, in turn, should further cut the need for fossil fuels.

In the piece Zuber and Holt wrote, «Federal agencies, with bipartisan support, are the primary investor of cutting - edge basic research that fuels industry's ability to harness that knowledge into innovative products and business.

My own feel for this is that if we do not achieve global agreement and real action on deep cuts in emissions over the next 10 years or so we will get locked into an inappropriate fossil fuel infrastructure until at least mid-century, that will prevent us from capturing CO2 effectively.

When you drastically cut carbs, the body goes into a metabolic state called ketosis, and it begins to burn its own fat for fuel.

It's important to understand that for most people I do not recommend calorie - restricted ketosis — in which you simply cut calories to the point where your body has no choice but to dip into it's own fat as a fuel.

What may have devolved into a Hollywood - manufactured debacle fueled by quick cuts and bogged down in stylistic visuals with no accompanying substance or meaningful context, is instead an exercise in pragmatism, toxic and beneficial.

In an impressive shift away from his usual clean - cut roles, the young Scot plays a corrupt police officer riding a drug - fuelled rollercoaster to mental breakdown, roughing up his boyish good looks into a boozy, sweaty, red - eyed, fuzzy - bearded monster oddly reminiscent of Russell Crowe.

by Walter Chaw Split into three parts, aptly like the anthology horror films The Monsters Club and Trilogy of Terror, Disney's own direct - to - video horrorshow Cinderella II: Dreams Come True reeks of corners cut and the kind of flaccid inspiration fuelled by the urge towards filthy lucre.

The six - grand redline jumps up fast and you're crashing into the 6250 rpm fuel cut long before you're ready to yank the Hurst - like shift lever through its half - inch stroke to second.

My first thought was that the leak could be introducing air into the fuel system, with air bubbles causing the engine to be starved and cut out.

If the MAF sensor is telling the computer no air is getting into the motor - then the computer cuts the fuel.

The ZL1 claws at the black pavement for a second, then tosses us into our Recaro as it hauls toward the end of the strip, shimmying side to side between fuel - cut upshifts.

Why don't they cut on the amount of fuel injected into the engine so as to maintain a proper fuel / air ratio?

The engine does not go into fuel - cut mode nor does it have a hole in the fuel map.

At WOT at higher RPM (I'm guessing near 80 % of redline), the engine will go into what I can only assume is fuel cut mode and the car will coast.

The extra weight cuts into fuel efficiency.

Throwing the shifter into «S» mode cuts into fuel economy, but it does improve throttle response from both a stop and at highway speeds.

In short, the BMW Concept X5 eDrive shows itself to be supremely talented in every way, deftly bringing major advances in cutting fuel consumption and emissions into harmony with state - of - the - art functionality and everyday practicality that never fails to impress.

The fuel savings are gained from use of fuel - efficient direct - injection technology, and engineers cut 8 pounds off the overall engine weight via a thinwall crankcase casting, exhaust headers that are integrated into the cylinder head and changes to the bearings.

While it does heavily benefit fuel economy and doesn't cut into cabin space, the hybrid system has to have some place to store all of those batteries, and unfortunately that place is under the floor of the trunk.

Also in the back of your head is the understanding that mashing the accelerator to keep with the flow of bustling interstate traffic will also cut into your combined fuel economy figures.

«In the past we cut the fueling during shifts, because you don't want a load of unburnt fuel being fired into the catalytic converters.

Some power is cut in the Atkinson cycle, but the computer brain calls it into operation when full potency is not needed, so it's one more clever trick eking out mildly improved fuel economy short of hybridization which produces even better gains.

When a security breach at Hoover Dam takes all the U.S. hydroelectric power stations offline the day after a category five hurricane hits the Gulf of Mexico, cutting off electricity to millions and threatening an already compromised fuel supply, Cash figures it's time to chase those white lines home to Tennessee.By the time he hits Chicago, the lights are out across the country, throwing America into a new dark age in which only the strong and the prepared will survive.READER NOTE: This is Part One of the (separately available) three - part novel Long Haul...

One way to cut into your high gas expense is to get cash back or rewards for the money you spend on fuel.

Again, this advice may have been true when cars were equipped with carburetors, since shifting into neutral cuts off fuel to the engine.

Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to crawl back into my cave and lament how everything from my childhood is now retro nostalgia fuel rather than the cutting edge of cool.

The space resonates with the muffled sputter of the coconut - fuelled generator, which provides energy for the projection of fast - paced footage: rocks and coconuts are split, trees felled and an open - cut mine is exploded into being; a bulldozer chases a panicked man.

(As Andrew Yager of another United Nations division told me in a chat on a bus later in the night, the billion or so deeply impoverished people who have to walk each day into a forest to cut and tote firewood lose productivity and risk their lives and health for the sake of fuel.)

ProPublica has published a good update on concerns that existing practices for extracting and piping natural gas, through leakage, substantially cut into the fuel's substantial greenhouse - gas advantage over coal.

The move comes because the company has made big inroads into its original target by cutting aircraft emissions intensity by 13.8 % efficiency and improving vehicle fuel efficiency by 16.6 % up until the end of the 2011 financial year.

So why, when Americans are blithely pumping record amounts of gasoline into their Blazers, Jeeps, and not - so - mini-vans, is he preparing to campaign to cut the nation's use of fuel?

We already know we are putting too much heat - trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) into the air when we burn fossil fuels to generate electricity, fuel our cars, and heat our homes — but by cutting down and burning trees, we are also releasing an astounding amount of the same heat - trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

The email from Exxon's in - house climate expert provides evidence the company was aware of the connection between fossil fuels and climate change, and the potential for carbon - cutting regulations that could hurt its bottom line, over a generation ago — factoring that knowledge into its decision about an enormous gas field in south - east Asia.

Since 1750, we have emitted about 580 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, cutting down forests and making cement.

On the other hand, many Swedish industries pay a lower rate (about $ 22 / tonne), not all fossil fuels are covered, and proceeds go into general government revenues instead of tax cuts.

Reduce dependency on (imported) fossil fuels (balance of payments, reliance on potentially unfriendly or unstable nations as suppliers, high cost at the pump, all problems as seen from US viewpoint): — encourage nuclear power generation (cut red tape)-- encourage energy savings and improved efficiency projects (tax breaks)-- encourage basic research into new (non fossil fuel) resources (subsidies)-- encourage imports from friendly neighbor, Canada (Keystone pipeline)-- encourage local oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill»)-- encourage «clean coal» projects (tax incentives)-- set goal to become energy independent within ten years

He is now the Chief Technology Officer at XL Hybrids, a company that converts gasoline - powered trucks into hybrid - electric trucks — cutting the trucks» fuel use by 20 percent.

This is because the majority of wood processors today recycle their waste wood off cuts either into other products or for biomass, often in replace of fossil fuels.