Sentences with phrase «lack of fuel supplies»

The brain can not wait until breakfast and perceives this lack of fuel supply as an emergency.

Not exact matches

By targeting refineries, already suffering from a lack of investment, Mexico's most notorious criminals gain access to nerve centers for much of the country's fuel supply.

Rising household wealth and a lack of supply is fuelling price growth but cooling measures introduced in the last quarter of 2016 are starting to have some effect.»

To start, nearly all of the CSLF meeting participants were bullish on the outlook for fossil fuel consumption, expressing the view that fossil use would increase over the next several decades due to a combination of demand factors (e.g. population and economic growth) and supply factors (e.g. lack of cost - competitive renewable energy).

Time will tell, but for Germany it appears that a lack of low cost storage would necessitate a vast oversupply of Solar and Wind power in order to supply the grid without backup from fossil fuel, hydro, and / or nuclear.

Mandating the use of renewable fuels has, thus far, been a failed experiment; the lack of commercial - scale cellulosic biofuels plants in the U.S. has left it unclear if even a drop of cellulosic biofuel was blended into the fuel supply in 2011.

It's not that people in 2100 can't have a reasonable economy without oil, but that if fossil fuels aren't treated as a one - time inheritance of energy capital, and carefully * invested * in efficiency & sustainable energy supplies, people can run off an «energy cliff» where they lack the capital to make the transition.

Not only is there a lack of political will to make major cuts to fossil fuel use, there is no physical capacity to replace such cuts now or into the future in full with any Non-carbon energy supply.

But the lack of an inexpensive, low - emission power supply has limited the scale of restoration, so Swell Fuel's wave power units could be applied to offer a solution for more vast swaths that are destroyed.

That goes for just about all forms of food, our concern fuelled by dangerous additives, e coli, listerosis, and the lack of control over suppliers distributed across the globe.