Sentences with phrase «make gas prices increase»

Oil companies produce less in the spring to make gas prices increase.

Not exact matches

«The business model of an oil and gas company in the future is going to have to be built around the abundance model, where your returns are not going to be made by commodity price increases,» says Munro.

And while increased gas prices have a direct effect on local sales tax collections according to the state comptroller, Mahoney said that dovetails with investments the county has made to promote tourism.

Most importantly, when comparing models with the same features, the Toyota was about $ 7,000 cheaper, so even with the slightly better fuel economy of the Ford, the gas savings would never make up for the premium in price (not to mention the increased insurance costs of Fords aluminum body).

While the stock market has enjoyed record - setting gains, gas prices have fallen, and employment figures and wages have increased, those saddled with student loan debt continue to struggle to make interest payments, start families, buy homes and start saving for retirement.

Both gas and food prices have increased enough over the past couple of years; do not make the situation worse.

Relying heavily on biofuels made from food crops — such as soybeans, sugar cane, or canola — would not only affect food supplies and increase food prices, but would produce significant greenhouse gases during the planting and harvesting of these crops, as well as from forest clearing for more agricultural land.

This increased supply — which is expected to continue for years — has lowered prices for natural gas, making it very cost - competitive compared to other energy sources.

These export terminals for LNG in Canada is also needed to increase the price of natural gas in Canada and thereby make the renewable energy option for tar sands more viable.

-- I'd agree to all assumptions made on wind & PV deployment, rather stable consumption, slight increased price competitiveness for gas towards coal and so on.

By comparison, the contract for the wind - generated electricity started at 24.4 cents per kwh and includes a guaranteed 3.5 % price increase bringing the wind - generated electricity to 47 cents per kwh in twenty years — making the wind - generated electricity roughly 4 - 8 times more expensive than the natural gas - fueled electricity.

While it does not necesarily follow from this, it is not illogical to assume that recent increases in oil and gas prices have had a greater effect on US than European demand, particularly since, with historically lower energy prices, the US has not made many of the lower - hanging efficiency investments that have already been made in Europe.

Increased fuel diversity, which makes the electric sector 20 percent less sensitive to changes in natural gas prices

By playing up jingoistic fears of «energy dependence,» King Corn has convinced the Congress that ethanol, a motor fuel distilled from corn, is a national security imperative, despite the fact that it increases gas prices, it's awful for the environment, it contributes to asthma, and it makes food costlier.

If a worldwide price on carbon is imposed, electricity prices increase, or gas prices decrease, this would make this almost carbon neutral scheme more profitable.

Even as gas prices have doubled or tripled in the last few years, we have seen people make choices to drive smaller cars, we have seen no decrease in the rate of increase in vehicle miles travelled.