Sentences with phrase «much as alternative fuel»

It drives home the basic notion that while natural gas emits half as much carbon as coal, it still produces twice as much as alternative fuel sources.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, efforts at oil giant Royal Dutch Shell RDS.A, +0.62 % to move beyond fossil fuels into low - carbon energy is as much driven by the growth potential of alternative energy markets as a concern for global warming.

We think we can do a much cleaner alternative, and if the governor is serious about moving away from burning fossil fuels that he should be using the Empire State Plaza as a model.»

To date, natural oil still serves as our primary source of fuel, even though a much cleaner alternative exists in the form of synthetic fuel.

Mild - hybrid engines are set to replace diesels as a low - cost alternative for fuel efficient units, with plug - in hybrids already available across much of the Volvo range.

One thing you don't hear as much about when oil prices are down is buying a hybrid car, a diesel vehicle, or other alternative - fuel vehicle.

Biofuel investment should amount to 0.3 billion dollars up to 2035, Birol adds — so the big oil alternative would receive just 3 percent as much * money as continued investment in the fossil fuel it is one day supposed to replace.

As far as hydrogen fuel cells versus electric cars or wind - powered land sailers, you can make arguments on all sides of the alternative fuel debate until you're blue in the face from too much COAs far as hydrogen fuel cells versus electric cars or wind - powered land sailers, you can make arguments on all sides of the alternative fuel debate until you're blue in the face from too much COas hydrogen fuel cells versus electric cars or wind - powered land sailers, you can make arguments on all sides of the alternative fuel debate until you're blue in the face from too much CO2.

But fossil fuel companies, as well as the automakers, have fought tooth and nail to block cleaner alternatives, so for a long time, Americans — who are still responsible for more carbon emissions per person than anywhere else in the world — didn't have much choice.

In fact, renewable and alternative fuels face even more serious infrastructure issues, as much of the infrastructure that will soon be needed is not even in place.

There's been much talk of modern airships as a fuel efficient alternative to planes.

From another angle, if the US wasn't so utterly dependent on fossil fuels it would not have to spend so much money supporting the national and corporate goals of ensuring that the oil keeps flowing, in the process supporting despotic regimes, even supporting friendly governments trying to peddle their environmentally destructive oil as a better alternative to those regimes, and de facto supporting rampant environment destruction in some of the world's poorest regions.

A new study shows that alternative fuels made from plant oils can cut down on particle emissions in jet exhaust by as much as 50 to 70 percent.

Obviously, if we burn as much fossil fuel in creating an alternative (in addition to the problematic pollution created by phosphates and nitrogens), we don't have the right solution.