Sentences with phrase «need for oil imports»

By way of calibration, this would essentially eliminate the need for oil imports for passenger vehicle fuel and would require only the amount of land now in the soil bank (the Conservation Reserve Program («CRP») on which such soil - restoring crops as switchgrass are already being grown.

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Still, though China has managed not to rely on any single country for more than a small percentage of its oil needs, its imports are still quite concentrated in terms of geographical region and in unstable regions at that, namely the Middle East and Africa.

She mentioned that, despite the shale - oil boom, the U.S. would continue to need energy imports «for a very long time.»

With Asia's rapidly growing need for energy imports in the early 2000s, Canada hoped to reduce its almost 100 % reliance on the United States as an export market for oil and natural gas by expanding to Asia.

The minister heads the state oil company PDVSA, which is in desperate need of a hike in fuel revenues and favorable financial ratings to fund imports of consumer goods and medical supplies for its citizens and to keep the socialist government's public services afloat.

First, the abruptly increased price of oil raised the cost of necessary imports dramatically, and funds were needed to pay for this.

«His weak green light to renewable fuels, refusal to cut fossil fuel subsidies and his call for further imports, completely undermines last year's recognition of the need to end the nation's oil addiction,» she said.

But the oil industry is pushing as hard as ever for their pet project, and we need to show the president the connection between decisions to import tar sands and a future full of Sandys.

The Annual Energy Outlook projecting United States energy trends through 2030 foresees flat demand for oil, a shrinking need for imports and enormous expansion of the percentage of light vehicles with hybrid fuel - electric propulsion.

As EIA projects, the United States will continue to use oil well into the future, and more imports would increase U.S. dependency on others for its energy needs.

For many, debt is heavily driven by the need to import oil that at today's oil prices can not be paid for by sales of agricultural products, textiles, and other typical developing nation exporFor many, debt is heavily driven by the need to import oil that at today's oil prices can not be paid for by sales of agricultural products, textiles, and other typical developing nation exporfor by sales of agricultural products, textiles, and other typical developing nation exports.

When mitigating anthropogenic global warming is projected to require greater than 80 % lower fossil energy use, how do we provide the transport fuel and energy for rapid growth by developing countries while sustaining OECD economic growth when the Available Net Exports of crude oil — after China and India's imports — have already declined 13 % since 2005, and Saudi Arabia may need to import oil by 2030?

The president himself is pushing policies aimed at weaning the U.S. transportation system off imported oil, but he has also acknowledged that Canada and other neighbouring democracies are favoured sources for the imported oil that will be needed.

In announcing his appointment, IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven said that Mr. Millard's work at DECC «resulted in the production of quality data meeting both national and international needs, as well as establishing new approaches for monitoring energy efficiency policies, improving the timeliness of data, e.g. quarterly renewables data, and new analysis such as diversity measures in oil and gas imports».

More renewable energy could lessen the fuel security risk, the study noted, but would also force coal and oil - fired generation retirements, boosting the need for liquified natural gas imports.