Sentences with phrase «of foreign oil»

The project will provide grants for development of «breakthrough» technologies in areas such as reduction of foreign oil consumption and energy - related emissions, and improvements in energy - efficiency.

The only way to reduce the importance of foreign oil is to develop our own abundant resources, along with all other forms of energy.

It will surely reduce the use of foreign oil by shifting the load to the electric grid, but isn't it clear that this will just exacerbate the electric power problem.

Brazil needs the technology, equipment and expertise of foreign oil companies if it hopes to grow its oil industry.

``... we've cut our imports of foreign oil by nearly 60 percent, and cut carbon pollution more than any other country on Earth.

However, how do you think the US» strive to be independent of foreign oil affect its energy sector?

§ 15927 («[I] t is the policy of the United States that... United States oil shale, tar sands, and other unconventional fuels are strategically important domestic resources that should be developed to reduce the growing dependence of the United States on politically and economically unstable sources of foreign oil imports -LSB-.]»)

For example, getting off of foreign oil in ten years is probably not feasible no matter how much conservation, rising efficiency standards, financing replacement of inefficient cars and machines, and so on.

If Brazil hopes to grow its oil industry it will need the technology and equipment of foreign oil companies.

The environmental secretary of Rio threatened to revoke Chevron's operating license over the spill, sending shivers all the way up to Houston, home to the dozens of foreign oil companies that feed Brazil's oil engine.

But as the US reliance of foreign oil declines, fewer petrodollars should result in relatively smaller purchases of US bonds.

The transit costs of moving crude by rail from North Dakota across the country tips the balance in favor of foreign oil.

The cultural upheaval that comes from the post-colonial presence of foreign oil companies is important to the story, but we see it strictly through its immediate effects on Blessing's life.

Every 20 minutes outside my home, a vehicle quietly swishes by, using not one drop of foreign oil or emitting any greenhouse gases.

For less than we pay for three months of foreign oil, we will catalyze quick retrofits of over 50 million vehicles.

We need everyone to make America free of foreign oil addiction!

«Americans For Progress» is who paid for those recent telemarketing calls urging opposition to the proposed Kenosha - Racine - Milwaukee commuter rail line, which will lessen our use of foreign oil.

Canada is the biggest U.S. supplier of foreign oil, and it buys some U.S. crude and sells it gasoline, natural gas and electricity.

Because the environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help America become independent of foreign oil!

When you add in refined products and other petroleum liquids, Canadian exports soared past 4.1 million barrels a day, a total that is higher than the next seven U.S. suppliers combined, and nearly four times more than Saudi Arabia, the U.S.'s second largest source of foreign oil.

«My belief is if we can extract natural gas, which is a cleaner form of energy, from our land, reducing the import of foreign oil and the cash flowing out of our country, and make for cleaner air, improve the economy and not damage the water, I'm for it,» Jacobs continued.

And, as Andy Kunz told us recently, a serious high - speed rail network could significantly cut American carbon emissions, boost technology and help wean us off of foreign oil.

You see, Jim served as the director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and so he knows a thing or two about national security and why we should curb our use of foreign oil.

Many major, international oil companyies have $ 100 billion plans in place to triple this exported amount of tar sands to the U. S. in a decade to fuel the U. S. appetite for a more secure supply of foreign oil, than from elsewhere in this troubled world.

It would also make the country independent of foreign oil, but more important it would awaken the innovative giant the USA used to be.

There is a possibility that hydrogen can displace gasoline for powering our vehicles and thereby lessen our use of foreign oil.

We reminisce about the beginnings of the Plan in the summer of 2008, how we were importing $ 1 billion of foreign oil (it's about half that today), how we had no energy plan and no prospects for one from either candidate, Barack Obama or John McCain, and how we focused on converting heavy - duty trucks from diesel to natural gas right from the get - go.

Thanks to increasing pressure to reduce carbon emissions and cut the use of foreign oil, biofuels - renewable, home - grown and marketed as less damaging than fossil fuels - have used corporate and political clout to win billions in subsidies from the US taxpayer.

Make the major moves necessary NOW to reduce our use of Foreign Oil and Oil in general.

While Jim Rogers has called for the US to «wean [itself] from the use of foreign oil,» [viii] Duke works alongside multinational oil companies like ExxonMobil, BP, Shell and Chevron within ALEC, all of which are known for their heavy obstruction of U.S. climate and clean energy policies.

What it really meant is that pro-energy reform senators had to get motivated, ramp up their arguments in favor of a climate bill — which include the goldmines of creating jobs and cutting dependence of foreign oil — and finally, to get ready to compromise.

The action plan for Europe's new energy policy almost ignores the transport sector, which is absurd considering that transport guzzles 70 - 80 % of foreign oil imports and that the EU aims to reduce its dependency on foreign oil.