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Repairs to firehouses, police precincts, city offices and courthouses, along with purchases of more fuel efficient vehicles will also help reduce emissions Regarding the price tag for these efforts, the mayor said that the city should break even on its conservation investments by 2013.

It's bound to come down, sooner or later, be it because of the more fuel efficient car, electric cars, the tension going away or simply a surplus in the world reserve.

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The corporate rate cut would give U.S. transportation companies of all sizes more money to upgrade their fleets with fuel - efficient vehicles.

In the summer of 2016, Boeing suggested it could end production of the original jumbo jet — the Boeing 747 — as airlines eschewed the plane in favor of more fuel - efficient models.

Automakers have argued that the rules could result in the loss of up to 1 million jobs because consumers could be less willing to buy the more fuel efficient vehicles since their engineering will result in higher price tags.

It also has another line of business that makes buildings more fuel - efficient.

The improvement will be driven by a combination of stronger passenger and cargo markets, cost - cutting measures, a more fuel - efficient fleet, better fuel hedges and revenue gains from new long - haul routes, CEO Rupert Hogg told Reuters.

The twin - aisle plane is coming into service as Delta phases out its last Boeing 747s, the four - engine plane that some airlines have ditched in favor of more fuel - efficient twin - engine planes.

Airlines have also turned their backs on the Airbus A380 in favor of smaller, more fuel efficient competitors.

He thinks the application could also help the U.S. Air Force shave tens of millions of dollars a year from its fuel budget by computing more efficient schedules for in - air refueling.

The two models of the narrow - bodied single - aisle plane are quiet and 20 % more fuel efficient than other similar - sized jets, while also offering decent leg room, unlike other planes of the same size.

For example, generating efficient, renewable energy is a priority of the federal government, so businesses involving Cogeneration (using one fuel to simultaneously produce heat and electricity) or renewable energy technologies will find more government grant opportunities than others.

For a given level of prices, more fuel - efficient furnaces encourage larger houses, and more fuel - efficient engines encourage larger cars.

The need for more fuel - efficient automobiles will greatly increase the cost of parts — by more than $ 2,500 per vehicle.

The long - run trend indicates that demand for smaller, more fuel - efficient cars has increased relative to demand for light trucks because of rising gasoline prices.

Global airline stocks are currently soaring as a result of low oil prices, increased seat capacity and more fuel - efficient aircraft.

With the grants, «we are joining forces with leading social innovators to fuel the pursuit of a more equitable and efficient labor market,» according to ablog posted today by Jacqueline Fuller, President of Google.org, and Kathleen McLaughlin, President, Walmart Foundation.

Although it is now clearly demonstrated that the most cost - effective step for most utility companies and industries is to invest in more efficient equipment so as to reduce the use of fuel, the energy policy of the Bush administration, supported by prevailing preferences among economists, gives only lip service to this approach.

They have been too little concerned with the simple technological changes needed for more efficient use of firewood as a fuel for cooking.

A major national effort to become more efficient in the use of fuels will slow down the Greenhouse effect.

Recent reports estimate that soy - based proteins are 6 — 20 times more efficient in terms of fossil fuel requirement (67 — 69), 4.4 — 26 times more efficient in terms of water requirement (68), and 6 — 17 times more efficient in terms of land use (70) vs. animal proteins.

With gas prices on the rise and global warming becoming more and more of a threat, many are turning to fuel efficient hybrids.

Speaking at the launch event, European Commissioner for Climate Action & Energy Miguel Arias Cañete said: «The European energy sector is undergoing a change of paradigm - from a system based on fossil fuels, towards a more efficient, more sustainable, clean energy sector.

They are probably launching them west to east not because they are attempting to threaten Japan but rather because it is more fuel (and money) efficient to launch in that direction and japan happens to be east of them.

These include: • One of the most technically advanced and cleanest smelters in the world which captures 99.9 per cent of sulphur emissions and generates two thirds of the plant's electrical power • A US$ 10m combined heat and power system that will reduce emissions by 90 per cent compared with separate heat and power systems • A vehicle idling reduction programme that now covers 360 vehicles and has resulted in the avoidance of more than two million gallons of fuel and emissions • New, more efficient trucks with fewer emissions

Eric Lewin of Lewin Farms said the grant program recently helped him to replace old diesel tanks on his family's farm with a larger and more efficient fuel storage facility.

This will be achieved through a combination of high carbon trading and offset; the use of sustainable fuel such as from waste and fuel - burn reduction through a more efficient aircraft fleet.

Murray suggested an alternative strategy of technological investment (he welcomed Richard Branson's encouragement of a more efficient airline fuel), resilience to extreme events and adaptation.

The approval of the natural gas - fired plant came at a time when the administration was generally attempting to move away from fossil fuel generation and toward renewable energy generation, per its Reforming Energy Vision, which seeks to make the energy grid more reliant on renewable sources and more efficient.

Milwaukee County's vehicle fleet is becoming more fuel - efficient, thanks to an infusion of Ford Fusion Hybrid vehicles unveiled Monday at Milwaukee County's Fleet Maintenance facility.

It can help improve fuel economy by encouraging more efficient fuel burning, and the trapezoid shape of the ground electrode provides improved flame reproduction.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

«We bathe on cleaner beaches, drive more fuel - efficient cars and can hold government to account on air pollution,» said Mary Creagh, chair of the house's Environmental Audit Committee.

«From an engineering standpoint, the diesel fuel and the way we use it allow us to be more thermodynamically efficient,» said Margaret Wooldridge, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan.

The president, meanwhile, made a strong argument for more efficient use of gasoline through alternative vehicles and strengthened fuel economy standards.

There is now adequate empirical evidence available around the world: Wherever people have brought about more efficient use of energy and greater use of renewable energy, you generate many more jobs than if you were to continue with conventional technologies and fossil fuels.

For example, I have voted to improve fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, to provide communities with funding to expand public transportation, to provide tax credits to expand the use of wind and solar technologies, as well as expanding access to grants and tax credits for homeowners to weatherize their homes and purchase more fuel efficient vehicles.

VHTR plants could even produce hydrogen for fuel using high - temperature steam electrolysis, which breaks apart the bonds of water molecules; this process is 50 percent more energy - efficient than existing hydrogen production methods.

As a result of my bipartisan Ten - in - Ten Fuel Economy Act, which was signed into law in 2007, vehicles are more fuel - efficient and the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards are headed toward responsible levels, based on the best science availaFuel Economy Act, which was signed into law in 2007, vehicles are more fuel - efficient and the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards are headed toward responsible levels, based on the best science availafuel - efficient and the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards are headed toward responsible levels, based on the best science availafuel economy (CAFE) standards are headed toward responsible levels, based on the best science available.

Among other adjustments that could help double fuel economy are turbocharging with smaller, more efficient engines that produce the same level of power; advanced heat management and cooling systems, which reuse the heat produced in the engine for energy; weight reduction, including broader use of high - strength steel that is already in some cars today; better aerodynamics; more efficient air conditioners, transmissions and lighting devices (including headlights); and increased electrification leading to full hybridization with electric motor and regenerative breaking — all of which currently exist.

«Fire whirls are more efficient than other forms of combustion because they produce drastically increased heating to the surface of fuels, allowing them to burn faster and more completely.

The device produces an electric field near the fuel injector and the field thins out the fuel which means that the droplets of fuel that get injected into the engine are smaller, which appears to give more efficient and cleaner combustion.

Although large freight railway traffic (measured in carloads) is down 19 percent this year due to the recessed economy, it grew 47 percent between 1990 and 2007, and railroads have been more fuel - efficient than trucking for at least the past few decades, according to the Association of American Railroads.

In Europe, about half of all new cars sold are now diesels, some of which are more fuel - efficient than a Prius.

At the same time, the aviation industry has become far more fuel efficient in the face of soaring prices.

Auto industry experts predict that more than 50 percent of cars on the road by 2020 will use a relatively new type of fuel - efficient engine.