Sentences with phrase «of oil dependency»

Getting rid of oil dependency, good.

«The only breakthrough technology is fuel cell because this is the one that guarantees you are out of oil dependency,» Carlos Ghosn, who heads both France's Renault SA and Japanese partner Nissan Motor Co., told reporters this week.

This is one dollar for every man, woman and child in the U.S. — a small price to pay for helping to break the back of our oil dependency — and curb the dangerous effects of global climate change.

Not exact matches

Al Fulaij: Imminent challenges are oil - price dependency, higher regulations, competition and, of course, geopolitics.

The rising cost of oil, its impact on global warming, the geopolitical risks associated with oil dependency (especially as fuel for automobiles), followed more recently by the rise of cost effective alternatives presents a «change the world» opportunity for Apple.

The kingdom has vowed to implement widespread economic reforms in a bid to reduce its huge dependency on oil, which accounts for as much as 90 % of government revenues.

Saudi Arabia has plans to sell about 5 % of Saudi Aramco, the state - owned oil company, through an IPO in 2018 and expects to generate up to $ 100 billion for the country's Vision 2030 program, designed to shift the Saudi economy away from oil dependency towards tech and entertainment services.

With the worst of its financial pressures behind it, Saudi Arabia is forging ahead with its ambitious Vision 2030 development plan to diversify away from oil dependency and stimulate demand.

Apparently, it will only be when we cease our dependency on fossil fuels, and the massive Muslim oil money that is diverted to radical Islam dries up, that the promoters of this barbarous cult will retreat back to the desert where all this horror originated.

Despite the international shale oil boom extracting natural gas with hydrofracking technologies, which most electric utilities, including the local ones, supply to customers as a major part of their power supply, the shift away from petroleum dependency has made remarkable progress in recent years through strategic incentives like the one which prompted this vote in Olive.

He added that Buhari had succeeded in repositioning the economy from dependency on oil and focusing on other sources of revenue such as agriculture.

Indeed, the feature is set in the same post-apocalyptic world of the latter short in which oil dependency and food supplies plummeting create a cut - throat world that is nearly impossible to survive in.

In his weekly internet and radio address on Saturday, President Obama focused on the ideal of utilizing fuel efficient technology as a means to lower the cost of energy, as well as decrease the dependency the US has on foreign sources of oil.

The sacral use of crude oil as representative of the «blood of the earth» highlights our dependency on the planet's solar memory.

In his latest project entitled Western Flag, Irish conceptual artist John Gerrard created a simulated flag of black smoke as a critical homage to the United States» oil dependency.

President Bush, while being Texas Governor, approved and allowed development of new alternative energy solutions such as Wind Turbines in areas, producing much of cheap needed energy and detaching from foreign oil dependency.

I ask why there is so much garbage everywhere, and am told by an NGO representative that there is a culture of dependency; the oil company supplies everything and the people even expect them to pick up the garbage.

Here's a shock: I read National Review, agree with a lot of the articles, enjoy the magazine, AND I'm concerned about the environment, oil dependency, alternate fuels, and the war.

The recent energy price shocks from Hurricane Katrina remind us of the need to conserve to help the victims, and reduce our dependency on oil,» explained Global Green President Matt Petersen.

Loosely relevant, but the UK government has been reported to be giving higher priority to get the UK off oil dependency for its energy needs as a matter of national urgency, not provoked by climate change but by ongoing events in the Middle East.

I can't see any negatives in investing in infrastructure that could reduce dependency on foreign oil and reduce greenhouse emissions at the expense of a little convenience.

Alternate energy, nuclear power, wind, solar, tide, hybrids — we have to unleash the technology of America, and we must reduce and eventually eliminate this dependency on foreign oil because it has become a national security issue.

Climate and energy policies are well connected — reducing oil depletion and dependency should be achieved through deploying renewable sources and in effect will bring reducing of carbon dioxide — thus what climate policies were (yet) not able to bring, peak oil and high oil prices (however with more negative impacts, like social unrest and geo - political instability) certainly will.

More Americans also mention crude oil prices, the shortage of oil supplies, and U.S. dependency on foreign oil» [10].

Western and industrialized nations have, in addition to a dependency on massive quantities of oil, an ever - growing need for more and more electricity.

The earlier text says increased development and deployment of «alternative fuels» will be needed and says «electrification of transport is important to break oil dependency».

They have understood that all these measures taken to reduce coal and oil dependency are very much in vain, and, not only that but they provide lots of new opportunities for oil companies.

The embargo highlighted national dependencies of imported fuels, the importance of oil reserves, economic exposure and made the consumer suddenly realise the cost of heating in their uninsulated buildings.

Reduce dependency on (imported) fossil fuels (balance of payments, reliance on potentially unfriendly or unstable nations as suppliers, high cost at the pump, all problems as seen from US viewpoint): — encourage nuclear power generation (cut red tape)-- encourage energy savings and improved efficiency projects (tax breaks)-- encourage basic research into new (non fossil fuel) resources (subsidies)-- encourage imports from friendly neighbor, Canada (Keystone pipeline)-- encourage local oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill»)-- encourage «clean coal» projects (tax incentives)-- set goal to become energy independent within ten years

In doing so, it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve the economics of the electricity industry, and reduce the U.S. dependency on foreign oil.

There are these mythical house batteries that are supposed to be coming, but in the mean time I'm tired of reading about removing dependency on oil, coal and natural gas.

Secretary Kerry is well - aware of U.S. national security issues, and he knows the best way to strengthen national security vis - à - vis dependency on oil is to break the stranglehold of oil on the transportation system, by dramatically reducing demand and developing alternative transportation energy sources.

From my point of view, any national policy should be directed at deducing the nation's dependency on foreign oil (almost all) while developing local industries, again reducing the country's dependency on key materials.

Energy Department Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Renewable Energy Seminar Amman - Jordan 27 - 28 March 2012 Current Energy Challenges Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Current Energy Challenges Jordan is facing a real challenge in securing its energy supply due to: Almost no indigenous energy resources High dependency on imported energy (97 % imports in 2011) Oil prices up (energy / Biofuels production).

And they warn that investing billions of dollars in oil transportation will lock the U.S. into continued dependency on an increasingly heavy type of imported crude that will drive up emissions both from the foreign producer and the domestic refiner.

Renergie looks forward to working closely with the Obama - Biden administration to: (a) reduce U.S. dependency on imported oil; (b) repeal the ethanol import tariff; (c) maximize the environmental benefits of ethanol - blended transportation fuels; and (d) create jobs in rural areas of the United States by growing ethanol demand, specifically hydrous ethanol demand, beyond the 10 % blend market.

Even if one buys into the premise that the government should be forcing businesses and consumers to alter their behavior in the name of fighting climate change (or «oil dependency»), it is still an unavoidable conclusion that CAFE standards are absurd.

The move is framed as a way of attacking climate change, reducing U.S. dependency on foreign oil and growing the economy through cleaner energy jobs.

Officially a protest event — against oil dependency, and our vulnerability to motorists among other issues — and a public show of support for immodesty, the riders were also there in celebration of a city smitten with cycling.

We can choose to transition to a clean energy economy that addresses a multitude of challenges — oil dependency, energy security, global warming, air pollution — or we can choose to ignore these problems.

Just a decade ago, the main topic of US energy policy discussion was the apparently unstoppable growth in oil and gas imports, and what it meant for energy dependency.

Reid calls for investing in «job - creating clean energy projects... rather that increasing out dependency on unsustainable supplies of dirty and polluting oil.»

His critical thinking has driven people around the globe — from world leaders to the average Joe — to think differently about energy and its role in some of our biggest problems: climate change, oil dependency, national security, economic health, and depletion of natural resources.

It's the subject of his book Winning the Oil Endgame, and he makes it sound fairly simple: On one hand, the deadly risks of continued dependency, and on the other, some win - win solutions.

PGR RI hopes to help prepare for and welcome 10,000 plug - in EVs to the state by 2015 in order to reduce Rhode Island's carbon emissions, lessen its dependency on oil and alleviate the range anxiety of driving an EV.

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Martin Luther King paved the way for Barack Obama, the modern Elvis, Beatlemania, Barack Obama, whose message of hope and change, to beat back climate change, to end our dependency on «the tyranny of oil», to end the war in Iraq led to his victory in Iowa last night, and has him poised to be the next President of the United States.

Irish Examiner — January 23, 2015 While the arguments for wind power seem straightforward and compelling, Wind power would reduce our dependency on foreign oil, wind power is clean and would allow for the shut down of dirty fossil fuel fired power plants.

While the arguments for wind power seem straightforward and compelling, Wind power would reduce our dependency on foreign oil, wind power is clean and would allow for the shut down of dirty fossil fuel fired power plants.

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.