Sentences with phrase «oil crisis»

We've had these renewable energy efforts in the past, like after the first oil crisis in the 1970s, but they weren't sustained.

Thankfully they never listened and although they struggled in the early years their breakthrough came in the form of the first oil crisis in 1973.

In their first episode, they look at the impact of the electric car and how it will cause the next oil crisis.

The 1973 - 1974 oil crisis made a lot of people start to pay attention to fuel economy for the first time.

The coming oil crisis will tend to push them in this direction.

Political priorities since the first oil crisis in 1974 have led to national policy positions that have undermined advances in renewable technologies, mandatory standards, and financial business cases for low energy buildings.

A prediction that electric cars will cause the next oil crisis.

The Yom Kippur War between Israel and Egypt / Syria in the fall of 1973 hastened the 1970s oil crisis when OPEC declared an embargo that raised the posted price of oil from $ 3.00 a barrel to approximately $ 12 by spring of 1974.

Chris Martenson, economic researcher, trend forecaster, The Crash Course author, and founder of Peak Prosperity, discusses the eight forms of capital you need to become resilient to crisis, how the financial system scams hapless investors, and why gold will get much more valuable once the next oil crisis hits.

Sure enough, the experiment — an effort to create a new energy source to end the current oil crisis on Earth — sends the Cloverfield Station into another dimension, where normal rules of nature no longer apply.

The current oil crisis will see regime changes in strategic places, and a currency crisis is in the offing.

The disastrous oil crisis still unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico is only the most recent reminder that America is overdue to start a major transition to a clean energy economy.

Near the time of the first Middle East Oil crisis in the early 1970s, Leach convinced gullible American investors to give him US$ 1 - million on the strength of his claim that he had built a car that used ordinary water as a fuel.

A second oil crisis followed in 1979 in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, sending crude prices higher and hurting consumer spending.

• The hope for oil crisis: children, oil vulnerability and (in) dependent mobility • Mind the governance gap: oil vulnerability and urban resilience in Australian cities

But having made my point, I probably shouldn't hijack this interesting post about methane hydrates any further — I guess we should try to work out how to extract and burn them to avert the peak oil crisis risk of release: --RRB-

One of the most alarming stories to emerge from the entire BP Gulf oil crisis has been the company's penchant for using toxic chemical dispersants to try to break up and spread out the oil — and that the federal

The Middle East oil crisis caused many American drivers to rethink their big Detroit gas - guzzlers.

«There was some interest in converting syngas into ethanol during the first oil crisis back in the 70s,» said Ames Lab chemist and Chemical and Biological Science Program Director Victor Lin.

Russia and Saudi Arabia have worked together in previous oil crises, but such long agreements have never been reached.

The 1970s proved a difficult time to be in government for both the Conservatives and Labour due to the 1973 oil crisis which caused high inflation and a global recession.

Since OBD2 and not to mention the 1973 oil crisis torque converters have lockup to cancel the power loss.

Turbo - charging was not preferred initially as the engines were perceived to be less reliable, however the method won a decisive victory by the mid-1970s as the 1973 oil crisis increased fuel costs.

The 1973 oil crisis combined with the collapse of the Citroën / Maserati relationship, made Maserati unable to gain EEC approval for the car.

The 1973 oil crisis nearly killed Citroen, which had purchased Maserati in 1968, while the early 1990s saw the Chubasco mid-engined sports car cancelled due to financial issues and the introduction of front - engined, six - cylinder cars, a rather awkward layout for the brand.

More than a decade earlier, Ford had decided against producing a new small car to rival BMC's Mini as the production cost was deemed too high, but the 1973 oil crisis saw a rise in the already growing demand for smaller cars.

3) Contango Oil and Gas (MCF)-- Oil crisis issues are so far away from anyone's thoughts these days that I think it is time to increase exposure to the sector.

Unfortunately, the 1974 oil crisis forced an end to the 2002 Turbo's production after just one year as gas prices were soaring across the world.

These words belong to Haegue Yang, whose recent «Influences» piece for frieze ebbed through the various bygone tales that inform her multivalent practice, from the musical compositions of Isang Yun to the families who were left estranged following the Korean oil crisis of 1971.

They suggest a confident historical narrative interrupted by the Vietnam war and the subsequent oil crisis and a questioning of the infallibility of the American ambition.

There are also fancier systems using water - filled collectors, etc. (My neighbor, BTW, has had one of the later since the»70s oil crisis.)

The study, published in the journal Aquatic Toxicology, is titled «Chemical dispersants used in the Gulf of Mexico oil crisis are cytotoxic and genotoxic to sperm whale cells.»

Combined with an ammonia - based storage system, the solar thermal concentrator will not only create carbon emission - free base load power, its technology could also be used to one day solve the widening oil crisis and supplant high - earning coal exports, Prof Lovegrove said in Melbourne this week.»

The EPA first set fuel efficiency standards in the 1970s to reduce the nation's reliance on foreign oil, after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries oil crisis sent the price per barrel skyrocketing.

(First one was Rockefeller's influence to have Rock Oil declared as of biological origin, in 1892; second one Kissinger's engineered oil crisis 1973).

If at any point during your observation of this interminable oil crisis in the Gulf you've found yourself thinking, well, it looks like we should probably do something to start curbing our national dependence on this stuff, know that you're not alone.

In the last oil crisis of the» 70's, Alternet says that America pulled together and reduced their driving speeds across the country to 55 MPH to save fuel.

I'm traveling around the Gulf of Mexico, reporting on the ongoing oil crisis.