Sentences with phrase «oil dependence for»

We've known about the dangers of our oil dependence for decades.

The real issue there is that we risk despoiling natural places just so we can ignore the need to conserve / engineer our way out of oil dependence for a few months to a few years more.

Not exact matches

AZERBAIJAN: Azerbaijan's major oil reserves and decade - long economic boom make it an attractive potential partner for the EU, which needs to diversify its energy sources away from a heavy dependence on Russian gas.

I'm really interested in making games for things typically hard for people, like getting over an illness or injury, or around topics people disengage from, like reducing oil dependence or ending poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

The commercial case for the Keystone XL project, which would allow Gulf Coast refiners to access oil from lower - priced, landlocked markets such as Alberta, therefore, would potentially allow the U.S. to reduce their dependence on foreign oil — albeit by a small amount.

Despite making fiscal changes to reduce the national budget's dependence on oil revenues, he may push for new measures to improve his chances in the country's 2018 presidential elections.

For example, North Dakota's Bakken + Three Forks formations are estimated (as of 2013, USGS) to have a mean of 7.4 billion recoverable barrels, making total oil in those formations only about a year's worth of U.S. dependence.

you better pray for an uprising holding the wealthy in this nation responsible to pay up for research and break our dependence on oil.

They include: high levels of degraded soils; reductions in irrigation quotas to restore the health of the Murray - Darling system; the re-forestation of some agricultural land to meet emissions reductions targets; the impacts of peak oil, such as the diversion of food crops into feed - stock for biofuels; and the price and crop yield implications of peak phosphorous, given Australia's dependence on imported fertilisers.

For decades, policymakers and experts have seen foreign oil dependence as a concrete economic and political problem which required sober technical analysis and efficient solutions — an approach perhaps best reflected in countless attempts to quantify precisely the various costs and benefits of importing oil.

The notion of foreign oil dependence, for instance, has always been intimately connected with threats that have far exceeded the traditional realm of «national security» and include threats to American identity.

And to do that we need to do three things: get the country's spending in check with firm financial controls, raise money for targeted investment in much needed infrastructure; and see us diversify the economy from a damaging dependence on oil.»

«I applaud Governor Cuomo for recognizing the importance of these public transportation services and the role they play in sustaining the State's efforts to improve air quality and reduce dependence on foreign oil.»

In the face of the decline in North Sea oil and gas, the looming early likelihood of peak oil, and the UK's growing dependence on volatile African and Middle Easter state for its fuel, the government has no sure plan to prevent the lights going out at the end of this decade.

Congressman Steve Israel said: «If we are going to end our dependence on foreign oil once and for all, we need to make a commitment to using alternative energy technologies.

A «Manhattan Project» for energy independence would seek new energy sources, including hydrogen - based fuels, to reduce the nation's dependence on Middle Eastern oil.

President Obama has repeatedly highlighted the need for greater conservation efforts when it comes to shoring up our existing and future energy reserves and reducing our dependence on foreign sources of oil.

One reason for this push is the consequences of the alternatives: pollution from fossil - fueled power plants shortens the life span of as many as 30,000 Americans a year; coal and hydraulic fracturing threaten the environment and water supplies; and oil dependence undermines the nation's energy security.

Schuiling says that before the Red Sea is tapped for power, experts would have to weigh the pros (reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on oil) and cons (the disruption to local marine life and increase in salinity of the remaining seawater as well as the impact on tourism and transportation).

Fracking is part of a nationwide boom in the production of natural gas, which is a ready replacement for home heating oil and could lessen dependence on foreign fossil fuels if vast underground shales could be hydraulically fractured.

These investments lay the groundwork for a more secure energy future, helping to reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil and ensuring continued economic growth.

Advancements in batteries and energy storage technology are essential for continued efforts to develop a fundamentally new energy economy with decisively reduced dependence on imported oil.

Four years ago, bipartisan majorities in the California Legislature approved a landmark clean energy bill that many hoped would serve as a template for a national effort to reduce dependence on foreign oil and mitigate the threat of climate change.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 17 — To help the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reduce dependence on foreign oil and accelerate discoveries to preserve the environment, the Environmental Molecular Science Laboratory (EMSL), a national scientific user facility located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), has implemented DataDirect Networks (DDN) high performance block and file storage solutions to provide a storage foundation for ongoing alternative energy research projects.

They are fun to drive, are less expensive and more convenient to fuel than gasoline vehicles, are better for the environment, promote local jobs, and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

These labels also represent another important mile - marker in the Obama Administration's mission to cut fuel costs for American families, reduce the nation's dependence on oil, and give Americans the tools they need to take advantage of remarkable new technologies that make today's cars cleaner and more efficient than ever before.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that 46 innovative transit projects chosen for their capacity to help cut the nation's dependence on oil and create a marketplace for 21st century «green» jobs will share $ 112 million in funding from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).

WASHINGTON — U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced that 46 innovative transit projects chosen for their capacity to help cut the nation's dependence on oil and create a marketplace for 21st century «green» jobs will share $ 112 million in funding from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).

Following the direction set by President Obama on May 21, 2010, NHTSA and EPA have issued joint Final Rules for Corporate Average Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas emissions regulations for model years 2017 and beyond, that will help address our country's dependence on imported oil, save consumers money at the pump, and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change.

No, in the US, decreasing our dependence on foreign oil is cited by many as being the major reason for increasing biofuel production.

So we've pursued a series of policies aimed at encouraging the rise of innovative as well as more cost - effective clean energy technologies that can help America and developing nations reduce greenhouse gases, reduce our dependence on oil, and keep our economies vibrant and strong for decades to come.

Andy, I still feel the same way, but my rationale for allowing drilling wasn't (isn't) the same as McCain and others, who support it to increase oil supplies and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

I must take a moment to remember the oil crisis of 1973 when the Arab nations cut off sales of it to us, since we are now recommitted to continuing our dependence on nations that really dislike us, for our oil supply.

NSTA has distributed a video produced by API called «You Can't Be Cool Without Fuel,» a shameless pitch for oil dependence.

I talked about reducing America's dependence on oil when I was running for President, and I'm proud of the historic progress that we've made over the last two years towards that goal, and we'll talk about that a little bit.

Still, there are few breakthroughs as promising for increasing fuel efficiency and reducing our dependence on oil as electric vehicles.

So the only way for America's energy supply to be truly secure is by permanently reducing our dependence on oil.

Even for those of you who are interested in seeing a reduction in our dependence on fossil fuels — and I know how passionate young people are about issues like climate change — the fact of the matter is, is that for quite some time, America is going to be still dependent on oil in making its economy work.

Time for a «Triple Play»: Reduce Oil Prices and Dependence on Fossil Fuels, while Meeting the Growing Demand for Electric Power

Even some Neo-Conservatives and some members of the Christian Right (both of whom I normally do not agree with) are saying we must invest in renewables to allow for a healthy environment and to reduce America's dependence on Middle - Eastern oil (reducing the monies available to Islamic Fundamentalists).

He credited President Obama for a host of actions on vehicle efficiency and other fronts that should cut American oil dependence in coming years, but criticized this move as premature.

I have no quarrel with those taking an absolutist «no fracking» stance, including the makers of «Gasland,» the searing documentary on fracking nominated for an Academy Award, as long as they come up with other energy options that can reduce dependence on oil or coal (and cutting energy waste, while vital, doesn't do the trick).

Second, reducing our dependence on oil would take away the main reason for our constant intervention in the MidEast, which is the terrorists» main recruiting tool.

In the same long - term period it would take for any effects to be felt from these steps, the United States can drastically reduce its dependence on oil, rather than continuing the same unsustainable practices that got us where we are today.

... We've got to remember that the risks our current dependence on oil holds for our environment and our coastal communities is not the only cost involved in our dependence on these fossil fuels.

My sense is that they take green tech seriously as a global business sector and a way, internally, to limit coal and oil demand and dependence, but I don't perceive the Chinese taking low carbon seriously as an internal policy goal (if that means a carbon intensity trajectory more than a nudge below what will happen anyway for other reasons).

Publicly, most automakers are ducking the issue and emphasizing potential pitfalls of building hybrid cars with plugs, but pressure is mounting behind the scenes to give the idea some life... «Such development should have the highest research and development priority because it promises to revolutionize transportation economics and to have a dramatic effect on the problems caused by oil dependence,» write George Shultz, former U.S. secretary of state, and James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in a June position paper on oil and U.S. national security... They argue that battery development for plug - in hybrids «should for the time being replace the current research and development emphasis on automotive hydrogen fuel cells.»

It reduces our dependence on volatile prices, set by whatever the most recent unrest in the Middle East is; for example, over the last month, we have seen a 10 % oil price spike on news of a restart of Egypt's unrest — and they're not even a major oil producer!

Following a second global oil crisis in 1979, the Block Island Economic Development Foundation compiled a report that underscored the urgent need for the island to kick its dependence on oil.