Sentences with phrase «oil dependence in»

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.

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While U.S. exports are soaring, its imports are falling - reducing its economic and political dependence on oil - producing nations in the Middle East and elsewhere.

It takes 96 % of resource revenue out of circulation and invests it outside Norway, in sectors unrelated to energy, as a counterweight to the country's oil dependence.

While oil - related dependence is down to 22 percent of 2015 government revenue from 35 percent in 2015, the country is still trying to squeeze more dividends out of state - owned oil and gas player Petronas, he said.

«It's really just calling out to the company, saying it has an important role to play in lowering our dependence on oil and appealing to the brand's fans and consumers to ask them to be the company we want them to be.»

These risks include, in no particular order, the following: the trends toward more high - definition, on - demand and anytime, anywhere video will not continue to develop at its current pace or will expire; the possibility that our products will not generate sales that are commensurate with our expectations or that our cost of revenue or operating expenses may exceed our expectations; the mix of products and services sold in various geographies and the effect it has on gross margins; delays or decreases in capital spending in the cable, satellite, telco, broadcast and media industries; customer concentration and consolidation; the impact of general economic conditions on our sales and operations; our ability to develop new and enhanced products in a timely manner and market acceptance of our new or existing products; losses of one or more key customers; risks associated with our international operations; exchange rate fluctuations of the currencies in which we conduct business; risks associated with our CableOS ™ and VOS ™ product solutions; dependence on market acceptance of various types of broadband services, on the adoption of new broadband technologies and on broadband industry trends; inventory management; the lack of timely availability of parts or raw materials necessary to produce our products; the impact of increases in the prices of raw materials and oil; the effect of competition, on both revenue and gross margins; difficulties associated with rapid technological changes in our markets; risks associated with unpredictable sales cycles; our dependence on contract manufacturers and sole or limited source suppliers; and the effect on our business of natural disasters.

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.

Meanwhile, continued development of shale oil and gas in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and elsewhere has helped reduce U.S. dependence on foreign energy and brought back thousands of manufacturing jobs.

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!

It's full of talk about freeing motorists in eastern Canada from their dependence on imported oil from volatile geopolitics locales such as Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Nigeria, and -LSB-...]

It's full of talk about freeing motorists in eastern Canada from their dependence on imported oil from volatile geopolitics locales such as Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Nigeria, and Venezuela.

And perhaps the biggest threat of all is the «keep it in the ground» movement, which if actually implemented, would erase the gains made in recent years and bring us back to an era of dependence on foreign sources of oil.»

Angola is Africa's second - largest oil producer behind Nigeria, and like its West African counterpart, where the slump in oil prices forced a reconsideration of its dependence on oil, Angola now faces the challenge of having to restructure its economy to reduce its vulnerability to oil shocks.

This listing will be the lynch pin in Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman's endeavors to wean the kingdom off its decades long dependence on oil.

BNN, the business news channel, ran an online poll Tuesday in advance of the latest fiscal update from Alberta: «Is Rachel Notley's NDP government doing enough to reduce Alberta's dependence on oil?»

They compare bananas to oranges and drive the debate away from the real issue — our unsustainable dependence on fossil fuels and the incredible environmental toll that multinational oil companies are enacting both overseas and in Alberta's oilsands.

Based on my interactions with subject - matter - experts, key stakeholders that work in the energy sector, and the Asian Development Bank, there is a strong push to reduce the region's dependence on imported oil, develop and grow its clean - tech sector, and diversify its energy mix.

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.

The move comes as car makers and investors are pumping in billions of dollars into the so - called new energy vehicle sector in China, the world's biggest auto market, which is preparing to roll out tough norms to promote the sector to fight urban smog and cut dependence on imported oil.

Uber, which has viewed the Middle East as an important area in its expansion, said the investment further aligned the company with Saudi Arabia as the kingdom planned to transform its economy, reducing its dependence on oil and improving employment.

Calling the United States «the biggest polluter and the biggest energy user in the world,» Turner said the country needs to take the lead in ridding itself of coal and oil 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.

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Living ecologically in the present moment may mean investigating one's own watershed, learning where one's food is grown, understanding one's dependence on economic use of trees and oil.

India should replace its dependence on Iranian oil through cooperation with America in nuclear - power production and cease its dependency on Russian airframe technology by buying advanced American military aircraft.

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.

Economic dependence on African oil extends to more than one hundred thousand jobs in the U.S., which are directly linked to African oil.

Resource - poor Japan has long been interested in tapping Africa's vast natural resources, even more so since dependence on oil and natural gas imports jumped after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster shut almost all of Japan's nuclear reactors.

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.»

We all know that the economy is in bad shape due to years of dependence on oil as the mainstay of our economy.

«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.»

A major factor in this high incidence of fuel poverty is lack of access to mains gas and dependence on more expensive oil as a heating fuel.

In addition, they promised to help Puerto Rico lessen its dependence on oil, create a bilateral trade agreement and propose a $ 5 million joint tourism campaign to boost travel between Puerto Rico and New York, with Cuomo noting that Puerto Rico and New York have faced similar economic and health care challenges.

During his 2013 State of the State address, Governor Andrew Cuomo laid out his ChargeNY plan to invest $ 50 million over five years in electric vehicle infrastructure to reduce air pollution, lower the cost of government and reduce dependence on imported 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 decadIn 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 decadin 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.

Kerry has said nothing about raising gasoline taxes in the campaign and very little about ending dependence on Middle Eastern oil.

Thanks to policies like those contained in the 2007 law, dependence on foreign oil has dropped by 25 percent since President Obama entered office.

To wit: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has said that some of his goals may have to be delayed, but reiterated that there are some things that «just can't wait,» such as his proposed $ 150 - billion investment in clean or sustainable energy programs (toward his goal of freeing the U.S. from dependence on foreign oil) and the attendant creation of five million «green collar» jobs.

«Basically, efficiency and reduced driving are in the ring with oil dependence, and they've struck a double blow against it.»

McCain is in favor of drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf federally controlled submerged land off all U.S. coasts (as opposed to state - controlled seabed)-- in order to lessen American dependence on foreign oil and lower gas prices.

In early 2007 he co-sponsored the Coal - to - Liquid Fuel Promotion Act of 2007 as a measure to lessen dependence on foreign oil by turning coal into automobile fuel.

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.

«We can break our dependence on oil... and become the first country to have one million electric vehicles on the road by 2015,» President Obama said in his January 2011 State of the Union address.

-- Energy technologies that exist or are under development could greatly increase energy efficiency in residences and businesses, reduce dependence on oil, accelerate the provision of energy services to the world's poor, increase the reliability and resilience of electricity grids, and shrink the impacts of energy supply on climate and other environmental values.

But we are running out of environment — that is, out of the capacity of the environment to absorb energy's impacts without risk of intolerable disruption — and our heavy dependence on oil in particular entails not only environmental but also economic and political liabilities.

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.