Sentences with phrase «oil dependency»

With such large corporate profiles jumping on the bandwagon for electric, we can only hope that our future in oil dependency will be on a downward decline in the years to come.

«The hydrogen economy is the main key to solving oil dependency,» he says.

As that happens a natural gas dependency could just replace our current oil dependency.

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.

I have yet to join the True Believers who insist that hybrid vehicles are, flaws and all, the answer to our problems of oil dependency, global warming, pollution and the heartbreak of psoriasis.

«The nations of the world will need to use a wide range of strategies to reduce oil dependency,» Howe said.

He sees the emerging market as a problem if Americans trade oil dependency for battery dependency.

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.

Those who are paid agents of selfish interests and the enemies of the Nigerian economy will fail in their bid to distract the CBN and the Federal Government from their focus on the diversification of the Nigerian economy away from import and crude oil dependency.»

Imagine a future in which human beings have become immune to all viruses, in which bacteria can custom - produce everyday items, like a drinking cup, or generate enough electricity to end oil dependency.

Reliance on such fossil - fuel inputs not only sustains oil dependency but also represents a major water pollution problem when they run off into rivers.

In other words, perhaps I regret that Sandalow has focused on the catchy Freedom from Oil dependency when what we truly require is Freedom from Fossil Fuel dependencies.

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».

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.

«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.

Reduces oil dependency and oil politics; 3.

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.

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.

Nigeria and Angola, meanwhile, are looking to agriculture to reduce their oil dependency issues.

Around 700 naked cyclists each year protest the damage caused to the planet by cars and oil dependency.

Shai Agassi, who rethought the electric car, demonstrated that it is possible to move away from oil dependency.

However, if the university is located in a region with extreme weather and oil dependency is critical, then investing in the oil sector would be wise as a way to diversify or hedge.

Dan Ford's lush romantic paintings are both an homage to the 19th century painter Joseph Mallord William Turner and a wry comment on our contemporary conflicted relationship to oil dependency.

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.

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.

And so even if we reduce our oil dependency, and we're producing all these great electric cars, we're going to have to have a plan to change the way we generate electricity in America so that it's cleaner and safer and healthier.

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.

For instance, how is changing all our oil dependency to ethanol made from corn going to solve our crisis.

The bounty would equate to $ 1 for every man, woman and child in the country, «a small price to pay for helping to break the back of our oil dependency,» McCain said in remarks prepared for delivery Monday at Fresno State University in California.

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.

Although this would be a perfect opportunity for him to declare his own allegiance to both the environment and personal liberty, he instead implies that the only people who worry about «threats to civil liberty» are militant conservatives who want to «undermine public support for serious action to address America's oil dependency» yadda, yadda.

The Kinsale Town Council enthusiastically adopted the plan, and the principles underlying it became the precepts of Transition, as outlined in Hopkins» 2008 Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience and as adopted by Transition Towns worldwide.

The need to get off oil dependency is even more critical when we reflect on the fact that Vermont does not produce or refine any of its own petroleum, instead relying on out - of - state and out - of - country producers.

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.

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.