Sentences with phrase «oil imports during»

«Our political leaders won't even require Detroit to build fuel - efficient vehicles - which would not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions but also save consumers money and cut oil imports during a time of war in the Persian Gulf.»

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The possibility of Venezuelan oil import restrictions has divided White House advisors, and now is pitting Harold Hamm, chairman and CEO of Continental Resources and energy advisor during President Trump's campaign, against U.S. refiners that import Venezuelan crude to process at their refineries.

He said the other items the task force confiscated during special operations include 9,757 bags of rice, 2,916 cartons of foreign spaghetti, 2,770 cartons of imported vegetable oil and 999 cartons of macaroni.

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.

During South Africa's apartheid period, for example, the country could not import oil, so it gasified locally abundant coal to make gasoline.

And during an early April visit to Pennsylvania, Obama didn't directly answer a question about importing more oil sands from Canada.

And he stressed that while our economy still has to rely on oil and gas during that transition, we should rely more on domestic production than importing from foreign counties who do not have the same environmental or safety standards as the United States.

For the past quarter century, the country has seen its oil imports grow, and although relatively little has been done during these years to reverse that trend, that issue has dominated the energy debate.

The gift that is American energy is seen in some key numbers: domestic crude oil production reaching more than 9 million barrels per day last month, the highest level in more than two decades, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA); total U.S. net imports of energy as a share of energy consumption falling to their lowest level in nearly 30 years during the first six months of this year; gasoline prices dropping to an average of $ 2.47 per gallon last week, their lowest point since May 2009, according to the Lundberg Survey Inc..

During the early 1990s, Cuba saw a sharp decline in energy supply due to a cutoff of low - cost oil imports from the now - defunct Soviet Union.